Perry turns down nat'l edu. funds
“If Washington were truly concerned about funding education with solutions that match local challenges, they would make the money available to states with no strings attached,” he said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejects stimulus money for jobless claims
Gov. Rick Perry , joining a handful of his fellow Southern Republican leaders, said Thursday that he was rejecting $556 million in federal stimulus money for unemployed Texans because it had too many strings attached.
The "nuclear option" would be for Perry to declare that Texas would no longer have any sort of welfare program, other than providing a proposed welfare recipient with a free bus ticket to DC.