{"id":19217,"date":"2014-01-08T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=19217"},"modified":"2014-01-09T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:50:34","slug":"texas-vs-california-update-for-january-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=19217","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. California Update for January 8, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another look at the respective fortunes of the nation’s two biggest states:<\/p>\n

  • Between 1992 and 2010, California lost $45.27 billion in income<\/a> while Texas gained $24.94B. (Hat tip: Moe Lane.)\n
  • That’s one of the many reasons Texas has a $2.6 billion budget surplus<\/a>.\n
  • California’s Attorney General imposes some strange language choices<\/a> on a proposed pension reform initiative.\n
  • California Governor Jerry Brown to shift money from a green “cap and trade” fund to the high speed rail boondoggle<\/a>. “Brown, et al., apparently believe that diverting cap-and-trade fees into the bullet train may buy enough time to move some dirt and lay some track, with the hope that once construction begins, it will create a moral\/political commitment to complete the project. But the proposed diversion is more likely to be dumping more money into a bottomless rathole.”\n
  • Remember: Spending money on green boondoggles means less is available for paying for luxuries like heating classrooms in winter<\/a>.\n
  • Desert Hot Springs inches closer to bankruptcy<\/a>. They’ve already eliminated their fire department, owe $4 million from last year, and are expected to run out of money in April.\n
  • How the California city of Pacific Grove broke the law and ignored voter wishes<\/a> to accumulate massive pension debts. “Pacific Grove now has a new unfunded pension deficit of about $45 million, in addition to the $20 million in pension bonds. The deficit grows at 7.5% per year (about $3.2 million compounding).” A neat trick for a city whose entire budget is around $12 million a year. The first in what promises to be a 7 part series.\n
  • Orange County employees enjoy a whole bunch of plush benefits<\/a>.\n
  • There’s a movement afoot in California to replace seniority with performance<\/a> for determining teacher layoffs. Another group wants to make it easier to fire sex offenders. Naturally teacher’s unions are opposing both. (Hat tip: TPPF<\/a>.)\n
  • California declares war on hot sauce maker Sriracha<\/a>.\n
  • Is California’s 10 day gun waiting period unconstitutional<\/a>? (Hat tip: Shall Not Be Questioned.)\n
  • Restaurant chain Mimi’s Cafe relocates their headquarters from California to Texas<\/a>.\n
  • There’s a lot of talk (not yet confirmed) that Vista Equity Partners is planning to move Active Network, Websense, and Omnitracs<\/a> to Texas.\n
  • Evidently Los Angeles can no longer support a WNBA team<\/a>. (Hat tip: Dwight<\/a>.)\n
  • Allied Van Lines confirmed that Texas remained the number one destination for relocation<\/a> in 2013.\n
  • 14 things non-Texans don’t understand.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Time for another look at the respective fortunes of the nation’s two biggest states: Between 1992 and 2010, California lost $45.27 billion in income while Texas gained $24.94B. (Hat tip: Moe Lane.) That’s one of the many reasons Texas has a $2.6 billion budget surplus. California’s Attorney General imposes some strange language choices on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,17,12,319,65,232],"tags":[2879,406,2864,2116,1593,2164,2861,2877,78,2875],"class_list":["post-19217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-democrats","category-texas","category-unions","category-waste-and-fraud","category-welfare-state","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-democrats","tag-desert-hot-springs","tag-jerry-brown","tag-pacific-grove","tag-texas","tag-unions","tag-waste","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217","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=19217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19231,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217\/revisions\/19231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}