California has long had a tenuous grasp of what the rest of us regard as consensus reality. But two new pieces of legislation suggest they’ve gone off the deep end into full Victimhood Identity Politics land:<\/p>\n
Of course, that’s not all that’s new on the Texas vs. California front:<\/p>\n
The lowest paid average workers represented agencies focused on the environment, women and people with disabilities. According to the state\u2019s 2014 payroll data, the average salary for the 11 state employees at the California Commission on Disability Access was just $15,213 per year, slightly more than the $14,494 average salary paid to the four employees at the Commission on the Status of Women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There is no California<\/a>. Only Zuul…\n Texas unemployment rate: 4.2%. California unemployment rate: 6.2%.<\/a> (Hat tip: WILLism’s Twitter feed<\/a>.)\n Los Angeles’ new minimum wage has wrecked hotel employment<\/a>. Or maybe just non-illegal alien employment… (Hat tip: Moe Lane<\/a>.)\n Why Public Services in California Decline Even As Revenues Rise<\/a>. “Until California\u2019s leaders address the three elephants \u2013 retirement, healthcare and corrections costs \u2014 that are crowding out public services and causing unproductive tax and fee increases, citizens will continue to suffer and inequality will continue to grow.” (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n Chuck Devore on what makes Texas friendly to business<\/a>: less red tape and lower taxes.\n Voters to San Jose City Council: We want pension reform! San Jose City Council to voters: Get stuffed!<\/a> (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n TV’s CHiPS never seemed to be involved in ethics scandals<\/a> the way the current administration is, including no-bid contracts to European companies. (Bonus: it’s also suitable for Dwight’s Art Acevedo watch.)\n California’s “Green Jobs Initiative” spent $297 million to create 1,700 jobs<\/a>.\n More on the same theme<\/a>, and Tom Steyer wasting $29.6 million of his own money pushing it, from City Journal.\n California’s SFX: from billion dollar company to bankruptcy<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" California has long had a tenuous grasp of what the rest of us regard as consensus reality. But two new pieces of legislation suggest they’ve gone off the deep end into full Victimhood Identity Politics land: First, they decided that police shootings wouldn’t be subject to the grand jury process, because what’s a little things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":27,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,422,102,17,2463,12,319,65,232],"tags":[354,2879,406,1689,2872,2864,477,63,2637,1838,624,1354,2881,2861,2252,2877,78,2875],"class_list":["post-24410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-budget","category-crime","category-democrats","category-social-justice-warriors","category-texas","category-unions","category-waste-and-fraud","category-welfare-state","tag-border-controls","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-chuck-devore","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-environmentalism","tag-fraud","tag-minimum-wage","tag-pension-crisis","tag-political-correctness","tag-san-jose","tag-social-justice-warriors","tag-texas","tag-tom-steyer","tag-unions","tag-waste","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410","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=24410"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24501,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions\/24501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}