Rick Perry is far from a Saint. Like all the other candidates and possible candidates.
Do you have the source for that previous graphic? I was interested in seeing the actual numbers and what the total added up to. Not trying to debate it in any way, just my own curiosity about the total from the feds.
Its from recovery.gov but I don’t see anything wrong with the numbers aside from the problems we already know. In fact the real issues appear when you zoom in. For instance, 5.5 million dollars awarded to Michigan only produced some 10,000 jobs (many of those were census jobs)
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Paying taxes is no excuse for having a hand out. Its like a crack addict asking the crack dealer to keep giving him crack that he’s already paid for. The cycle has to be broken, not justified and perpetuated.
As far as immigration is concerned, we can’t afford another “flawed” candidate. If there are 30 million illegals in America, that’s enough to populate more than 50 congressional districts. Those here are an enormous burden on our economy and if allowed to stay and bring their extended families they will be the cause of a permenent democrat majority.