Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched.
Even as Perry requested the Recovery Act money, he railed against it. On the very same day he asked for the funds, he set up a petition titled “No Government Bailouts.”
Why is #40 addressed to me?
Another bald-faced (and bold font) lie from Red South - but what else can we expect?
According to USGovernmentSpending.com, state debt in Texas in the year 2000 was $19.2 billion. At the end of 2010, it was $27.3 billion. Even if you don't account for inflation, that is only a 42% increase. If you account for inflation, it is a 16% increase, or 1.6% per year.
Perhaps, but I think every Freeper here would gladly have taken Bush for the last 3 years rather than Obama.
If Perry just ends up being exactly the same as having Bush back in 2013 I’d have no problem with that instead of Obama.
And if Perry replaces Kennedy with a conservative like Bush replaced O’Connor with one he’ll have done more for conservatism and social issues than any President in history.