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Originally Posted by Riot
Newspapers. The unemployment rate rose in June, the 2009-2010-2011 massive budget shortfalls were balanced with millions of federal stimulus dollars (while Perry decried federal spending and the stimulus), and the 2012-2013 budget is 27 million short, causing slashing in education and going to the emergency fund.
Perry has quite a reputation, but it doesn't seem to hold all that true upon close examination.
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Not so much. The unemployment rate in Texas is 8.2%, well below the national rate. Texas is also responsible for half the jobs added nationwide in the period between 2009 and 2011. The population growth in Texas over the last two years has been remarkable.
Perry did not go to the emergency fund, at the risk of being publicly flogged by every teacher in the state. Texas' much ballyhooed "rainy day fund" still exists, even if Perry has earmarked every last dollar in it.