Commentary About a week ago, on April 21, the Los Angeles mayor released his $11.23 billion budget proposal for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The night before, Mayor Eric Garcetti gave his State of the City speech, offering some rationale for his budget. He called it “a financial document … but also a roadmap,” providing a vision of the city’s future. Within that vision, he made the claim that the capital improvement projects at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), The Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power—combined with the proposals he was making for the city-run budget—“are creating more than a million new jobs for our city.” The Epoch Times has made several requests with the mayor’s office in an attempt to better understand those job creation claims. It has not yet received a response. It is true that LAX and the Port of …