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Here’s a list I hope some will question Perry about when he states how his state is run effieciently how about you try?

A 34 billion dollar budget deficit

•Texas Ranks #1 in population living below the poverty line ( 17.2 % ).

•Worst environmental record in the United States

•Ranks #1 in illiteracy

•Ranks #1 with the highest real estate taxes per $1,000 value of a home in the United States

•Ranks #1 in the lowest high school graduation rate

•Ranks #1 with the highest interest rates “pay day” companies can charge

•Ranks # 1 in those making below minimum wage.

•Ranks # 1 (26.5%) who lack health insurance

•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in Teacher Pay

•Ranks # 50th in $ spent for Medicaid for the poor and children

•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ spent on its citizens

•Ranks 2nd highest in teen births

•Ranks #2 with the highest home insurance rates

•Ranks #2 with the highest sales tax

•Ranks 49th in $ funded for the mentally ill

•Ranks #1 with the highest overall pollution rate

•Ranks #1 in adults under correctional control

•Ranks #1 in adults under probation

.....job creation in TX is because of the gas/oil boom