Rick Perry Sought Federal Money Before Condemning It

Time:

In his presidential-campaign kickoff on Aug. 13, Texas Governor Rick Perry burnished his conservative credentials by attacking the idea of deficit stimulus spending. “Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed,” he said.

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Comments

[SurfinSteve]

07:36 PM on 08/17/2011

Rick Perry is right. If we just legalized slavery, unemployment would surely disappear. Just don't expect any time off, or freedom.

[spkman]

07:14 PM on 08/17/2011

This one is even more clear Governor Perry.

"Texas's love/hate relationship with Washington's money."

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry likes to tell Washington to stop meddling in state affairs. He vocally opposed the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus program to spur the economy and assist cash-strapped states.

Perry also likes to trumpet that his state balanced its budget in 2009, while keeping billions in its rainy day fund.
But he couldn't have done that without a lot of help from ... guess where? Washington.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/23/news/economy/texas_perry_budget_stimulus/index.htm

[trunpace]

07:03 PM on 08/17/2011

Rick Perry as much as admitted that he was incapable of governing when he sponsored that prayer rally to pray for assistance to a supernatural god.

[glomtt]

06:46 PM on 08/17/2011

Hypocrite, he used the Stimulus Funds to balance his budget now he's calling it a failed stimulus!

[heronpoint]

06:39 PM on 08/17/2011

Posted at TPM (and cross-posted/similar post at Think Progress)

CHART OF THE DAY: *Government* Jobs Led To Perry’s Economic Boom

“Despite being one of the loudest critics of President Obama's stimulus, Perry used billions of dollars of federal money to patch Texas' budget shortfalls, and was thus able to create and maintain lots and lots of public sector jobs. In fact, if you look at net job creation between 2007 and 2010, it's clear the only thing keeping Texas buoyant was government jobs. “

[Allablaze]

06:19 PM on 08/17/2011

Any bets on how long before this bozo withdraws his candidacy.

[sindurrella]

06:54 PM on 08/17/2011

He's not bright enough to withdraw. He believes his own hype.

[Peter Paul Hoffman]

06:01 PM on 08/17/2011

If this guy gets the GOP Primary Nomination, will he be able to debate Obama?? The questions begs to be asked..With all the Fodder against this guy does Obama have the heart to debate this guy?

[Left of Center]

06:09 PM on 08/17/2011

He'll look just as stupid as Palin did in her debate with Biden! For that matter, so will any of the 2012 Republicorp candidates. That is why none of them want to be covered by the "lamestream" media, they cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance when reality media confronts them with their own hypocrisy!

[Shanta Nunn-Baro]

05:44 PM on 08/17/2011

A very dangerous scary man.

[wonderfullone]

11:03 PM on 08/17/2011

About as scary as the voters that will vote for him.

[WTxIndependent]

05:43 PM on 08/17/2011

We've all heard the story of the panhandler that drives off to his house in a Mercedes at the end of the day...

[liberalbarbwire]

05:34 PM on 08/17/2011

Even as Perry requested the Recovery Act money, he railed against it. On the very same day he asked for the funds, he set up a petition titled "No Government Bailouts."

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/23/news/economy/texas_perry_budget_stimulus/index.htm

[sindurrella]

06:57 PM on 08/17/2011

You can't be a Republican until you take the Hypocritical oath.

[liberalbarbwire]

05:32 PM on 08/17/2011

Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures

[liberalbarbwire]

05:29 PM on 08/17/2011

Gov. Rick Perry used federal stimulus money to pay 97 percent of Texas's budget shortfall in fiscal 2010
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/01/stimulus-hating-gov-rick-perry-used-stimulus-to-balance-texas-budget/21369/

[Texas13]

05:42 PM on 08/17/2011

and then he started laying off teachers... because we all know it's teachers and public workers that are taking our system down..... please make him go away....... It is not even a week and I am so over him!!

[RobbieB]

05:45 PM on 08/17/2011

I was over him before he announced. Texas, where everything is bigger, especially the hypocricy.

[jdevans]

06:19 PM on 08/17/2011

Perry was laying off teachers to getting even with them for giving him Ds and Fs in college.

[papa224u]

04:56 PM on 08/17/2011

These people are made of HYPOCRISY!

[oldgeek1]

04:27 PM on 08/17/2011

Blaming the Federal Reserve should tell anyone who reads that Perry does not know what he is talking about and the quality of the people he is trying to appeal to.

[Luke008]

04:19 PM on 08/17/2011

Obama was going to spend the money anyway so why shouldn`t Texas takes back its share of Fed taxes?

[oldgeek1]

04:31 PM on 08/17/2011

Take a look at how much the Federal Government already spends in Texas! Begin with Military bases, then move to NASA, Aid to Farmers, then go visit the River Walk in San Ana then all the tax breaks to the oil companies.

[papa224u]

04:52 PM on 08/17/2011

WELLLL be honest about it, OHH I forgot you don't know what that means!