Out with the old; in with the new. Isn’t that tea party mantra? Bring us your tired (of deficits), your weary (of taxes), your witchy masses. We will be sure they are elected – despite whether qualified in the understanding our basic Constitutional underpinnings (see my blog of October 21, 2010). So it must be time for change, right? Not in Texas.
Taking over the office of Governor in December 2000 following the departure of “W” for D.C., Rick Perry has the notable distinction of being Texas’ longest serving governor. You do realize of course, that Perry runs on an anti-establishment platform…or shall I say anti-Washington. Perry has essentially spent his career as a Texas politician.
So after almost ten years, how has the anti-government, career politician done with the Texas deficit? In 2001, Texas had about $13.5 billion in outstanding debt (about $16.5B in today’s dollars). According to the Texas Bond Review Board, in August 2009, outstanding bonds and notes stood at $34.5 billion. Ok, so I’m an architect, not a mathematician, but according to my calculations that’s roughly double. DOUBLE the debt. Sarah Palin, where are you when we need you most?! (Oops, wrong call to make because anti-establishment, stop these liberals from running us into debt Palin stumped for…, you got it: Rick Perry.)
So basically our (mostly GOP) tea partiers are all for change in government (except when they’re not).
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