Are you looking for excuses or the answer (the truth).
--------------------------------------
Just looking for an answer to my simple question which, after mentioning cookies,encouraging research, etc etc you have failed to answer.
You question sounds like what happens when little billy gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar. “ Yesterday Susie stole a cookie”.
--------------------------------------
The question is not what others have done, it is what is right to do.
--------------------------------------
Do all state budgets increase from the start of an administration to the end? If they all do then it becomes a question of what is normal vs what is extreme and the only way to do that is to compare to other states and previous candidates that got support from conservatives. Its easy to say 6'4" is tall....but not when you are talking about the NBA.
I ask again, did the budget of California under Reagan increase less, more, or much more than Texas under Perry. If it was more or much more under Reagan, then I don't see how you can use it as an argument to say Perry is not worthy of being the nominee unless you also feel Reagan should not have been the nominee.
--------------------------------------
Is it right to run up state spending as a percent of the state’s GDP? At some point, it is unsustainable. The politicians are just playing “last man holding the bag”.
--------------------------------------
Its up to the people of that state to decide. I am personally opposed and agree about it being unsustainable. I'm just trying to determine if what Perry did is out of the ordinary for candidates that conservatives have supported in the past.
--------------------------------------
Unfortunately the electorate are easily fooled and don’t check the facts vs what the candidates SAY.
--------------------------------------
Agreed, they can read something out of context and easily get the wrong idea.
--------------------------------------
So no matter what I or the candidates say, do your homework.....
--------------------------------------
I did. Under Reagan the California budget increased 177%. Makes Perry look like an amateur. I'm sure there were reasons for both, and more to the story which I hope others will help fill me in on....but if you are simply going to dismiss someone for the percentage in which spending went up...then Reagan should have gotten the boot faster than some are trying to do to Perry.
--------------------------------------
If you want to vote for a big government guy, go ahead. Just don’t post on here that he is a small government guy.
--------------------------------------
I didn't post that Perry is small government... I just asked a simple question.
Pardon, it was a 122% increase under Reagan- not 177%.