Posted on 08/14/2011 2:07:40 PM PDT by BereanBrain
I accept a little bit of slime and corruption as the cost of business. Palms get greased. Deals get made. That's life. You've got to weigh things realistically, imo. What you are basically asking for is an ethical racket. Ain't no such thing.
I'm not asking for perfection. I'm not looking for angels. Pretty much everyone dabbles in taking perks when they find them. I'm just asking for someone who is professional enough to keep it within reason, and manage things well.
And yet general fund spending fell. There are lies, damned lies and statistics. You seem to be unable to grasp the totality or complexity of government revenues and spending. You clearly are a publick skurle grad.
Who should he have endorsed in 2008?
You are right about that’s the way the “deal” gets done.
What you fail to realize is that we have “done the deals” to drive us to the edge of bankruptcy, and at some point “one more deal’ is the straw that breaks the camels back.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting different results.
If you don’t expect different results that what we have, why are you voting?
Both the mainline Dems and Repubs have spent us down the river.
It’s TIME for a change. and Rick Perry is NOT it.
Its not a mild growth, it’s higher than the federal growth rate, both of which are higher than inflation rates by 2-3x.ROTFLMAO! Uh no, try again. A ten year double is about 7%. Federal spending is grossly more. And when you subtract the revenue growth, the general fund spending is way lower. Sad. Treasure your day job. You are lucky to have it.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting different results.A Klintoon favorite.
It’s TIME for a change. and Rick Perry is NOT it.Do tell, who?
Texas is geographically, by population and size of economy one of the heavy hitters within the US. Texas by virtue of it’s size and share of the US economy / population will be a disproportionate large recipient of federal monies. What’s your argument?
Nobody
They're sure forgetting who the real enemy is.
Demanding perfection and kicking and screaming = more obama = total destruction of the USA.
Yeah, that's the ticket....but hey, at least we didn't put a RINO in office....we showed 'em!
Just wait until Palin announces, then you'll really see the fireworks, actually the PDS'ers are already here on this thread.
Obama 2012, seems to be the consensus here, cut off your nose to spite your face, step on your own d***k, whatever.
I gave my vote to McCain because I had to, (Palin made it much more palatable) but not because I wanted to.....looks like I'll be faced with a similar decision this time around too. ****sigh****
Rumors are that Giuliani will be declaring somtime soon.
Maybe Perry will endorse Giuliani again? (sarcasm)
I don’t fail to realize any of that. I just know that you can’t make an unethical business ethical. I vote because I have a choice. It’s small, and statistically meaningless, but it’s my little two cents. I want a competent executive who can do a good job. A perfect job? No. A squeaky clean job? No. A good job will do.
That’s ridiculous. We all had to make a choice. Evasion doesn’t get you out of it.
All we need in the Oval Office is someone who will not threaten default when the tea party republicans enforce fiscal discipline. Will Perry threaten a default?
So WHO IS YOUR CANDIDATE?
If you have posted it, I missed it.
Please enlighten me.
You are obviously mis-informed about being a net large recipient of federal income.
The highest return of dollars back to the stats are east and west coast, by far.
The south, and central, support these more metro states for such things as Amtrack, etc.
it also exposes that you think the federal government “has monies”. They take this money from the citizens of each state. Each state gets “some” or “most” back. Texas is in the “some” catagory. NY is in the “most”.
You keep posting your misleading figures, don't you? As I pointed out in an earlier post, population growth was 25% and aggregate inflation over that period actually came out to about 26%, for a total of 51%. The total Texas budget over that time grew about 85%. So the budget grew at about 3% per year after population and inflation. (You have to include the compounding affect of increases year by year. Thus, a 3% per year increase will result in about a 38.5% increase over 10 years.)
90% of the bonds currently being held by Texas are for self-satisfying debt (ie., debt that will eventually be paid off by the people for whom the debt was incurred). You do realize that Texas has a BBA and cannot incur debt without (1) public referendum via vote (2) capital improvements (3)self-satisfying debt.
Let me make this really easy for you to understand. Texas spent $3 Billion for a new cancer research center. The bond will be paid by the people who use the cancer research center. It will not be paid through increased taxes.
Texas spent several billion on student loans. Unlike the rest of the country, where jobs are few and far between, we have jobs. The bond for those student loans will be paid by the people who took the loans to get through college. It will not be paid for through tax increases.
Your inability to distinguish between non-satisfying and self-satisfying debt tells me you don't know what the heck you are talking about.
Only 10%, spread over approximately 10 years, is an unfunded increase in government services.
Please feel free to spread your nonsense all you want, but expect to be called on it.
I take your non answer to be a concession that unfunded federal mandates makebup a sizable part of those increases. Perry is the only texas governor to cut spending.
The Dream Act does not cost the state that much. And state hospitals are required by federal law to provide care to illegals when they show up in the emergency room. Perry ahs nothing to do with that.
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