Incompetence Reigns in Rick Perry’s Texas
As the unemployment rate hits a 22-year high, local food banks are sending out word to anyone who will listen (including me) that they are at the breaking point. Not only did the recently laid-off have a hard time getting benefits — thanks to Perry’s initial refusal of stimulus funding (he quietly reneged later) – now they are having a hard time even getting food. The Texas food-stamp program is in disarray.
Really, I’m telling you, he’s been there too long. At some point Texas needs a governor who is capable of more than looking good on TV.
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So Wick, who are we supposed to vote for to replace him?
Senator Hutchinson voted for pretty much every piece of fiscal insanity in Washington over the past eight years, and Democrats have proven to be far worse.
It’s truly sad that our alternatives come down to a big government Republican, a bigger government Democrat, or Governor Good Hair. Given those choices, I’ll take the hair.
Amen.
But Wick, God chose Rick Perry, just like he chose George Bush. It’s not our place to argue with divine political intervention.
And I really don’t know what these food people are whining about – Gov. Perry was quite clear that there is no recession in Texas, we have no unemployment problems, and if the gosh dang Feds would get off our backs every single Texas household could be eating Baby Back Ribs from Chili’s To Go every night!
Dallasite, you’ve forgotten someone very important…
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/
Wick – I would sell it this way.
A vote against Gov. Hairdryer is a vote for Sen. Chanel. A vote for Sen. Chanel opens the doors for Gov. Bighands. Open doors for Bighands means the same for Carraway v. Hunt.
And if you are against all this you are against the city of Dallas.
Ummmm… let me start over. A vote against Gov. Hairdryer…
I support ABP: Anyone But Perry
Voted for Kinky in 2006. I’m very prepared to do it, again, in 2010.
No pun intended.
A boiled egg could do a better job than Rick Perry.
As someone who works for a non-profit that provides needy people with meals and a food pantry, something drastic needs to be done at the state level. Get rid of Perry. In fact, lets do a clean sweep and make this state blue. Something has to be done, because the Republican control in this state has ruined it.
Texas is one of a few states that has not spent itself into a fiscal crisis.
Over the last 15 years, we have been forced to absorb a couple of million illegal immigrants and about 20% of New Orleans.
We have lower unemployment than most other states and our homes have not dropped in value nearly as much as most other states. And you are Pixxed off at the Governor?
I suggest that before you continue to attack the Governor, go sit in the waiting room at Parkland for a day and see who they are “serving” and how much they are being paid to serve.
Then go to the food pantry and see who is in line in front of you.
And finally, go to the food stamp interview office and see who is in line there.
The administrative requirements of the welfare programs were put in to try to prevent fraud, not to prevent hard working people from getting temporary benefits.
Texas has succeeded IN SPITE OF Gov. Perry, not because of any good he has done.
What about Tom Scheifer? Although, I hear he’s getting absolutely no traction and to win a Dem primary he’ll to go through an exorcism to rid himself of the GW taint.
Think he’d make a good Gov, but can’t get the nomination. Same with the Kinkster — this time he’s not running as an Indy but as a Dem.
hell. i’m a moderate in all things except moderation.
That’s right dubious brother. If these people don’t look like me, live in my neighborhood or go to my church they ain’t nuthin. Let ‘em starve and stay sick.
If a person wants a good education and health care in this State let ‘em live in Highland Park or get a good job, like mine!
I apologize for taking you to task, Dubious Brother, but it is a crime that the same society which celebrates a multi-million dollar art complex makes its poorest wait 150 days (5 months) for food benefits. Avoiding fraud is one thing, but this is inhumane.
I am embarrassed for my state.
If you take the people out of line that aren’t supposed to be in line then you don’t have a 5 month wait for the people that the benefit structure was designed for. They are called illegal immigrants for a reason.
@ Dubious Brother: Texas, in fact, has spent itself into a fiscal crisis. Our deficit was $10 billion this year — only covered by an infusion of stimulus money from the Obama Administration. A nice paradox, that. Rick Perry likes to brag that Texas had a balanced budget. He fails to note how it balanced that budget.
So Wick,
how many pieces have you written that dissed those who criticize with no alternative…….what is your suggestion? What dems have rolled out actually made rp look good.
From the state that brought you Ann Richards, bile moving towards mouth.
@ Neither party: Good point. My hope at present is in Kay, who is a former Texas comptroller and who has watched with alarm the state’s dismal performance under Perry. Tom Schieffer is a good man on the Democratic side, but I doubt the Demos will forgive him for his friendship with Bush — although his candidacy is enough to contradict your point. Kinky is Kinky; enough said.
Republican governing philosophy, such as it is, has failed, nationally and locally. Government stays smaller under Ds. Functions better under Ds. Provides for the unRICH better under Ds. Just because Beck projects the GOP flaws onto the Ds, it doesn’t make it correct.
Loved this thread, Wick. I liken it to tossing a bleeding squid to sharks in Michael Vick’s bathtub.
Rick Perry may become the stuff of Texas legend, but not even Rob Allyn will read his memoirs.
Hear hear! 10 years is too long with Perry. Go Kay!
KBH “has watched with alarm the state’s dismal performance under Perry” and didn’t notice the dismal performace of the Federal Government’s spending spree while she has been a willing participant Senator? She didn’t watch with alarm the collapse of Enron (which her husband’s law firm was party to to the tune of $150 million in fees and then denied any knowledge of wrongdoing) which was a precursor to the financial blood bath of the last few years?
KBH may have been a competent comptroller but she does not have the track record of making the tough calls to prevent Texas from spending there way into a California, New York or Illinois style mess.
The political system in America is failing because the parties do not encourage primary competition and we do not have a neutral press – candidates are not vetted properly and incumbents are not held accountable for their actions.
I am not a Perry apologist as he has done things that defy logic but it pains me to see him attacked for his hair, balancing a budget with federal funds that Texans are going to have to pay back with their taxes or not having enough food at the local food banks.
@Wick, From where do you get the 10 billion dollar figure for our deficit this year? Not trying to debate you but am curious.
I have searched the internet and cannot find that figure. I found this sentence in an article in last month’s DMN:
Although Texas didn’t have a budget deficit in 2009, it used economic stimulus funds to close a projected shortfall in Medicaid in 2010 and 2011.
@Dubious Brother You make valid points but KBH’s fiscal legacy is in earmarks. She delivers the pork by diverting money from the biggest pot straight to Texas. That is to say, she excels at spending federal taxpayer dollars in Texas–and that works in Perry’s favor on certain stats. The question remains, who will keep the Texas trough full if she becomes governor?
Sadly, there’s that kind of trough and the other kind that Wick points out in this blog post. It’s shameful.