Perry Talks Water, Tax Relief in State of the State
Twelve years after first becoming governor and one year after a failed bid for president, Rick Perry delivered a State of the State speech Tuesday that was long on large-scale spending proposals and short on red meat for his conservative base.
“Our bank balance is healthy. Our economy is growing. Our future is limitless,” Perry told a joint session of the Legislature from the floor of the Texas House.
Over 35 minutes, Perry laid out an ambitious agenda for the remaining four months of the legislative session. He avoided hot-topic issues like abortion, immigration and gun control and focused instead ...
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Casey Magnuson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It surprised me nothing he said was surprising.
Marc Lippincott via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It surprises me that Texas voters ever elected him to statewide office.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He is such a tool for his masters.
Soupy Head via Texas Tribune on Facebook
let's "improve education" by teaching end times prophecies. yay.
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It did surprise me that his arrogance and willfull ignorance makes him even more callow than I had originally thought.
Kitty Bokchito Rose via Texas Tribune on Facebook
idiot
Dave Sanders via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm confused. I thought infrastructure projects were socialism. I also fail to see how education is improved by cutting funding. Maybe I just don't watch Fox News enough.
Cliff McSparran via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As he tries to forget all those 2012 Tuesdays which didn't go well.
Christine Lund
If our bank balance is healthy, it's because the Governor Perry stole money from education, women, healthcare, food stamps, childcare, eldercare, the disabled, the unemployed and there he sits, fat and happy declaring us in great shape. Just because he's fat and happy, doesn't mean that the state is. Our Governor is either being paid off or he's just dumb. I don't think he's dumb. And guns don't bother him, look where he lives. I'd like him to live in my neighborhood for a week. He'd go home shaking. But he doesn't care about anything for the average person. And the vulnerable are just targets for him. Take this, take that, they have no voice and no one is listening to them. I know this because I have been asking for help for seven years and it appears that no one is home.
Kim Burkett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Total abandonment of public education. That doesn't surprise me from Governor Oops. What surprises me is Texans let him get away with it.
Judy Burns via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So happy I got to miss this today.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yes, you are confused. Infrastructure has always been the domain of Gov. Education can be improved through cuts by reforming and restructuring priorities. Like less stadiums and more teachers. Less high paid administrators and more teachers. Perhaps Dave you need to actually pay attention to your local school district to see the waste!
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
status quo
Burwell John Thompson III via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Chill with the bias Tribune.
Richard Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
IDIOTS !
Clint Belcher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ur a idiot kitty
Karen Browder via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Who is going to pay for these services while you have bare boned education ..... Someone wants to run for president
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Education is not bare boned. I suggest you examine what your district pays on construction of buildings, salaries of administrators and other programs.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
His top three wishes were to run against President Obama in 2016 and be elected governor again ....fairly typical.
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Check with your superintendents and school boards ..ask for an accounting on how the money provided to them was spent. Money is not the problem. The problem is how it is being..and has been..spent.
Rick Archer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There isn't any waste in education. You don't have a clue Matthew.
David L. Tinney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just the same old lets keep kicking the pants off the otber states wben it comes to running a surplus. Texas rocks. Maybe Washington can learn a few tips from us. Oh! by the way when a business is looking to relocate or start new, one of the things is infrastructure. Perry may be gov oops but that is not stopping thousands of people from moving here. Rock on Texas, stay conservative or we wont have a surplus for long.
Clark Humphrey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Matthew Cowan it is evident you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. The stadiums you claim districts are spending money on are through bond issues. Meaning the tax payers in that district voted for it. Try looking up bonded indebtiness. As far as administrator pay, 2 maybe 3% of a districts budget. They earn their pay for the most part. You ought to try reading and working through all the laws that public schools are under.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
LOL, Rick, it is you who needs to get a clue. Look at the pay of superintendents. mid 6 figure range. That pays for about 10 teachers. Then there are the other 6 figure subordinates. Then the cost of new buildings that are being overly designed by architects. That adds tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in cost. Then there are the districts that are floating costly bonds in order to get Federal money. The huge stadiums being built, the athletic programs. Yeah, it is clear Rick, you are clueless
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
LOL Clark. Just who pays for the bonds? The money is not free!! It has to be paid back and with interest. So that is money has to come from somewhere. That is right the taxpayers. So that means in paying that money back they made the choice not to hire a teacher to pay for that stadium. So the ones who are at fault are the taxpayers of the district.
You claim that a superintendent earns his pay. Well then you made he choice of hiring him over hiring several teachers. Again you made a choice and you should live with it. You should not ask the state and the other taxpayers to pay for your decisions.
I am well acquainted with the laws that public schools are under. I am well acquainted with how school districts work and who is responsible for their decisions.
Jason Kendall via Texas Tribune on Facebook
http://thetelluwhat.blogspot.com/2013/01/faces-of-texass.html
Kim Burkett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Matthew, the state of Texas didn't fund the 160,000 new students to its schools over the last two years. For funding purposes they didn't exist. First time in 60 years the state couldnt fund new students. That isn't "bare boned" to you???
Sherri Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rick Perry you are an idiot. Do my job for one day. Guarantee kids won't know who you are. Thanks for the budget cuts. Our labs have 25 working computers and I have 34 kids. There's a word problem for you. I'm a registered Republican.
Jim Vance
Seems like this tirade was all about another load of water and highway stimulus funds along with a big tax cut -- crony capitalism 101 repeated yet again.
David L. Tinney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is that a toothpick between his fingers?
Derek Day via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Check out the PBS documentary they have showing on their independent lens right now. About how Perry backed a Texas board of education president who believes the earth is 6000 years old and has tried to force creationism into science books against the protest of the experts who help decide the curriculum. He hasn't done anything for education other than pander to his party
Toni Mikel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
On a happy note! My NE Arkansas just got bid for Steel Mill in Mississippi County. There's a lot of Black people in Osceola. Arkansas i would like to thank Rick Perry form being racist and unlike Governor Beebe not supporting the President :)
David L. Tinney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Im not here to speak abt throwing $ at education. Austin school supt. makes 285k a year and has 11 other people on her staff that make over $100k a year and that is just one district out of 1100 districts in Texas. Texas only has 254 counties do the math. How abt this. Combine some districts into one or two save some $ there and put the $ where it really counts in the three r's. Stop building muti million $ campi just to outdo the next district is a waste of $. Austin wants to spend $20 millon just to renovate three schools here and turn them into all boys and girls schools. Thats a good thing but not when the schools are already functional now.
David L. Tinney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When it comes to earth and space time Gods ways are higher than mans ways so I guess we will never know until we see Him face to face.
David L. Tinney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well maybe just a little bit. I have my hands full just living here in Austin. Have you seen the red and blue map of the counties in Texas. Very liberal here and awhole lot of wasted $ goes on all the time.
Water Guy
Sounds like it is just Red McCombs using his political muscle to get money to build a pipeline from Louisiana to San Antonio and netting himself a Billion dollars selling something the two States should negotiate, cutting out the middle man.
Sandra Melia-Usleman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gotta love Texas!