$27 BILLION Texas Deficit

[texastoast]

And the Republican losers think Perry can do better than Obama?

We cut

Public education (many teachers buying supplies out of their own pockets)
Higher education support (we knew that would be at the top of the list)
Funding for pre-K Early Start programs
Community colleges closed
Medicare
Parolee supervision
Nursing education
Libraries and parks
9,400 government jobs eliminated (how DOES that figure in to job creation, Ricky?)

And the list goes on.

Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on federal stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/texas-used-stimulus-to-cover-97-of-its-deficit/70077/

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/19/news/economy/texas_budget_deficit/index.htm

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/28/3111691/texas-budget-with-15-billion-in.html

[Raster]

1. Perry's "Texas Miracle" is just another mass of hot air hovering over the state.

[onethatcares]

2. no, the" Texas Miracle" is that

Perry has all these people seeing him as a good guy.

[Broderick]

3. The media is building our next potential president and it is scary