Texas spending kept rising for years with Perry as governor [Figures don't lie, but liars...]

Gov. Rick Perry's political stock has soared in recent months as he has traveled the country touting a decade of fiscal restraint in Texas under his leadership. Last month, Perry made Texas history by signing a two-year state budget that cuts overall spending for the first time in over 40 years.

Perry has long promoted the state's fiscal record as a model for the country and a key to why Texas has weathered the recession better than most other states. He has opposed new taxes and been vehemently anti-Washington, and his message is drawing interest among Republican primary voters nationwide.

Yet before the latest one, the Texas budget had consistently grown during Perry's time as governor, with total spending rising faster than inflation and population growth, state data show.

....Fed largely by state taxes and fees, general revenue has typically made up roughly half the Texas budget. It's the part of the budget that lawmakers spend most of their time arguing over during legislative sessions. Much of the rest of the budget is tied by provisions in federal law and the Texas Constitution.

When general revenue spending is examined by itself, the trends match better with the fiscal conservative image that Perry promotes. Though general revenue spending has grown with nearly every budget since Perry took office, it actually fell over the last decade an average of 0.6 percent every two years once those numbers are adjusted for inflation and the state's booming population growth. It rose during Bush's tenure.

"Obviously fiscal restraint is always something the governor has made a priority...He's the only Texas governor since World War II that has cut general revenue spending."

That distinction is one that Perry has touted repeatedly in recent years, from campaign commercials to the biography on the governor's office website..........

Texans spend about $100 Million a year of OUR state tax revenue toward protecting an INTERNATIONAL border that should be secured with Federal funds.
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exactly.
Maybe Perry should be more anti-illegals.
but, in all fairness to Perry, the costs of illegal immigrants, has been going up much faster than inflation.

...i don’t know the stats for TX, but i read that in CA, illegals cost the state 25 billion a year.
if TX is anything close to that, Perry could have done a lot with that money, that he was forced to pay to support people, the Feds allowed here illegally.

and i think Perry is wrong on some things, but at least he hasn’t flat-out lied, and denied things. So at least he has more integrity than some others. (and he didn’t quit his church, just to run.) i’d vote for him.

(however, dusttoyou is wrong about gardrasil. it was a bad mistake by Perry. but, Perry did a lot of good, and noone is perfect. and undoubtedly Perry was lied to and misled by the drug company. (one of the Dr’s developing it later admitted it does more harm than good...)
but again, Perry is a proven leader, with few mistakes.
and again, i’d vote for him.)

You mis-understood my sarcasm about Guardisil to those Perry Derangement Syndrome “coyotes”.

Obviously CW’s groupies (PDS coyotes) could not say much and went off yelping somewhere else dreamin about ronpaul.

Perry, like any politican, especially while the longest serving Texas Governor, has not done everything right, but has been the most conservative Governor we have had GOP or dem.

I would really like to see the GOP ticket be Palin-Perry, which could and WOULD move America back away from the brink starting us back toward commonsense.

There is a "follow up" graphic and link to a spread sheet to this article:

Texas spending under Bush and Perry in one graph*Budget figures for the 2010-11 and 2012-13 budgets are estimated. Source: Legislative Budget Board and the Comptroller of Public Accounts. Adjusted figures for the just-passed 2012-13 budget are not yet available.

Trends in Texas Gov Expenditures spread sheet used to create the graphic.

RE the graphic: You have to *click* on an arrow to see what the yellow line is (Odd there wasn't enough room to put the meaning of the blue, the red and the yellow on one page).

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GE said Tuesday that it will likely spend $500million on research and development and new customer innovation centers, adding more than 1,000 new jobs. More than $1.5billion is expected to be put toward new joint ventures with Chinese state-owned enterprises in high-technology sectors.

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