{"id":4085,"date":"2013-03-21T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2013-03-21T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:32:04","slug":"leftist-bias-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/leftist-bias-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist bias vs. reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a tech podcast where a couple of California were making fun of Texas Governor Rick Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s compare Texas under the leadership of Gov. Perry to California under Governor Moonbeam.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/laus\/laumstrk.htm\">unemployment for January 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas: 6.3%<\/p>\n<p>California: 9.8%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t15.htm\">The federal U3 rate for January was 7.9%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Texas was under the national rate by 1.3% while California was over the national rate by 1.9%<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at job growth in Texas vs. California, and population shifts.\u00a0 The people California needs to pay its criminally high tax rates are leaving California.\u00a0 One of the more popular destinations of those fleeing Governor Moonbeam&#8217;s socialist paradise is Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the tech reporters in question were laughing based on their leftist political bias, and not economic reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a tech podcast where a couple of California were making fun of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Let&#8217;s compare Texas under the leadership of Gov. Perry to California under Governor Moonbeam. Let&#8217;s start with unemployment for January 2013 Texas: 6.3% California: 9.8% The federal U3 rate for January was 7.9% So Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,50,19],"tags":[141,181,294,480,536,574,621,753,765],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-obama-economy-politics","category-politics","tag-barking-moonbat","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-moonbat","tag-obama-economy","tag-politics","tag-taxes","tag-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-13T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}