California legislators travel to Texas to learn how to create a job. Some lawmakers backed out at the request of public employee unions-Fund

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"Several Democrats who agreed to go on the Texas trip were pressured by public-employee unions to drop out—and many did,"...

April 22, 2011, "California Dreamin'—of Jobs in Texas," Wall St. Journal, John Fund

• "Hounded by taxes and regulations, employers in the once-Golden State are moving East."

"The contrast is undeniable. Texas has added 165,000 jobs during the last three years

• while California has lost 1.2 million.

California's jobless rate is 12% compared to 8% in Texas....

""You can't build in California, you can't manage in California and you have to pay a big tax," Mr. Puzder told the legislators. "In Texas, it's the opposite—

• which is why we're building 300 new stores there this year."...

Other states are even snatching away parts of California's entertainment industry. The Milken Institute, based in Santa Monica, Calif., reports that 36,000 entertainment jobs have left the state since 1997. The new film "Battle: Los Angeles," which is set in California,

• was filmed in Louisiana. ...

Several Democrats who agreed to go on the Texas trip were pressured by public-employee unions to drop out—and many did. And just as Texas business leaders were testifying about how the state's tort reforms had improved job creation, word came of California's latest priority: On April 14, the state senate passed a bill

• mandating that all public school children learn the history of disabled and gay Americans."...

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