*Must read* Cali spending vs Texas spending (Houston, San Antonio: health insurance, tech jobs)

[Spacecityroller]

“The governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the governor’s dog, then bites the governor. The governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie Bambi and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
“He calls animal control. Animal control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 for testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the state $200 for testing it for diseases. The governor goes to the hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and getting his bite wound bandaged.
“The running trail gets shut down for six months while the California Fish and Game Department conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals. The governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a ‘coyote awareness program’ for residents of the area. The Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
“The governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training, re: the nature of coyotes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state. “The governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and tries to attack him and his dog. The governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.
“The governor spent 50 cents on a .380-caliber, hollow-point cartridge. Buzzards ate the dead coyote.
“And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.”

The U.S. Can Grow If We All Act Less Like California, More Like Texas - Forbes

This whole article is must read material.

[CAHomeschoolMom]

Loved it! Posted the link on my FB page . Thanks!

[likeeveryoneelse]

so the moral of the story is that if we all just shot more stuff the world would be a better place?

[cp102]

I love this story it shows common sense compared to the insanity of our world. We do studies for everything, its a huge cost of money and who ends up paying... the taxpayer. Common sense says if your out walking near wildlife you may encounter it so take proper precautions or don't go walking there.

[padcrasher]

Texans bragging about creating more low wage jobs with no insurance benefits.

Come back when you can match California's household income income rates which are 20% higher, their higher per capita GDP, the higher rates of health insurance.

You create $10 per hour Mcjobs, and your workers use the ER as their family doctor and you brag about.

You should start a thread on all the great "growth" that Somalia is undergoing, using your dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, anti-worker economic system.

Hey you do almost lead the nation in teenage pregnancy rates. So I'm sure that will help your "job growth" for years to come.

And you lead the Nation along with Mississippi in percent of minimum wage jobs....Yea!

I want to live in San Jacinto City and flip burgers with one your awesome jobs!

http://americanindependent.com/18904...ow-paying-ones

Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers, while California had among the fewest (less than 2 percent).

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Spacecityroller

The U.S. Can Grow If We All Act Less Like California, More Like Texas - Forbes

This whole article is must read material.

Not every state in the US has lots of oil, lots of military spending (San Antonio, Killeen, El Paso), one of the biggest ports in the country and lots of cheap immigrant labor from Mexico.

You can keep on thinking that it is because of "Conservative values"
but the main reason for Texas economy being good is = Oil

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by padcrasher

Texans bragging about creating more low wage jobs with no insurance benefits.

Come back when you can match California's household income income rates which are 20% higher, their higher per capita GDP, the higher rates of health insurance.

You create $10 per hour Mcjobs, and your workers use the ER as their family doctor and you brag about.

You should start a thread on all the great "growth" that Somalia is undergoing, using your dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, anti-worker economic system.

Hey you do almost lead the nation in teenage pregnancy rates. So I'm sure that will help your "job growth" for years to come.

And you lead the Nation along with Mississippi in percent of minimum wage jobs....Yea!

I want to live in San Jacinto City and flip burgers with one your awesome jobs!

WSJ lauds Texas economy, marked by jobs (including a lot of low-paying ones) | The American Independent

Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers, while California had among the fewest (less than 2 percent).

Minimum wage beats not having a job though. I mean it's not like it's a thousand Texans moving to Cali.Somethings wrong up there for so many to move down here.

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by padcrasher

Texans bragging about creating more low wage jobs with no insurance benefits.

Come back when you can match California's household income income rates which are 20% higher, their higher per capita GDP, the higher rates of health insurance.

You create $10 per hour Mcjobs, and your workers use the ER as their family doctor and you brag about.

You should start a thread on all the great "growth" that Somalia is undergoing, using your dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, anti-worker economic system.

Hey you do almost lead the nation in teenage pregnancy rates. So I'm sure that will help your "job growth" for years to come.

And you lead the Nation along with Mississippi in percent of minimum wage jobs....Yea!

I want to live in San Jacinto City and flip burgers with one your awesome jobs!

WSJ lauds Texas economy, marked by jobs (including a lot of low-paying ones) | The American Independent

Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers, while California had among the fewest (less than 2 percent).

That may be true, but there is more going on than min. wage jobs in Texas. Lets start out with the oil boom in South & West Texas, a hospital boom in San Antoino, DFW, & Houston. Austin is hiring people for more tech jobs, Texas as a whole is hiring for manufacturing laborers.

[RCH99]

Originally Posted by padcrasher

I want to live in San Jacinto City and flip burgers with one your awesome jobs!

......wishful thinking, but doubt you're qualified.

[padcrasher]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

That may be true, but there is more going on than min. wage jobs in Texas. Lets start out with the oil boom in South & West Texas, a hospital boom in San Antoino, DFW, & Houston. Austin is hiring people for more tech jobs, Texas as a whole is hiring for manufacturing laborers.

The ONLY reason Texas is seeing job growth versus at the expense of other States is that the labor costs are lower. We're just out in front in a race to the bottom. Lowering pay, lowering benefits, lowering workers rights. What the OP is bragging about is the same argument China could make because they pay and treat their workers like trash. And can pollute their air/water at will. Texas is 47th in the nation in per capita education spending so it's not like the we're using brain power to create jobs like Californians do.

What Texas does to get this job growth, is harmful in the long run to families and middle class standards of living. It will level out when other States have 99% of their workers at serf wages, and 1% thriving like Robber Barons.