“...And we will say to every bureaucrat except our military and law enforcement: no salary increases until the federal budget is balanced. And because a president must lead by example, we should cut his salary in half until the budget is balanced.”...
http://www.rickperry.org/news/text-of-gov-perry-uproot-and-overhaul-washington-speech/
And why does Perry want to get rid the National Weather Service anyway?
Golly, Perry would have to limp along on $200,000 a year? Oh the humanity!
It's a joke. He talks about wanting to balance the budget and cut spending to 18% of GDP and offers not a single, concrete suggestion on how he's going to do it. Cut his salary in half? To bring current spending to 18% of GDP would require upwards of $2 trillion in spending cuts in the current year, and all he's offering is kill off the Weather Service and dump the Education department. When is he going to get serious?