WEDNESDAY, AUG 24, 2011
The problem is Texanism -- not Texans
Talking up secession while taking more than $6 billion in stimulus cash from Obama? Pure Texanism in action
BY GENE LYONS
Rick Perry
See, it's not Texans but the ideology of Texanism that's the problem. Another Lone Star patriot favored me with a bunch of insulting messages premised upon the widely believed fiction that Perry refused federal stimulus funds, resulting in an economic boom.
In fact, Texas financed $6.4 billion of its $6.6 billion budget shortfall in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 with cash from President Obama's 2009 Recovery Act. On the same day Perry accepted the funds, he set up an online petition titled
"No Government Bailouts." Pure Texanism in action.