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But none of that has happened. No experimental drugs into our kids, not paying tolls to drive on many roads. I think I've paid $12 in tolls total this year, and that's driving all over the friggin state. Does that mean I should dislike Perry?
Because his fellow Republicans put a stop to it, if Perry had his way it would have happened. Tolls, drive in Dallas, you will pay far more than $12 and he is working Hard to get all our highways turned into Toll roads, run by no-Americans, they will become the norm soon enough. I do not care if you back him or not the Majority will be turned off by his ideas.
Casper
Because his fellow Republicans put a stop to it, if Perry had his way it would have happened. Tolls, drive in Dallas, you will pay far more than $12 and he is working Hard to get all our highways turned into Toll roads, run by no-Americans, they will become the norm soon enough. I do not care if you back him or not the Majority will be turned off by his ideas.
Casper
speaking of roads. I have never seen more poorly kept roads then I did in texas
So you LIKE the idea of having your 12 year old daughter implanted with an experimental drug, you are gonna Love Perry. Like paying to drive on EVERY highway in the nation, even ones already paid for through taxes and bonds, you are going to Love Perry.
Casper
An EO for an opt out is not a mandate.
Quote:
Dose of Reason: Perry and Gardasil
August 12, 2011
Governor Rick Perry has been criticized for his February, 2007 Executive Order that made the vaccine mandatory for girls before entering the 6th grade. Very little is said about the part of the EO that affirmed the right of and facilitated parents who wish to “opt out” of not only Gardasil, but other vaccines as well.
There were bureaucrats who maintained that the only way to get the form with the seal was to go to Austin, find the right office and make the request in person. Perry used his EO to tell the Director of DSHS to make the request (and the seal) available on-line, making it easier to “opt out.”
In fact, the reason for the Executive Order was to speed up private insurance coverage and to make it easier for parents to exercise their right to opt out.
Because his fellow Republicans put a stop to it, if Perry had his way it would have happened. Tolls, drive in Dallas, you will pay far more than $12 and he is working Hard to get all our highways turned into Toll roads, run by no-Americans, they will become the norm soon enough. I do not care if you back him or not the Majority will be turned off by his ideas.
Casper
Negative press coverage on the issue, but notice the paragraph in bold. We are stretched to the limit and something has got to give. We use SH 130 quite a bit are are happy to get off of 35. It is horrible. So, Governor Perry was trying to do something about the problem that is eventually needing fixing.
Oh, and please pay attention to the underlined script.
Quote:
Rick Perry's NAFTA Superhighway Problem
8/12/11
Perry is hoping the NAFTA Superhighway quietly fades away. But has it really gone away? The controversial financing mechanism behind it that leases right-of-way to a private company – often Cintra – is still being used for freeways. That funding, known as Comprehensive Development Agreements, was recently used to build a toll road bypass to the Austin area, SH 130, considered part of the Trans-Texas Corridor. Trucks on Interstate 35 are still a big problem during rush hour in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, so eventually a separate road will need to be built for them similar to what the Trans-Texas Corridor called for. On July 6, the Obama administration struck a deal with Mexico to re-open access to the U.S. for certified Mexican truckers. http://townhall.com/columnists/rache...problem/page/2
Negative press coverage on the issue, but notice the paragraph in bold. We are stretched to the limit and something has got to give. We use SH 130 quite a bit are are happy to get off of 35. It is horrible. So, Governor Perry was trying to do something about the problem that is eventually needing fixing.
Oh, and please pay attention to the underlined script.
What a load of spin, east-west roads kinda kill that idea eh. Perry liked NAFTA as did Bush, it is public record, trying to say otherwise is an outright Lie.
Casper
From what I understand, all Perry has done is entice jobs to Texas from other states (that strategy obviously wouldn't work for a President of all states), and got lucky by with the oil industry doing well in Texas. But high unemployment is still an issue in TX. It's not like they have 3% unemployment there!
If Texas's unemployment rate was 4%, I wouldn't care if it had the highest percentage of people earning minimum wage. However, it doesn't and they have a high unemployment rate of 8.2%, which is only 1% less than the national average, yet they have the highest percentage of people making minimum wage. No thanks! Also, most of the new jobs came from oil and Federal subsidies.
Business' have moved here because of our lower taxes and fees.
Our manufactured goods like electronics, chemicals, and machinery account for a bigger chunk of our exports than petroleum does.
We have had an upsurge is natural gas production. And we have focused more on services and technology than on intuition and wildcatting in regard to our energy complex.
Our housing market has done well because Texas law prohibits consumers from using home-equity lines of credit to increase borrowing to more than 80 percent of the value of their homes.
Texas also has it's own electricity grid which isn't connected to neighboring states. We can build transmission lines without worrying about federal jurisdiction or consulting other states. We have also created around 10,000 jobs with wind energy production.
If people want to say it's because of the oil and military, well, they need to look at California who is not faring well:
Third largest oil producing state in the country behind Texas and Alaska.
Thirty-two military bases - Edwards AFB, Travis AFB, Vandenberg AFB, Camp Pendleton, the Presidio of Monterey, Fort Irwin, and the San Diego and Coronado navel bases, which are the largest navel installations in the country.
Fifteen military installations in Texas.
Home to the largest aerospace and high-tech contractors in the nation - Rockwell Int'l, Lockheed and Northrop, which are major defense contractors.
Now, what could be the problem here? Oh, it's a lack of leadership. Darn, the cat's out of the bag.
No one was going to get approved for an opt out and we know it, why you think the idea was killed, outrage by the right and left.
Caspr
You aren't telling the truth here. There was an opt out as there are for all other vaccines they think we need. The homeschool industry was on this like a duck on a junebug and so I know it to be true. Stop lying or are you Debbie Wasserman in disquise?
Business' have moved here because of our lower taxes and fees.
Cheap labor, corporation friendly laws. But despite of thriving economy... the financial state of the state is horrible, probably worse than California despite not being dependent on tech sector as CA has traditionally been.
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