{"id":23556,"date":"2015-05-21T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2015-05-21T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:19:53","slug":"texas-vs-california-update-for-may-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23556","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. California Update for May 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another Texas vs. California update:<\/p>\n

  • “March marked a phenomenal run of 99 consecutive months when Texas\u2019 unemployment rate was at or below the national average<\/a>.” Also: “Texas employs an impressive two and a half times more people since December 2007 than the rest of the nation combined.”\n
  • The Texas state legislature is on the verge of passing an actual conservative budget<\/a>.\n
  • Will Franklin looks at local bond debt in Texas<\/a>. It’s creeping up, partially due to big government advocates scheduling off-year bond elections when fewer people are voting. Even so, voters seem willing to reject big-ticket bond items.\n
  • San Bernardino’s bankruptcy plan<\/a>: CalPERS gets theirs, bondholders get screwed.\n
  • And San Bernardino is planning to outsource their firefighting operations<\/a>, not least of which because the fire department sucks up $7 million worth of overtime a year. And the fact their union stopped participating in bankruptcy talks didn’t help… (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • How a few wealthy California environmentalists give the illusion of a mass movement<\/a>.\n
  • How retroactive pension increases<\/a> destroyed California budgets. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • California is a victim of repeated short-sighted thinking<\/a>.\n
  • Los Angeles joins the minimum wage hike bandwagon<\/a>. Expect another wave of small business closure stories over the next few months…\n
  • Why public employee unions are the elephant in the room<\/a> for California’s debt crisis. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • California’s majority Democrats shelve legislative transparency bill<\/a> written by Republican. This is my shocked face.\n
  • Compton teachers get laid off<\/a>, Do-Da, Do-Da…\n
  • “In another corporate exodus from Torrance, California, to North Texas, Kubota Tractor Corp. and Kubota Credit Corp. announced Thursday that they will move their headquarters to Grapevine<\/a> from the Los Angeles area.”\n
  • “The number of young adults admitted to California hospital emergency rooms with heroin poisoning<\/a> increased sixfold over the past decade.” (Hat tip: Cal WatchDog<\/a>.)\n
  • The Weinstein Company hit with $130 million lawsuit<\/a>. File under: Hollywood Accounting.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Time for another Texas vs. California update: “March marked a phenomenal run of 99 consecutive months when Texas\u2019 unemployment rate was at or below the national average.” Also: “Texas employs an impressive two and a half times more people since December 2007 than the rest of the nation combined.” The Texas state legislature is on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,102,17,255,12,319,232],"tags":[66,406,1734,2872,2864,477,2757,2876,1744,2861,2629,1411,2877,2875,1440],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-crime","category-democrats","category-regulation","category-texas","category-unions","category-welfare-state","tag-bankruptcy","tag-california","tag-calpers","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-environmentalism","tag-grapevine","tag-regulation","tag-san-bernardino","tag-texas","tag-texas-84th-legislative-session","tag-texas-public-policy-foundation","tag-unions","tag-welfare-state","tag-willisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","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=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23709,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions\/23709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}