Texas benefited from a good economy and oil.
What did Rick do?
In 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That’s NEARLY DOUBLED the size of government during Perry’s Tenure.
Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system.
Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore’s campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when “apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck’s hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work.”
RINO enough, Big Government enough for you, or do you want to go into his “open border” flip flops?
It's lame argument and intellectually dishonest one. Spending in Texas over TEN years went up because of combination of inflation and population growth in the state primarily.
Learn, love it and live it:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5589438.html
WASHINGTON — The Texas state government spends less money per resident than any other state in the country, according to a new survey that also ranks Texas as the fourth best-run state in the nation.
Texas spent $3,638 per year for each person in the state, according to the report — less than one-third the amount of top spender Alaska's $12,833.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/01/11/budget_to_put_texan_self_sufficiency_to_the_test/
Texas spends less per resident than any other state.
STOP LYING ABOUT PERRY.