Alaska is a big and wonderful state. I love it and have family there.
But you cannot compare 700,000 population to over 25 million living in Texas.
The Gardasil was not mandated - there was an online opt out.
Besides the fact that it never went into effect.
Perry is not for open borders.
Gov Palin supports Perry. She endorsed him when he was running for Governor.
I’m sorry, but OPT OUT or MANDATE is PerryCARE.
Got that?
It should have been OPT IN.
RINOs just don’t understand, do they?
Actually, you could compare the states. It’s hard to find the budget numbers for Alaska, because they get so much of their money from oil companies and give money to citizens and that sometimes counts as government expenditures and some people don’t.
One source says in 2007 the budget was 5.5 billion. That’s about $8000 per person. Texas is a bi-annual budget, but cutting it in half, in the 2008 budget worked out to a about $3,300 per person, less than half.
The thrust of this article would suggest they could be compared — neither has an income tax, and Alaska is largely funded by taxes on business, like this article tries to claim Perry did one time in 2006. Palin passed a bill which raised taxes on oil companies, don’t know if it was the “biggest tax increase” ever.
I think if we start comparing ever specific act of every candidate, we won’t find any that come away clean. I think it’s a silly way to judge candidates;
***The Gardasil was not mandated - there was an online opt out.
Besides the fact that it never went into effect.***
Please, please get your facts straight here. The opt-out was a religious exemption for ALL vaccines. You couldn’t avoid Gardasil and still have your daughter vaccinated against, say, measles. There is NO medical exemption for vaccines in Texas. Even if your daughter were allergic to a component in the vaccine and had a bad reaction to the first shot, you would’ve had to continue to give it to her. Your only alternative is was to lie and say that you didn’t want any vaccines on religious grounds.
I dealt with the school nurse, our family doctor and the local parents on this issue at the time. There were many of us up in arms. I had our own ‘opt out’ sheets printed and notarized, sitting in a file in case we needed it.
(Oh, one more thing. I was told that I couldn’t opt-out my daughter from the vaccines, but still get my son the normal MMR, polio, etc. because it would prove that we were lying. So the only way to avoid giving my daughter Gardisil was to stop vaccinating both of my children against all diseases. Our other option was homeschool and I was more than ready to pull the trigger on that one I can tell you.)
And it was not stopped because of Perry. It was stopped in spite of him. He was unapologetic until the end.
This is the one issue that conservatives cannot honestly defend. There are many other issues that are more ‘grey’ and can be debated, but not this one.
People might have been *saying* that you could opt-out at the time and you might have *thought* that you could at the time, but those of us who actually looked into *doing* it found out the true story.
The whole thing was a serious mess.