{"id":18296,"date":"2013-09-18T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2013-09-18T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:15:41","slug":"texas-vs-california-update-for-september-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=18296","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. California Update for September 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Texas vs. California update:<\/p>\n<li>CalPERS decides commoners are <a href=\"http:\/\/city-journal.org\/2013\/cjc0821sg.html\">unworthy of knowing what their betters in the California state retiree system get paid<\/a>.\n<li>New California law to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/358552\/california-protects-pedophile-teachers-kevin-d-williamson\">shield pedophiles in teacher&#8217;s unions<\/a> in California each year, seven to eight times as much sexual misconduct takes place in public schools as in the Catholic Church.\n<li>I&#8217;ve often thought Texas would consider doing this: <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/08\/nevada-gives-california-greyhound-therapy\">Nevada gives mentally ill tickets to California<\/a>.\n<li>You know all those pieces on how &#8220;California is back?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/358251\/myth-california-renaissance-victor-davis-hanson\">Yeah, not so much.<\/a>\n<li>Because other states just aren&#8217;t getting enough businesses fleeing California, they&#8217;re moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/09\/12\/5728922\/jerry-brown-lawmakers-poised-to.html\">hike the minimum wage again<\/a>.\n<li>Sacramento Convention Center <a href=\"http:\/\/calwatchdog.com\/2013\/09\/17\/sacramentos-convention-center-money-pit\/\">loses $218 million over 14 years<\/a>.\n<li>California bends over backwards to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-ff-trust-act-20130917,0,6222259.story\">prevent jailed illegal aliens from being deported<\/a>.\n<li>What it&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/what-its-living-bankrupt-city\">living in bankrupt Stockton<\/a>: &#8220;Anderson called the police recently after a boy was shot riding his bike down the alley that runs alongside her home. It took them four hours to show up.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323324904579041640877085158.html\">Judge rejects CalPERS<\/a>, allows San Bernardino&#8217;s bankruptcy to proceed. Naturally CalPERS is incensed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/09\/04\/5704787\/san-bernardino-bankruptcy-ruling.html\">their golden pension goose could be cooked<\/a> along with everyone else.\n<li>California toll road agency misses overly optimistic projections, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-11\/california-toll-road-risks-biggest-default-since-detroit.html\">may have to declare bankruptcy<\/a>. &#8220;The Foothill-Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency, which operates 39 miles (63 kilometers) of toll highways in Orange County, risks default on $2.4 billion in debt.&#8221;\n<li>Rick Perry goes fishing for new businesses to relocate to Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbaltimore.com\/news\/features\/top-stories\/stories\/texas-governor-tempts-md-businesses-relocate-22271.shtml\">in Maryland<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kplr11.com\/2013\/08\/22\/texas-governor-using-nixon-veto-to-relocate-missouri-businesses-to-lone-state\/\">Also Missouri<\/a>, where the Democratic governor just vetoed a tax cut.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Texas vs. California update: CalPERS decides commoners are unworthy of knowing what their betters in the California state retiree system get paid. New California law to shield pedophiles in teacher&#8217;s unions in California each year, seven to eight times as much sexual misconduct takes place in public schools as in the Catholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,255,12,319,65,232],"tags":[406,1734,2013,478,200,2861,1029],"class_list":["post-18296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-economics","category-regulation","category-texas","category-unions","category-waste-and-fraud","category-welfare-state","tag-california","tag-calpers","tag-marylnd","tag-missouri","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas","tag-victor-davis-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18494,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}