He said the federal provisions would require unprecedented changes in state rules on who is eligible for unemployment payments. He also argued that the funds - which Democrats say would update benefits so that more women, elderly and student workers could qualify - would place additional burdens on businesses, leaving them to pay the added costs when the federal money ran out.
So, dude, you just admitted you have a problem with women, the elderly and students.
Perry blatantly promotes the needs and desires of business over those of the jobless.
Instead, businesses should be able to use the money to create jobs, Perry said.
Like additions to the private toll road 25 miles outside of Houston, with zip population to speak of, that would benefit your fat cat land developer contributors, Guv?
Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News points to Perry's political rationale for turning down the federal stimulus money.
Governor Perry outed himself for being the out-of-touch moron he truly is. He carefully tends to his flock of fat cats but he refuses to lift a finger to improve our schools, save or create jobs or help jobless Texans gain access to unemployment and health insurance. Perry and the remaining dregs of southern Republicans continue to exist in a parallel universe completely detached from the majority of their constituents. Hopefully the elections in 2010 and 2012 will sound the death knell for the sorry lot of them.
Yesterday in the Houston Chronicle I read an article written by Clay Robison that reveals pay to play continues ho' hum, as usual in Texas. No one is squawking or screeching about it either, unlike the case in Illinois and consequently Washington, D.C. I wonder why?
