Rick Perry attacks media on $27B shortfall, wants state colleges to offer $10,000 bachelor degree

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49091.html

Perry: Media creating 'budget Armageddon'
By ANDY BARR

Rick Perry accused the mainstream media of overstating the peril of Texas’s $27 billion budget shortfall during his State of the State speech Tuesday. The Republican governor is aggressively pushing a series of “emergency” legislative items that appeal to conservatives, and has been insisting since the start of the year that the budget gap in Texas shouldn’t prevent him from getting his agenda items through.

Perry’s proposals – including a voter ID law and a requirement that a sonogram be performed before an abortion – have been met skeptically in Texas political circles. But the governor used his address Tuesday to hit back at his critics. Perry pointed the finger at the “mainstream media and big government interest groups are doing their best to convince us that we're facing a budget Armageddon.”...

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http://impactnews.com/round-rock-pflugerville/254-recent-news/11596-perry-issues-10000-tuition-challenge

Gov. Rick Perry advocated a $10,000 cap on the cost of a bachelor’s degree at a state university Feb. 8 during his biennial State of the State speech, which also mentioned a number of other potential adjustments to Texas’ colleges and universities.

“It’s time for a bold Texas-style solution to the challenge, one that I’m sure the brightest minds in our universities can devise,” Perry said. “Today, I am challenging our institutions of higher education to develop bachelor’s degrees that cost no more than $10,000, including textbooks.” Perry's concept comes at a time when budget drafts are cutting nearly $10 billion over the next biennium in state spending toward education, with deep cuts reserved for major universities...

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1. Gonna keep fronting for Gov. Goodhair, media folks?

He's blaming you for the mess he made. Or are you so enthralled by his proposed "bold Texas-style solution" to inquire too closely into what the hell that's supposed to mean?

[northoftheborder]

2. Governor Delusional Deniar

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3. so "big government interest groups" are trying to keep you from implementing your big government

agenda?

Check. :crazy:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. They stopped funding the Superconducting supercollider near Waxahachie.

They can't fund R&D and put lots of physicists to work.

And now we get our ass handed to us by CERN and the Chinese and the Indians.

[glinda]

5. When he got his BS Texas A&M University in 1972, that was the cost then.

My BS Degree is different than his "BS" degree.