From Perry's State of the State Address:Ladies and gentlemen, members of the House and Senate, Senator Hutchinson. Our State is faced with significant challenges this legislation session. Our insurance rates have tripled. Electricity rates are some of the highest rates in the nation, and college tuition has soared leaving many with no chance to attend college.
Our financial shortsightedness has resulted in lost revenue from Federal tax dollars and moving some of the most vulnerable off the rolls of CHIP. Our elderly are faced with rising cost of utilities while living on a fixed income. Many have returned to work flipping burgers or greeting the poor at the local Walmart.
To those who are looking to Texas as a place to call home, I say this to you: don't get old, don't get sick, and don't get poor, cuz there is no place in Texas for you. [loud applause]
Over the next 6 months, nothing will be done about the high cost of electricity, or insurance, or college tuition besides a bunch of talk. Instead we will focus on the real issues facing Texas families, lowering the business tax that I created in 2007, making sure the Mexicans can't vote in elections or steal our wives, making it harder for the old people to vote, and continuing the corporate welfare that I call the Enterprise fund giving millions of tax dollars to corporations.
These are the priorities of those who we represent, those who put us here, Bob Perry, the insurance industry, electricity lobbyists, and lots of right wing, Mexican hating republicans who are scared shit less of losing again in 2010. These are the people who brought us to the dance, so it is time to hike up the dress, grab a hand full of butt, and get down to bid-ness.
For all of Texas, in God's name we prey.
3 comments:
In your 2nd to last paragraph you forgot my personal favorite part of the address: "...and sucking your tax dollars away from communities and schools to augment federal dollars for a big fat useless fence."
And my second favorite part: "...while continuing to ensure that Texas schools fall lower and lower in national rankings through idiotic programs such as leave as many working class children behind as possible, as well as teacher incentives and religious based science. Oh, wait, what did the SBOE do about that? They said let God decide, didn't they?"
This is GREAT!
I love this! You need to make this into a you tube video with images of Perry and somebody reading this speech.
Teacher incentives -- rewarding people who do their jobs well -- is an "idiotic program?"
How so?
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