Buhler? Buhler? Perry? Perry?

Ben Stein nails it; Perry is bone ignorant on the subject of the econmy. Bachmann isn't any better. Further, it is generally less costly to prevent pollution than to try to clean it up afterwards. Just one of the ways in which Perry's way of doing business in Texas redistributes wealth away from the middle and lower economic strata into the pockets of the wealthy few.

To excerpt again from my comments and expand on them from an earlier post, Texas has among the worst stats of the 50 states for poverty, for ignorance, for suppressed voter participation, and for pollution.

Is this what we want? Does anyone in their right mind believe that this is the way to economic growth and competitiveness?

Texas is:

49th in teacher pay

1st in the percentage of people over 25 without a high school diploma 


41st in high school graduation rate

46th in SAT scores

1st in percentage of uninsured children

1st in percentage of population uninsured

1st in percentage of non-elderl­y uninsured

49th in mental health funding

50th in homeowners­' insurance affordabil­ity

3rd in percentage of people living below the poverty level

49th in average Women Infant and Children benefit payments

1st in teenage birth rate/ unintended pregnancies, and repeat teen unintended pregnancies

50th in average credit scores for loan applicants

50th in percentage of voting age population that votes

1st in annual number of executions

1st in minimum wage jobs

1st in air pollution emissions


1st in volume of volatile organic compounds released into the air


1st in amount of toxic chemicals released into water


1st in amount of recognized cancer-cau­sing carcinogen­s released into air


1st in amount of carbon dioxide emissions

This is Texas. This is what you get with the politics of Rick Perry. This is what you get with far right Republican politics. This is what happens when low information voters go gaga for gun happy characters who are all bullets and no brains, all fire power, no brain power.

All hail the ignorant, gun toting tea party and their foolish partisan policies. The rest of us don't need to mess with Texas; they've messed it up pretty well already without any help from outside their borders. 
 
Don't hold your breath for the anti-intellect crowd to smarten up any time soon; although you might want to hold your breath to try to avoid all those airborne pollutants.