Texas House approves budget that makes sweeping cuts

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By Corrie MacLaggan

AUSTIN, Tex | Mon Apr 4, 2011 1:15pm EDT

AUSTIN, Tex (Reuters) - The Republican-dominated Texas House late Sunday passed a budget for the next two fiscal years that does not add taxes or dip into the state's rainy day fund but does make sweeping cuts to education and health care.

"This budget paves the way to help Texas recover from the impacts of the national economic recession," Republican Governor Rick Perry said in a statement. "You cannot tax or spend your way to prosperity, and Texans expect their elected leaders to govern under that truth when it comes to taxpayer dollars."

The vote was 98 to 49 with two Republicans voting against along with all Democrats. The measure now goes to the Senate, which is expected to offer a proposal that has fewer cuts.

The House's $164.5 billion budget for the two fiscal years 2012 and 2013 spends $23 billion less than the last two-year budget cycle. The budget includes billions of dollars less for public schools than state law now requires and is billions of dollars short of what state officials expect will be needed to cover caseload growth in Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/us-texas-budget-idUSTRE7334DA20110404

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1. This is an organized, orchestrated attack

not just confined to any one state. They are being directed to alter the playing field dramatically for a reason: to accelerate the advent of the Neo-Feudal Age just on the horizon.

Hang on, folks, it's going to be a very bumpy ride.

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2. Yes it is

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3. and Texans expect their elected leaders to govern under that truth

It always amazes me how they can blatantly get away with this LIE constantly..How the Fuck do they think America became prosperous in the first place? It was through proper spending on American and taxes that were progressive..Now we spend everything on implements of Death and Destruction and impose no taxes worth mentioning on the ones that most can afford them.. LIES and the constant repetition of LIES is all they have but it serves them well/