bionicarm
Active Member
Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3058919
You are right, all you have to do is look at texas as a government that works (as good as they are going to anyway). There is no point in arguing...
The home of the "redneck" where the state's percentage change of GDP isn't negative, unemployment is 4% lower than the national average. The state doesn't have a budget deficit, itsn't experiencing a huge financial crisis.
And this is after still feeling the effects of 3 major hurricanes over the past 4 years. And taking on the additional load of every welfare recipient and criminal in New Orleans.
And best of all, I don't look to the government to save me, I look to myself.
It's also the state where:
You have a Governor who wanted to force middle school girls to take a drug for a disease that's normally contracted by s^x,
Still won't allow gambling when over 20% of their residents go to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico to play,
Has one of the worse educational systems in the country, but tries to rationalize it by forcing kids to take a useless standardized test {TAKS} to graduate or be promoted to the next grade,
Has a major metropolis (Dallas) where half the city is 'dry' because the Southern Baptists don't dare let you have a drink in a restaurant or buy beer at the store,
No state income tax, but has one of the highest property tax rates in the country (don't EVER retire in Texas)
One of the few states in the country where in every store, restaurant, ATM, and any other place that has signage has to have the wording in both English and Spanish
And to think I live here!
http:///forum/post/3058919
You are right, all you have to do is look at texas as a government that works (as good as they are going to anyway). There is no point in arguing...
The home of the "redneck" where the state's percentage change of GDP isn't negative, unemployment is 4% lower than the national average. The state doesn't have a budget deficit, itsn't experiencing a huge financial crisis.
And this is after still feeling the effects of 3 major hurricanes over the past 4 years. And taking on the additional load of every welfare recipient and criminal in New Orleans.
And best of all, I don't look to the government to save me, I look to myself.
It's also the state where:
You have a Governor who wanted to force middle school girls to take a drug for a disease that's normally contracted by s^x,
Still won't allow gambling when over 20% of their residents go to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico to play,
Has one of the worse educational systems in the country, but tries to rationalize it by forcing kids to take a useless standardized test {TAKS} to graduate or be promoted to the next grade,
Has a major metropolis (Dallas) where half the city is 'dry' because the Southern Baptists don't dare let you have a drink in a restaurant or buy beer at the store,
No state income tax, but has one of the highest property tax rates in the country (don't EVER retire in Texas)
One of the few states in the country where in every store, restaurant, ATM, and any other place that has signage has to have the wording in both English and Spanish
And to think I live here!
