[ForGod'sSake]

The first state to actually CUT SPENDING in 50 years was/is a surprise.

[Kandy Atz]

I love Texas and enjoyed listening to all the liberal loonies crying in Austin about it!

[hinckley buzzard]

Three cheers for Texas. Let there be other states with courageous leadership to follow where they are leading.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Way to go TX. I do hope you are the first of many to follow.

[GeronL]

Apparently Alaska cut actual spending in 2009/2010 or something

[deport]

AUSTIN — Raising hopes that lawmakers can avert a midsummer special session, legislative leaders forged a little-time-to-spare budget agreement Friday that cuts government spending by $15 billion over the next two years.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/20/3092444/texas-lawmakers-agree-to-budget.html#ixzz1N6jYWpht

[Kimmers]

and the educators are crying foul !!!!!

I love TX....

[RockinRight]

A real, actual cut? Not a reduction in the rate of increase?

Maybe Perry for President ain’t such a bad idea after all.

[Huskrrrr]

Wow....and children and the elderly are not starving? Hear that California?!!!

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

“What happened in the Texas Legislature this session is more than just a victory for Texans. It’s a victory for America. Texas already leads the way in job creation, economic vitality, and economic liberty. Now Texas is leading the way in the most important cause facing our country: the need to live within our means.

“Today, in Austin, Texas, the men and women of our legislature showed it can be done. That’s a tremendous accomplishment for Texas – and it’s a shining beacon of hope for America.”

We salute you Texas

yellow rose of texas

[Professional Engineer]

Oh goody, now we’ll be barraged by the doom and gloom, “we’re gonna lose teachers” propaganda.

Meanwhile the construction of the $60 million hi-screwl foobah stadium in the neighborhood keeps going ...

[Lexinom]

This is not a reduction in the rate of growth, it is not a cut based on a proposed budget, it is not a series of accounting gimmicks, the State of Texas will actually spend less money next fiscal year than it did last year.

This is a big deal. Texans should rightly be proud of their state for this.

[peyton randolph]

Let’s not forget that Texas also just passed an Internet sales tax. All in the name of “Main Street” fairness. Funny how that fairness is actually being pushed by Wal-Mart (not Main Street) because Amazon is cleaning its clock. Wal-Mart also shoved through an Internet sales tax in its home state of Arkansas.

Before anyone gets teary-eyed over budget-cutting, let’s look at the taxes that were imposed to avoid real cuts, and the rainy day fund billions that were tapped to avoid cutting spending too.

Bunch of leftists pretending to be fiscal hawks.

[xzins]

Wow. Impressive. It makes Texas our most vital state and rivaling any other state in the diversity of its population, economy, and international reach.

Those responsible should be considered for national leadership.

Rick Perry would be great for America if he could bring that same insistence on reality to the national level.

[Sequoyah101]

I expect the reverie will be short-lived and end when the local governments find out how much appropriations have been cut and RAISE PROPERTY TAXES MORE and AGAIN.

First they raise appraisals even in a falling market then rates.

[CPT Clay]

Than you, thank you very much (Elvis)

[Monorprise]

Impressive.

[luvie]

Just another reason to love living in Texas!

So we have to scrimp a bit...we’ll survive and thrive! :)

The oil bidness is booming, and contrary to what the MSM and
the goons in DC think, their profits and revenue will re-fill
our coffers nicely, because we don’t demonize them here!