Comments on: Rick Perry Takes a Shot at Romney Over Mass. Health Care

By: PoliticalAgnostic

PoliticalAgnostic — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:18:02 +0000

I am a native Texan and here are a few things about Rick Perry: Thanks to Perry the schools here are ranked 47th and there is a multi-billion dollar deficit (approximately $4-billion) in the state’s educational system that his policies created. He was warned by the then Republican State Comptroller 5-years ago that his tax cuts were going to cause the problem that Texas schools are going through right now. Most local school districts are facing huge budget deficits some in the multi-million dollar range and are laying off staff and teachers just to cover these shortfalls. There is a looming $27-billion deficit due next year for the state’s budget that is not being talked about nationally but we in Texas are painfully aware of it. Perry took $6.4-billion in stimulus money from the Federal Government to help pay this years state deficit. This and the redirection of the $4-billion from Texas education funds allowed the $9.1-billion State Rainy Day Fund, that Rick Perry controls, to go untouched. Please take the time to read the article “Perry Mines Texas System to Raise Cash for Campaigns” in the New York Times, published August 20, 2011. It makes for some very interesting reading. As for job creation here in Texas, take a long look at the types of jobs that Perry claims to have created. For the most part these hare minimum wage or lower jobs and many are part-time. Companies are moving to Texas because of tax breaks and because Texas is a right-to-work state. He is not creating new jobs merely shifting jobs from other states. Also look at the number of communities appearing on the 100 poorest cities in the USA. Thirty-five of the 100 are located here in Texas. He tried to take private land here through eminent domain so that a Spanish company, Cintra could build the Trans-Texas Corridor, a super transportation system that has since been canceled when a number if issues arose about the project. More and more of the new highways build here in Texas are toll-roads, one the latest is the State Highway 121 project in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, another controversial tollroad project involving Cintra. Cintra would have the right to collect tolls on the road for 50-years. A lot of questions were raised when it came out that the North Texas Tollway Authority was preventing from bidding on this project. A number of unanswered questions about Perry’s relationship with Cintra are surfacing now and I am sure will require answers during the presidential campaign. He also signed an executive order that would have pushed a program to require 6th grade school girls be vaccinated with a very controversial drug (Gardasil) to protect against Human Papillomavirus or HPV created by Merck which is intended to prevent cervical cancer in sexually active females. A lot of questions were raised about his motives and he dropped his push for the program when those questions became too controversial. Again, a lot of these questions centered on his financial relationship with Merck. Questions have arisen about Perry’s actions surrounding the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004. Willingham was convicted of murder but new questions about the evidence collection and methodology used in analyzing this evidence that led to his conviction came out shortly before his execution. Perry could have requested a 30-day stay-of-execution that would have allowed this new evidence be reviewed. Perry went ahead and allowed the execution to take place. When the state forensic science commission began to review the case Perry dismissed the chairman and replaced three members of this commission. As a result, to date, no review has taken place. These are just a few issues that are being raised during the vetting process and it is doubtful that he will be able to survive the scrutiny of the national press. As we in Texas have found out, Rick Perry is not who he purports to be. Please take the time to really learn about him before you make up your mind.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:15:47 +0000

Perry is just another koolaid drinking fool that thinks that America should be run by those who hold the cash. They care nothing about those who actually make America what it is, the everyday people that actually work for a living and care about ALL AMERICANS, not just the rich.
These people are destroying the true American dream, a truly United States.

By: MikeBell

MikeBell — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:38:44 +0000

Rick Perry is playing the republican base.
He has exposed himself as a New World Order Progressive that makes everyone a ward of the government and strips the people of their consent to be government.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:47 +0000

Texas teachers with family are paying over $800.00 a month for medical insurance.
Vote for PERRY so you can pay high monthly insurance payments.

By: William

William — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:56:21 +0000

Homophobia, paranoia, racism, antisemitism, the list goes on and on. Yea, like this country needs another Cowboy from Texas. Hey, Rick Perry, Texas – that’s where the men are men and animals are scared!!

By: Rick McDaniel

Rick McDaniel — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:19:10 +0000

That’s very deserved.

By: Searambler

Searambler — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:00:55 +0000

Joan wrote, “Those who dare oppose this movement, oppose God.”
LOL! I oppose you, your movement, your god, and all religion. Your irrational and baffling belief system is dangerous for the country and should be outlawed……..

By: Searambler

Searambler — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:59:13 +0000

“Perry said in a recent interview on Fox that it’s a simple formula: Few government regulations, severe limitations on the right to sue and low taxation. Again, Perry’s right. Do those things and businesses will come to the state and create jobs. What he didn’t mention was what, other than job creation, happens when you give business everything it wants. Of course tax breaks for multi-billion dollar corporations incentivize businesses to expand. They also cost the state money that it needs for schools. Given a choice, Rick Perry’s Texas went with tax breaks. Now the state’s laying off as many as 100,000 teachers. That’s not likely to help Texas improve its current high school graduation rank of 36th in the nation. If chemical companies didn’t have to comply with both state and federal regulations, they could hire thousands of people. So Perry’s administration not only refuses to regulate them in any meaningful way, but attacks the federal government when it does. Texas now has a thriving chemical industry and the largest levels of airborne carcinogens in the nation. Corporate responsibility and compliance with law are inconvenient. Making a mistake and getting sued for it is expensive. So Perry, his appointees and allies have enacted tort “reform” so draconian that now, businesses are free to do whatever they want to their employees and consumers literally without consequence. New laws and radical right-wing judges (many of them appointed by Perry) have not “limited” lawsuits, but effectively prevented entire classes of people from seeking justice of any kind. Today, even if a jury awards you damages against a corporation, there’s about an 87% chance that the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court (five of whose nine justices were appointed by Perry) will take it away from you, regardless of what the law says.”

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:52:16 +0000

Governor Perry’s involvement with the national call to prayer and fasting in the upcoming event in Houston will move the hand of God. Step down Obama, a Saint of God is about to take that seat of power. This nation will be ruled through the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Those who dare oppose this movement, oppose God. The Church is rising and this generation will see the prophecy written in the book of Joel acted out before there very eyes.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:17:40 +0000

I’m a Texas Christian, and Rick Perry doesn’t speak for me. I know many Texans who are uninsured and would be very happy to be offered affordable insurance from the government. He is doing what he does best. Practicing negative politics is the only way Rick Perry knows how to win an election.