Texas under Perry: He’s a RINO, don’t be fooled!
• $13.4B dollars in debt.
• 51st in issuing High School diplomas (even behind Puerto Rico).
• Texas is #49 in verbal SAT scores in the nation (493) and #46 in average math SAT scores (502).
• The Lone Star State ranked third in the nation between 2000 and last year in receipt of federal dollars, raking in aid and contracts worth more than $1.2 trillion.
In March Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would have expanded unemployment benefits for Texans. Perry argued at the time that accepting the stimulus dollars would force the state to expand eligibility to include thousands of low-wage workers — including part-time employees like single mothers, college students and senior citizens — which Perry bemoaned would burden tax payers with “higher taxes and expanded obligations.” When explaining the decision, Perry told Fox News, “this was pretty simple for us.”
But now Perry is reversing his decision. Texas has asked the federal government for a $170 million loan to ensure the state is able to continue paying out unemployment benefits:
Texas is now asking the federal government for a $170 million loan so that benefits keep getting paid.
Texas is expected to request $650 million, roughly $100 million more than Perry initially rejected. At a “tea party protest” in April, Perry trumpeted his decision to reject stimulus dollars from the Obama administration. “I believe the federal government has become oppressive,” he said, adding that he might even consider seceding from the Union.
Now he has turned that all around. He’ll turn even further to the left if he happens to win the nomination.
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I honestly don’t see any president doing what we need them to do, so it really doesn’t matter. If we are going to win this war against Big Government I doubt very much the actual fighting will be in Washington.
We are instead going to have to undercut and cripple Washington from the outside. To that end it really doesn’t matter whom we elect as long as it is someone not predisposed to resist us we might have an easier time.