President Obama says Gov. Perry used stimulus fund to help balance budget

[sonias]

PolitiFact Check 4/24/11

President Obama says Gov. Perry used stimulus fund to help balance budget, then started 'blaming' federal lawmakers who voted for legislation

Asked by a Dallas television reporter whether he agreed with Texas leaders that the federal government should take some governing cues from the Lone Star State, President Barack Obama said he saw "a little inconsistency" in that position.

"Keep in mind, Gov. (Rick) Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help," Obama said during an April 18 interview with WFAA reporter Brad Watson at the White House.

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...but Obama is correct that he accepted stimulus money that was used to help balance the budget.

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We rate the statement Mostly True.

Obama calling out Perry's two faced gimme mouth.

:kick:

[Richardo]

1. Booya!

:applause:

[WatsonT]

2. Texas gets back about 95 cents for every dollar it pays in federal taxes

I wonder how much that is ever year.

[sonias]

6. We're getting back more each year since about 2008

See this thread about Rachel Maddow's comment about Texas. PolitiFact Check did that one too and found she's right also.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says Texas routinely receives more federal dollars than Texans pay in federal taxes
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In fiscal 2009, the IRS collected about $163 billion from Texans and the state received about $224 billion, for a net gain of $61 billion. Federal spending in Texas also exceeded tax payments in 2008 by $8 billion. It was the other way around in 2006 and 2007, when tax payments by Texans exceeded federal spending by a total of about $47 billion.

:thumbsup:

[Horse with no Name]

3. THANK YOU!

Not to mention that he pulled money out of the school budget and replaced it with stimulus money and now is refusing to put the money back.
Now everyone (with the help of the Texas/National media) is riding the meme that Obama TOOK state funds away from the school creating the crisis they are in now.
Ummm...excuse me...Perry made this mess.

It is nice to see this being called out but I doubt will make WFAA.:(

[kjackson227]

4. Too bad that this fact will fall on deaf ears of the tea bagger voters of the state. eom

[sonias]

5. Exactly - they can't handle facts

That camp will believe any lie that gets repeated often enough - like Obama won't show his birth certificate, or 90% of what Planned Parenthood does are abortion services.

They live in a world of their own. :crazy:

[thanks_imjustlurking]

7. Now *that's* my prez!

:applause:

[white cloud]

8. Chicken hawk can't stand the truth.

Look at Perrys platform of 5b surplus

[sonias]

9. Perry is actually a truth vampire

Sucks the living breathing life out of the truth, and either kills it or turns it into a lie that won't die.

We need so much sunshine in that Governor's office to disinfect the zombie policies that we could use 24 hours of sunshine a day and it would still take decades to clean up the nest of evil.