Tuesday, August 9, 2011

RICK PERRY 's TEXAS

Several interesting articles on the Internet illuminate the " Stewardship of Rick Perry over the last 12 years and highlight his personal commitment to the state's less fortunate. It will be interesting to see how the media handles this and how Perry answers what is surely coming.
In many respects, Texas is the last place in the Union you would want to be if you are poor:

* 17.3 % of the state lives in poverty.........4.26 million people
* 66 % of Latino children and 59 % of black children live in low income families
* 28 % or 6.1 million people have NO health insurance
* The average monthly benefit for WIC ( Women-Infants-Children ) payments is $ 26.86
That's right, $ 26.86 PER MONTH, the lowest in the nation. But, Texas is not just last in
WIC payments.
* LAST in workman's compensation
* LAST in pre natal care for women
* LAST in non elderly health care for women
* LAST in mental health care
* 49 th in state spending for Medicaid

Now, the crux of my comments. Perry is Governor but many of the policies were the result of legislation attempting to shift the burden of the poor and less fortunate on to faith based groups and individuals and away from the Texas Government. O.K . So , let's see how Rick perry personally has responded to his ongoing mandate to make Texas better for business and how he personally has supported the less fortunate who increasingly are turned away by his state.

Perry lives in a $ 10,000 per month state mansion..........No mortgage
Perry receives free health care from the state
Perry has no transportation costs
Perry receives free utilities
Perry has no property taxes
Perry has no state income tax
Perry receives food free

You would think Rick Perry has a LOT left over each month to help the poor transitioning to his new state environment where the burden of the poor is moved to the support of faith based groups and individuals that he spoke to last Saturday at The Response. Let' s see

In 2007, Perry made $ 1,092,810 according to the IRS. He gave his church $ 90

In 2008, Perry made $ 277,677. He gave his church $ 2,850

In 2009, Perry made $ 200,370. He gave his church.........$ 0

In the entire 10 years from 2000 to 2009, while Governor of Texas with, essentially NO EXPENSES, Rick perry made $ 2,694,253. He gave his church $ 14,293. He also wrote of $ 30,768 to Goodwill.
Curious dichotomy of interests. It says much about the character we watched at The Response on Saturday and that we'll see a lot of over the next 6 months.

CraigS



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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting! I'm not a proponent of gov't's responsibility to take care of everyone. It is interesting that he donates very little to charity. Many will see the talk doesn't match the walk.

Did you email your thoughts on Perry to his fan, Glenn Beck?

larry said...

The MSM must be saving all this until he officially is a candidate or perhaps they want him to be the nominee because he'd be the easiest to beat for Obama.

Not much in that resume to draw in independents.

Anonymous said...

You know, if Huck was in the race, I would even be willing to vote for Huck over Perry. That is how much I dislike Perry.

Anonymous said...

Dan, me too. Hard to believe someone could make Huck look good.

Craig, brutal info here. Thanks for putting this together.

-Martha

ttyler5 Editor said...

What, are you complaining because Texas hasn't driven itself into a Kalifornia Krisis by wasting billions on welfare programs and financing the incredibly expensive bureaucracies that come with these idiotic programs?

Are you suggesting that Texas and US taxpayers ought to be paying the bills for the illegal immigrants, who make up a very large portion of the "poor" people you describe below?

This is all GOOD STUFF:

* 17.3 % of the state lives in poverty.........4.26 million people

A large portion are illegals and do not belong here. And a very large proportion are welfare bums who have refused to do anything to better themselves.

* 66 % of Latino children and 59 % of black children live in low income families

The majority of those kids are anchor babies and come from families with little or no regard for education and bettering themselves.

* 28 % or 6.1 million people have NO health insurance

Most of them are waiting for the government to buy it for them, in the meantime the baby is sleeping in the box the new LCD TV came in.


* The average monthly benefit for WIC ( Women-Infants-Children ) payments is $ 26.86
That's right, $ 26.86 PER MONTH, the lowest in the nation. But, Texas is not just last in
WIC payments.

So we are supposed to subsidize the illegal anchor babies as well as the multiple illegitimate births of the welfare mothers?


* LAST in workman's compensation
Good! get on the next job!

* LAST in pre natal care for women
-- Again, we are expected to pay for everything for the welfare class?

* LAST in non elderly health care for women
Same issue, welfare mothers!

* LAST in mental health care
--- So we are supposed to subsidize mental health care too?

* 49 th in state spending for Medicaid
Same issue! Why are we supposed to subsidize the "live off the government" class?

Peter_Overson said...

Wow, the amount of charitable contributions compared to the income over that ten-year period is quite simply unacceptable. Do you have links to the tax returns that show it?

Being a tax accountant, I pride myself on being able to read a tax return and understand (maybe) what's going on.