The Brief: Top Texas News for Nov. 1, 2011
The Big Conversation:
Rick Perry may claim credit for Texas' economic success, but most Texans aren't buying it, according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Sixty-five percent of respondents attributed Texas' relative economic success — which Perry has touted on the presidential campaign trail — to long-standing policies and factors like the oil and gas industry, the state's lenient regulatory climate and the absence of an income tax. Twenty-one percent credited Perry with the state's success.
"They're not crediting him, but I find that unsurprising," said Daron Shaw, the UT government professor who co-directs the ...
Comments (6)
Terri Anthony via Texas Tribune on Facebook
i don't buy a damn thing Rick Perry says.
Donna Rene Johnston via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Which is weird, Terri, because everything about him is for sale!
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas state budget deficit, $27 BILLION in the red, is not exactly a great "Miracle."
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The miracle is that people have voted for him. All hat and no cattle.
Adele Roberson
"Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born you are on your own.
Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no foodstamps, no welfare, no nothing.
If you're preborn, you are fine, if you're preschool, you're fucked."
George Carlin
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Juan Reynoso's Blog - TeaParty.org
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Nobember 6th, 2011
Mr. politicians, not all Americans are stupid, you can not BS the whole country. It was a time in this United States, that the American people was the most productive in the world, proud of being self sufficient and the biggest exporters that supply foreign countries with goods and service. Your job stimulus and the billions of Dollars that you want to waste on fixing the US infrastructure will create only temporary jobs and will not fix this catastrophe; it is a dream that will never can to become a reality.
We know what made our country's huge unemployment that contributed to this economic catastrophe. It is the "Free Trade and Globalization"; not one will be able to fix this catastrophe if they are not able to see the truth. For forty years this corrupt Government, hide the damage caused by free trade and Globalization, the government implemented socialist programs to compensate the people for lost income and jobs; give the people what they have not earned and guarantee the people a right to goods and services he has not earned, at the expenses of the middle class, this practice of cover up our country's ill foreign trade policies converted our country into a socialist state, that is destroying our country. what politicians of this United States must understand is that the government do not produce any thing, they take from the people in the form of taxation and diminish someone else's right to what he has earned. Socialism, Marxism and communism do not work the people of this United states will revolt. Mr. politician , the people is fed up, it will not take it any more; you have seen the peoples demonstrations asking for the reclamation of what this country was, and for the prosperity of the working people.
Mr. Politician, the first thing you must do, is to recognize that socialist programs do not work and must stop. Give the people back, their pride and their right to self determination this will fix this catastrophe. We know that rights come with responsibilities, and that it is the responsibility of every American to work, to be the best they can be and be productive. Not one in this United States want to become a burden to any one; not to their families, their community or the country. This corrupt government must eradicate all elements that deprive Americans of working opportunities and earning livable wages. The elements that needs to be address are:
Free Trade and illegal immigration, these two issues deprive Americans of the opportunity to work and earn a decent pay for their work.
Mr. Politician, expending money in the name of social justice is a lie, because this made people economic slaves dependents of handouts and supporters of their masters. it is a system that will destroy our nation wealth and income, it breeds more spending and make our people lazy.
Mr. Politician, you need to start working for the American people, do not promise what you can not deliver. Free Trade can be renegotiate to benefit the American working people and the easy task, will be the enforcement of our immigration laws and secure our borders, this will create millions of jobs. stimulus and bail outs will not work it will make this economic catastrophe worse.
Mr. Politician, I pray to God, to give you the wisdom to do what is right for Americans. This is not the time to seek political power it is a time to work hard to save our country.
Juan Reynoso