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3. In my opinion, if it were not for oil and gas, Texas would have nothing but the low pay jobs and
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 03:37 PM
Apr 2014

below minimum wage jobs that Rick Perry has created. Giving tax abatements to businesses that run off from paying their taxes when they finally do come due, is a laughing matter to New Yorkers and other state officials and the populous as a whole. Everybody but Perry, knows what a buffoon is.

A third world country would use its Rainy Day Fund on its children, not on repairing the gas fracking truck destruction of county roads, and not on creating fracking water through reservoirs. The people of West and Central Texas know that the desert is encroaching from west to east, across Texas, and up the Great Plains as the results of climate change. Rainfall is shifting eastward too. Water shortages are going to replace grassy lawns with desert vegetation.

Why would anyone would want to place their future and the future of their children in the hands of a Secessionist?

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