well…as time goes by in this primary season, more and more facts are coming to light about how Rick Perry has sold Texas into one of the greatest states for crony capitalism….in the Post today, there is an article that has found the fact that 34 of the governor’s top 50 donors received tax breaks, state contracts, or appointment to regulatory boards in Texas; a huge extension of the culture of “pay to play” that has been rampant under his administration. Didn’t we have enough of this type of crap under Bush/Cheney with Halliburton and the rest of the connected businesses stealing billions from the American people? Then, we have ole Rick out on the stump shouting that only private business creates jobs, that government can’t do it…then, why do we have ole Rick doling out millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to businesses to have them build manufacturing plants in Texas? Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy…..if you want to know what not to do on the federal level…just look at what ole Rick is doing in Texas….
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One last thing for today…
Well…I don’t know what happened to my brain over the last couple of days but I have been able to work up some outrage and this one is just a jaw dropping example of the world as the repubs see it….over the last year, 25 individual hedge fund managers made over 26 billion dollars in income…yep, that’s right folks, these thieves took an aver age of a billion dollars home each…with the top guy making 4.9 billion dollars…and since they bought themselves a law from the repubs back when ole GW was running the whole show, they only pay 15% tax on that money; never mind that the secretaries that work at these funds and the janitors that clean up after them pay 25% of their pay in taxes. This is the repubs idea of fairness? How many jobs did this 26 billion create? Not one…yep, not one….
Where are the jobs, Boehner? Where are the jobs, Cantor? Where are the jobs, Snyder?
I do also want to take on the myth that the the low tax policies of gov Perry of Texas are the cause for job growth there…I have to laugh at that nonsense since almost all of the jobs are a result of the runup of oil prices and profits, so the rest of us are paying taxes in the form of higher prices that are subsidizing job growth in Texas…what are the repubs going to claim next as a result of their anti American agenda? That the oil in the ground in Texas is there because the repubs gave the rich more tax cuts? I think their crazy is starting to rot this country…geez….