‘Cuz We’re Bidness Friendly, Y’all.
A dozen Texas lawmakers sent a letter to three Connecticut gun manufacturers urging them to relocate to Texas because:
1. We have plenty of crazy people.
2. We have plenty of guns.
3. So what we need is more crazy people with more guns.
Blabbering Blake
The best thing about this letter is that it’s a handy list of the Dozen Dopes in the Texas congressional delegation, with Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi as their leader. The dozen Texas congressvarmints who signed this letter have a pretty decent IQ if you add them all together.
You can read the letter right here. I don’t have to read it because I know what it says …
It says, “Okay, so we have crappy education and even worse health care and most of our bridges are falling down and we’re tearing up our world-class university system but, Buddy, listen up! You don’t have to pay any taxes because we have the aforementioned infrastructure in Texas. Besides, we rely on poor people to pay the taxes. Plus, there ain’t no regulations. We’ll let you blow up a few small towns like a beer can that was in the paint mixing machine down at the hardware store and do you think we blame you for it? Hell, no. We blame God. So get your butt on down here and leave as big a hole as you need to. We’re Texas. We know more about unregulated bidness than a jackrabbit does about running.”
I can tell you for a dead solid guaranteed fact that those boys who signed that letter had to pay someone to write it for them and will have to hire someone else to read it back to them.
Here’s the paragraph I love best —
The letter itself also spotlights Perry’s business-friendly attitude: “Our governor is committed to providing advantages for manufacturers looking to relocate through initiatives like cash grants, low-interest loans, employee training programs and sales tax exemptions.”
And if you want the Alamo, we’ll give you the damn Alamo.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
If I din’t hafta go to the doc I’d start a long outrageous rant. Maybe later. Refer to my letter never published officially that starts, “Why, Grandma?” We wonder why other countries want to blow us up. Are we lame brained (as opposed to left brained)? Maybe if we quit trying to blow up the world we’d have fewer crazies wanting to blow us up. Rant rant.
Tangential: how’s the protest against the GWB Fancy Comic Book Library going? speaking of blowing countries up…..
1@Marge Wood: I’ll do the rant. I have the time. I was concerned that the idiots from that so-called church in Kansas, were going to come down here, and disrupt things. I think about 4,000 fire fighters discouraged that.
However, and don’t jump to any conclusions yet. It will take me a while to get where I’m going. Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan, who slept on the road by “the ranch” for days to protest that da****d senseless war in Iraq, based on all the lies told by GWB, is there. I read the story a few minutes ago in my local paper. And, I also read a lot of the comments… some of which were not flattering. Well…. a lot weren’t. One person suggested she was a bitter ……. woman….. and I guess losing a son…. in an idiotic senseless war, would tend to make a person bitter. Another suggested if she enjoyed the freedom to protest… she should “thank” a vet. Don’t you know……. how much she would like to be able to thank her son, who was a war casualty, and just never made it to “the vet” stage? I worry about my Houston neighbors. Apparently late night talk shows are there only avenue for information. I don’t know why they would be concerned about (and I’m going to steal this from Brains and Eggs) the Bush Lie – Bury.
Their brains would explode if they read a book.
And, I think that’s evidenced by the stupidity we continue to elect to represent us, in some form or another. The above mentioned, being perfect examples.
2I’d rather pay taxes, have good schools, decent libraries, depend on my local police force and state police for protection.
We have decided to stay up North instead of retire south.
I could not stand having some f these guys represent me.
I would have heartburn 24/7 not just periodically when I browse the internet.
I still cannot understand why the guy that owns the fertilizer factory that decimated the town and killed all those people has not been arrested.
3I’m too lazy to read the letter, but I’ll bet it also says they will let you build your gun factory right between a school and an old folks home because that’s where guns are needed most. I understand the city of West has some vacant property available.
4They need to follow up with letters to people who operate funeral homes, crematoriums, and those who build coffins & urns. Is Perry planning on setting aside the land that was occupied by the West fertilizer company as a cemetary? Texas can be re-branded as Death Valley, kind of like the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley.
5If Perry and your Congresseejits prevail, Texas will be right up there with Bangladesh. Won’t that be nice? Texas can’t turn blue soon enough. I, for one, am planning to help with that effort.
6Sissy asked me remind y’all that Blake’s not actually blood kin.
7Beat me to it, Braxton. I’m sure Sissy and her cousin Genevieve Vaughan are SO proud of this jackass Blake…NOT!
8Oh thank heaven! Sissy was president of my college back in the day, and I was horrified to think that she was related to Blake. She was one smart lady! Do you have to be female to be smart in Texas?
9The letter keeps referring to “the Texas model”, which I take to mean
they look the other way when businesses break the law, civil or moral.
And I echo Diane’s outrage that the owner of that store isn’t facing several dozen charges, including 14 counts of 2nd degree murder.
10Geez. what a missed opportunity! They could have added a great paragraph citing an additional advantage of relocation to Texas.
“We can even help you reduce your land acquisition and construction costs. Dozens – perhaps hundreds – of our small communities have free industrial development land available for your manufacturing, right next door to their existing ammonium nitrate fertilizer plants. Your Texas business neighbors can show you the ropes in how to minimize burdensome government regulations. If you want your business to make a bigger impact, we can help you do it!”
11I don’t see how you can be business-friendly by removing any safeguards to keep their customers alive AND with disposable cash.
12Chip honey, Texas specializes in disposable customers! They take yr money, cause you to die, and you stop complaining! How business friendly can you get?!
13Farenthold missed a big business privatization announcement today. The Bush Presidential Library opened today on the SMU campus, and there are rumors that it will be the first managed by a private entity – a new division of KinderCare.
If true, it would be a first for KinderCare, since it will be their closest location to downtown Dallas. The company studiously avoids operating its centers within inner cities. Maps of Dallas, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, El Paso and even Farenthold’s district of Corpus Christie provide conspicuous examples.
14Oh lord, Ralph W. start the countdown now. Some GOP lawmaker will suggest locating one of the new gun company prospects in West to replace the factory where many worked. It will happen. I just know it.
15Yeah, I agree, and it will probably happen before the dust has settled…is it time to finally give up?! 🙁
16Blake Farenthold a leader? Of what?
17Louie Gohmert apparently refused to sign a letter from the Texas Congressional Caucus inviting a firearms manufacturer to move to Texas. As a Republican and a Texan, I think this is shameful day in East Texas. The time to start preparing for the primary is now. Let’s start talking about the primary on the social media NOW!
18Oh, UmptyDumpty, your ” bigger impact” nearly did me in!
19VeeGee in Vermont, I’m holding you to helping turn Texas blue, check out BATTLEGROUND TEXAS. Thanks for the rant, Miemaw. My doc said I’m fine, go make noise. Well, he did say I’m fine. And lots of my friends hung out at Crawford with Cindy Sheehan.
20Thanks, Marge Wood. I signed on the Battleground Texas as soon as I heard about it. I am semi-retired, but contributing what I can, signing petitions, talking to friends up here who have never heard of it and have only a vague notion of how Texas affects the whole country. I was born in Dallas, so it seems the least I can do.
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