And I expect a lot of voters will too, as well as his longstanding positions against over regulation and litgation with, among others, the EPA and trial lawyers.
Rick Perry’s Air War (with the EPA)...........>>>Texas alone opted for the unfriendly approach. It’s the only state that did not issue a plan for compliance—and Perry has made it clear that Texas has no intention of complying. The move was a blatant slap to the Obama administration—and once again gave Perry the national spotlight. Defying the climate rules offered him the perfect opportunity to loudly decry the science of global warming—which in his book Fed Up! he calls a “contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”—and to slam EPA as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind-set” that has “targeted Texas.” Such rhetoric is viral catnip to the tea party voters who could help catapult Perry to the 2012 presidential nomination.<<<..............
Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.
And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.
That’s a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors. …..”
Why of course. Just think how much money taxpayers would save if he limited the government subsidy of tuition to illegal immigrants to those who studied for this bargain degree?
I don’t know whether to credit Perry or the Republican legislature of Texas, but we had medical tort reform a few years ago and the number of doctors practicing in this state has risen faster than inflation. Doctors have moved here and set up practice faster than others.
When my grandson lost his Navy scholarship and commission at the last minute because he was colorblind, my son took all of the scholarship money he had accumulated over four years, and went to local med schools to see if they could get him in. It was a considerable amount of money in the six figures. The upshot was that when he got his medical degree, he would ONLY owe $80,000 and his Dad would ONLY owe $60,000. Whatta deal! The schools were eager to take him.
Fortunately Sen. Lugar helped him get around the exclusion and got him an Army commission and scholarship. He just arrived at Ft. Bennington for his basic training and will enter med school school in January.
He won’t get to go to the Naval Academy like he’d planned (his Dad was Navy) but it’s still a good deal. Both the Naval Academy and now Purdue were both happy to take the scholarship dollars.
Kids almost have to make a career starting at the end of 8th grade of qualifying for scholarship money. And if they work hard and achieve their academics, the last year of high school they can take courses with dual credit, which saves them almost a year of books and tuition.
One of the problems today is that school counselors are not working aggressively with kids to guide them through the process. They sit in their chairs and take up job space and sit back and wait to be approached. Grandson was lucky he got the right counselor who stuck with him all the way through and it’s really paid off. Arm your child with a counselor who’s not afraid to earn their money. They scoured everywhere for scholarship money right from the start and by doing that it also helped make the right connections, even from a farm in the boonies of Indiana.
And if they want to serve their country in the process, they have to start getting the attention of their Senators in their Sophomore or Junior year because the Senator is only allowed so many slots to fill each year. When grandson approached Senator Bayh, he turned him down flat as he already had applications backed up for three years. Senator Lugar takes all applications, and lets the chips fall where they may. The many fall out of the academic 98 percentile in their senior year.
It is an abomination that getting an education takes so much money, because it turns the process of just getting into college to political gamesmanship and makes one become government dependent, if your aim is high and you’re not flush with money. All grandson wanted to do was become a military doctor specializing in burns and skin recovery for returning vets. One of his uncles came home from the battle of Fallujah with his face arms burned off.