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The increase in the rate of spending in Texas for the past two decades has been more than double the combined increase in population and inflation. (Source). If total state and local debt are combined, Texas ranks number 5 following NY, CA, IL and PA. (Source) Texas fiscal health is not as good as generally perceived and the trends are not good.
1 posted on 01/05/2014 5:55:30 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
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To: JeepersFreepers

Corporatists going all out it seems.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 6:00:43 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: JeepersFreepers

And what’s the bet that union money is behind some of this as well. We’re onto you Karl Rove!


3 posted on 01/05/2014 6:01:19 PM PST by Viennacon (Right vs. Left...... is Right vs. Wrong!)
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To: JeepersFreepers
Crony capitalism on steroids.
We "got ours," so screw small business and blue-collar America.

4 posted on 01/05/2014 6:01:57 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: JeepersFreepers

They ain’t republicans

But they’z queers....


5 posted on 01/05/2014 6:03:56 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Waco enablers


6 posted on 01/05/2014 6:04:20 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: JeepersFreepers

corporations want bigger govt and higher taxes??

yea, that makes sense


7 posted on 01/05/2014 6:07:33 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Look at the economic development fund. Every state has one and every one gives taxpayer money to private business.


9 posted on 01/05/2014 6:07:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JeepersFreepers

snip

The Texas Future Business Alliance — a mix of 10 major business groups,
including the chemical industry, bankers, builders and contractors — is
sending out mailers and providing other support on behalf of GOP candidates
who have supported water infrastructure development, highway construction
and education spending.

end snip

They can be player statewide with money in many races involving the Texas Legislature.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 6:08:23 PM PST by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like you haven’t been told the truth about the economy in Texas.

I’ve read elsewhere that the economy in Texas is based on cheap illegal alien labor, both in the agriculture and construction sectors.


11 posted on 01/05/2014 6:09:05 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Good article, all around. Thanks. Watching the establishment’s sting at being nailed as establishment is satisfying.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 6:09:32 PM PST by txhurl
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To: GeronL

Ping.


13 posted on 01/05/2014 6:11:56 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: JeepersFreepers; BlackElk

Turning red states blue is suicide, but the corporates who benefited from American capitalism have turned the corner on America’s economic health and even on her best interests, partnered with and sometime sold out to globalists, until who hasn’t thrown in with the globalists is an ever shrinking number.

Conservative big pockets are about to get picked, bought and sold, until this Republic folds up and cooperates. When Texas implodes, I wonder what’s left short of,......you-know-what.

Before long we may be down to Smith & Wesson, Duck Dynasty markets, and chicfilet franchises.


16 posted on 01/05/2014 6:14:28 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: JeepersFreepers; All

All the Business Socialists and Free Trader Communists know the Tea Party can end their taxpayer funded schemes

Sad that most of the wealthy and corporates are the biggest Socialists around


20 posted on 01/05/2014 6:26:06 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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To: JeepersFreepers

They are coming for us. They are our biggest enemy. Well ya know what? It ain’t gonna work.


24 posted on 01/05/2014 6:30:15 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: JeepersFreepers

Well, it is only a Democracy - or Republic as it really is when both the people and the business institutions are working together. When business and government get into business together, well - maybe the end is near.

Of course if most of the people rise up in disagreement against both business and government, well, revolution is possible.


26 posted on 01/05/2014 6:31:46 PM PST by Deagle (ues)
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To: JeepersFreepers

We lowered their taxes and suddenly big governement is more of a scource of income then a tax burden. It didn’t work out the way we thought it would.


28 posted on 01/05/2014 6:34:23 PM PST by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing Corksucker.)
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To: JeepersFreepers
“They want people who will vote for cronyism and corporate welfare."

Yep. That about sizes it up. Both parties the same there.

33 posted on 01/05/2014 6:50:03 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: JeepersFreepers

IOW, get the conservatives fighting each other so the rats can take over. Got’cha.


41 posted on 01/05/2014 7:07:06 PM PST by bgill
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To: JeepersFreepers; Foundahardheadedwoman; All

HEY! AUSTIN MAFIA! YEAH, YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Impeach Obama in 2014. Period.

The US House of Representatives is analogous to a Police Force - - - their main job of Check and Balance is to “arrest” the perp by Impeaching the perp.

The US Senate is analogous to a Jury of Peers who have the power to throw the Impeached perp off of the taxpayer gravy train, take away his residence, ban him from building a Library paid for by us, and ban him from using his personal Corporate Jet, Air Force One.

Most RINO Americans want to wait, Wait, WAIT! until they control the House, the Senate and the White House.

To those weak-kneeded summer soldier “patriots” I say “Enjoy the Obamanation that you have tolerated since January, 2009.”

In similar manner, we Summer Soldier Conservatives continue to tolerate a wimpy, hand-wringing, sobbing, crybaby Speaker of the House Boehner as our sorry chief policeman.

“Oh, if only my best friends across the aisle would just play nicey nice - - - “ is the perfect quote that fire-in-the-belly Socialist-Democrats love to hear from their doormat, cowardly, Obamacrat RINOs.

Yes indeed, as long as we WAIT for things to be PERFECT we will never attack those whose goal is to destroy the US Constitution.

Suck it up you sorry House RINOs, and replace John “Benghazi Coverup” Boehner with SC Rep Trey Gowdey, or SC Rep Joe Wilson.

Without a fire-in-the-belly Republican Speaker of the House, Obamacrat RINOs will continue to cave in to “their best friends across the aisle,” to the unbridled glee of every Democrat voter in America!

House RINOs: Pretend that you are paid by taxpayers to fight to enforce the US Constitution.

Fight or go home, House RINOs.

FIGHT or we will send you home!

Impeach Obama in 2014. Period.

_________________________

The RINO Establishment has been, is now, and forever will be a spineless relic that is incapable of protecting the US Constitution.

Commie Obama came in 1-2009, and by 12-24-2009 he had Nationalized one sixth of the US Economy.

Now, four YEARS later, loyal RINO Establishment stalwarts estimate that it will take a generation (20-25 years) to undo what Commie Obama did in eleven MONTHS.

What does it take for the Loyalist RINOs to draw a line in the sand?

As for concern about “loss of political capital” and other Leftstream Media manipulating tactics, when in the next 20 to 25 years would be a good time for y’all to consider to begin to commence thinking about draining the swamp full of Leftstream Media “alligators?”

There are more of us than there are of them, so grow a pair and FIGHT the Left Stream Media!

Remember this: Commie Obama is counting on never being held accountable for his violations of the US Constitution.

BTW, Boehner and McConnell have done their best to not hold Commie Obama accountable for 4 years.

Thus, support for the RINO Establishment is to continue to endorse the Boehner-McConnell protection from accountability plan for Commie Obama.

REMEMBER, AUSTIN MAFIA: Hitler also was elected by “The People.”


47 posted on 01/05/2014 8:42:32 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Who do we boycott??


56 posted on 01/06/2014 3:40:37 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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