In case you didn’t hear, we’re digging up roads in Texas and replacing them with gravel because we can’t afford the damn upkeep on roads.

Texas is so poor that we can’t even afford to go window shopping.  Somalia?  Richer than Texas and with better government to boot.

Now I know that we can afford to send Governor Perry all over the country with his shiny face making teevee commercials bragging about low taxes in Texas and those same commercials soon become fodder for late night comedians.  We can afford that.

We can also afford to turn our noses up at $1 billion for Medicaid.  Since those people will be treated in emergency rooms for free, everybody’s health insurance, local taxes, and medical bills will go up.  But we don’t need no damn $1 billion of our own tax dollars coming back to Texas.  No sireee.

And the latest we can afford is $4 million for Attorney General Greg Abbott to sue the federal government so he can run for Governor on the evils of the federal government.

But that ain’t all —

Abbott’s office additionally has spent nearly $1.9 million defending the state in another case brought by minority and civil rights groups over redistricting. That amount is not included in the $4 million tally, which includes only lawsuits Abbott initiated.

I know y’all were all excited when Rick Perry decided not to run for Governor again.  I’m just tellin’ ya:  Greg Abbott is Rick Perry with a mean streak.  We have jumped from the frying pan into the pits of hell.

Texas cannot afford roads but we most certainly can afford Republican political campaigns with our tax dollars.

And that makes us Texas Proud!