Interesting that low wage jobs are defined by people living outside of TX and ignore the cost of living in TX and as well as ignore who has those jobs. Amazing how so many focus on the low end but not the Fortune 500 companies moving to TX and the growth in the non energy sector in TX that doesn't pay low wages, healthcare and tech fields.
The analysis was based on TX figures. What the cost of living is in TX.
Plus, what are those jobs that you mentioned paying in TX vs the rest of the country? And how many of those jobs being produced compare to the rest of the nation? You keep saying that those are a major part of the job growth in TX, yet haven't shown them in any comparison to the rest of the country.
Education is a local issue and there is nothing to prevent local school districts from getting funds from their community and that happens all the time. Cuts in state funding for education only impacts those who believe it is the government's responsibility to pay for everything that goes on in a school district. School Districts all over TX are going to their community seeking funds and getting most of what they want.
Education affects everyone.
Plus, those additional tax burdens placed on people by their local governments would also have to be brought up then in comparison to what the total tax burden is for people from other states. A state government isn't really helping their people by having no income taxes (even though it has been shown that TX makes up for no income taxes by having higher taxes/fees in other places) if they have to make up for those by paying much higher taxes locally than if they had to pay those income taxes.
You seem to have that entitlement mentality which I find interesting from someone in the military. People of TX know that health insurance is a personal responsibility not a govt. responsibility. The best way to lower costs is to actually address them including the cost of illegal immigrants getting ER service.
On the contrary, I'm practical. I understand that what a person can do and what they are able to do are not the same thing. I also understand that by not providing affordable medical care for the poorest people in this country, we are causing our own financial hardships. And that much of the cost of medical care is not due to government policies, as the rich people like to claim, but rather due to corporate greed by many parts of the medical industry.
The best medical care I have ever had was a form socialized medicine because that is what the military medical is.
I don't see where your claims of what Perry did regarding jobs is different from the claims made of other politicians as well including Obama. As for helping pharma companies, imagine that a Governor helping business that employs people?
What I dismiss is that which is irrelevant. Perry cannot do the harm that you believe he can do by having beliefs contrary to yours.
He was helping the pharma company make bigger profits, which is not the same as actually employing more people. It is much more likely that most of that money from the mandate was likely going to make a few people richer, not being distributed evenly to actually help those lower down. And the mandate was in direct contradiction to small government involvement, which is a principle that Perry espouses.
Those beliefs that are important to me that Perry ignores are important to a good portion of the US, especially people who aren't Party Republicans or blinded by religious beliefs or greed. That is a pretty significant portion of the country.
