A NOTE TO FELLOW TEXANS:

Don't Be an Idiot!  Know the Facts!

Perry is spinning tales about the Texas budget deficit.  By understating the actual figures, he is trying to justify not raising taxes.(http://www.texasobserver.org/forrestforthetrees/krugman-gets-it-right-on-texas-budget-crisis)

TO GOVERNOR PERRY:  “Listen, Bud, the public will eventually wise up to your little ‘Texas Two-Step’!!!  If we are simply facing a 10% budget short fall thanks to your wonderful fiscal policies, someone better reinvent the math!  (http://billwhitefortexas.com/HEcuts.pdf.)

“Also, your grandeur attitude about your position is getting old…years ago.  Surprisingly, Texas does not have a government by the governor, of the governor and for the governor’s friends.  If paying a little higher tax rate will save thousands of teachers’ jobs and avoid plunging our already bottom ranking school system further into the brink, let’s do it!  You might even save an overtaxed social services system further strain by NOT throwing a bunch of qualified teachers on the unemployment roles.”