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The thing about Texas is that the toons in Austin only have so much time to stick their fingers in the public pocket. Thank goodness that they only meet every other year. bBecause of this and because of the way Texas was structured from the beginning it makes it very hard to start up new gangs of bureaucrats. Many in the Texas Legislature don't like doing so and neither does the public. Let's say, for example, that via executive order the Gov. decides to build a new gang that injects drugs in to kids. And that it costs millions and will continue to cost millions of taxpayer money and employ a bunch of bozos to administer. Well, that dog don't hunt. As Perry found out.

Not so in California. Those folks are making and baking laws and bureaucrats all the time. Take you list of Texas agencies you link to and compare it to Kalifornia State Agencies

California has created every-growing after ever-growing monsters. It has eaten itself. Not the case in Texas. And not because of Rick Perry. The fact is that Texas in 1977 created something that checks the growth of these agencies. The Sunset Law provides a method where we don't have agencies run amock.

They say that things start in California and run across the country. I'd suggest that California look at Texas and learn from us. And if you imagine that Rick Perry was Gov. of California instead of Texas California would be no different today because of that. Not so in Texas. It is because of the structure here that we are in such good shape compared to other states. That is the key. Not Perry. Or Bush or most past govenors for that matter.....

Gov. Rick Perry's FORMULA:

First! Don't spend all the money!

Second! Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!

Third! A legal system that doesn't allow for over suing (lawsuit abuse) and make loser pay (no more jackpot justice).

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Texas - The Job Engine [LA Times OpEd - July 3, 2011] "....At the same time — and this, of course, is the tough part for those on the left to swallow — it is clear that the state's limits on taxes, regulations and lawsuits are contributing to the job machine. "The most important thing I think that's happened to us is tort reform," Fisher, the Dallas Fed president, has said. He added that when John Deere and other companies have decided to hire in Texas, they've been largely driven by steps the state has taken to cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice suits and to make it harder to bring product liability and class-action cases..."

For those whose knee-jerk instinct is to dump on such logic, they would do well here to consider the source. Fisher served in President Carter's Treasury Department and as a high-ranking trade official for President Clinton, and was a two-time Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Although the former investment banker is certainly not an ardent leftie, he is no right-wing zealot either."