California is the poorest state in the union, and Bill Maher is fairly stupid

The Census Bureau reported recently that 15 percent of California’s 38 million residents were living in poverty last year, the 20th highest rate in the nation. However, an experimental Census Bureau method of gauging poverty, which includes a cost-of-living factor, puts California’s rate at more than 23 percent, the nation’s highest. And now the Public Policy Institute of California, using a new measure that’s similar in thrust to the alternative Census Bureau method, places it at 22 percent, meaning more than 8 million Californians are poverty-stricken, 2 million more than the official number. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/01/5782918/dan-walters-californias-poverty.html#storylink=cpy

Well, we are also the second highest taxed, rank near the bottom on spending per pupil, have an unemployment rate rising and above average, and as of 2005, we lose 25% in the trade with DC. And they say being ruled by a bunch of apartheid, corrupt oligarchs is good for the economy.