With a $27 Billion budget gap, TX Gov Perry advises Obama on budget

[johncoby2]

Trusting Texas Governor Rick Perry with fiscal responsibility is like trusting a convicted child molester with the keys to a daycare.

http://bayareahouston.blogspot.com/2011/02/governor-rick-perry-and-child-molesters.html

Governor Rick Perry and his republican party drowning in a $27 Billion gaping hole in the budget is now trying to tell the Federal government how to run their finances. From the Houston Chronicle:

One of Gov. Rick Perry's campaign staples last year was that America would be a far better place if it were more like the Lone Star State — limited government, fewer taxes, sensible regulation and, of course, a balanced budget. Now, Perry and his cohorts in the Texas Legislature are making that critique more explicit by pushing for a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would force Congress to do what those in Texas are required to do: balance the budget annually.

[inademv]

1. Nearly all states

have constitutional amendments that require a balanced budget. I find it rather insulting that Perry would suggest that Texas be the model for that suggestion and not one of the 47 other states that have the exact same provision (especially ones that don't have a multi-billion dollar deficit that way Texas does).

[katnapped]

2. Weren't they gonna secede?

What's taking so long?

[johncoby2]

4. Secession talk was just to win the ignorant vote

Texas cannot leave the US. Its constitution does not allow it.
Now, if they are willing to give up NASA, Fort Hood, San Antonio Bases, and every Federally funding facility and revolt, that is another thing.

But money talks in Texas. Even if it is dirty filthy federal money.

[peekaloo]

3. a good head of hair can't disguise an empty head. nt

[DCKit]

5. But the attempt sure does a lot to explain the abundance of fabulous (R) hairdoos. nt

[PA Democrat]

6. His hair grows so abundantly because their is apparently a lot of "fertilizer"

inside that skull.