This morning the governor issued the obligatory congratulatory press release praising the San Francisco Giants’ World Series win. But he didn’t stop at simply congratulating his state’s winning baseball team: he went on to attack the home state of the defeated Texas Rangers. Schwarzenegger used his press release to not only do some inappropriate campaigning against Proposition 23, he attacked Texas for having “dirty oil companies”.
Finally, Schwarzenegger shouldn’t be talking smack about a state that is kicking California’s tail when it comes to economic prosperity. The Texas Public Policy Foundation just released a report that shows Texas is smoking California. According to the report, “Texas created 129,000 new jobs in the last year—over one-half of all the new jobs in the U.S. In contrast, California lost 112,000 jobs during the same period.” And unlike California, Texas is protecting its economy from nonsensical EPA rules that will kill even more jobs.
So gloat all you want about winning the World Series and imposing your job-killing environmental rules, Governor Schwarzenegger, but there’s a reason more people are moving out of California and choosing to live in Texas.
Congratulations, Governor Perry and the State of Texas, for actually knowing how to create prosperity for your citizens.