Rick Perry, David Dewhurst, and Gobs of Money
Rick Perry and David Dewhurst have got themselves enough money to burn a wet elephant.
Rick Perry is very cool at setting up slush funds like the cancer research bond money that he handed out to his friends and donors with no research being done to cure cancer. I am convinced that every time someone in Texas dies of cancer, God puts a little X by Rick Perry’s name.
And another of his slush funds is The Enterprise Fund, which was supposed to bring jobs and business to Texas. The Texas Enterprise Fund is working very well —- for Rick Perry.
Texas’ top three lawmakers have collected more than $3.6 million in contributions from donors affiliated with companies that received millions in grants from a state incentive program, according to a new study from a state watchdog group.
The study, released Monday by Texans for Public Justice, delves deep into the political spending of folks associated with 38 projects that drew a total of roughly $307 million in state grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, a job creation program that has drawn the ire of lawmakers this session because of a perceived lack of transparency.
Rick Perry has received $2 million in kickbacks. Lt. Gov David Dewhurst pulled in $1.3 million and 90% of the $232,800 that came back to Joe Strauss came after he was elected Speaker of the Texas House.
Meanwhile, Texas schoolchildren and people on Medicaid are suffering. But Rick has to have some walking around money. He knows it takes money to make money and Rick Perry became a millionaire while never having a job off the public teat in his life. You can’t do that by accident. That takes some kickbacks.
You can have educated children or Rick Perry skimming off the top. Your choice, Texas.
Thanks to Frank for the heads up.
“Mr. X, may we ask you a question?
It’s amazing, is it not,
That the city pays you slightly less than fifty bucks a week,
Yet you’ve purchased a private yacht?”
“I am positive your Honor must be joking!
Any working man can do what I have done.
For a month or two I simply gave up smoking,
And I put my extra pennies one by one
“Into a little tin box,
A little tin box
That a little tin key unlocks.
There is nothing unorthodox
About a little tin box.
In a little tin box.
A little tin box
That a little tin key unlocks.
There is honor and purity,
Lots of security,
In a little tin box.”
http://www.lyricszoo.com/sheldon-harnick/act-2-little-tin-box-howard-da-silva-chor/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsC8cKxSjfk
1Isn’t it amazing that if you persist in following the money you will find out what goes on in government. When Jed Bush appeared in Texas preaching the benefits of Charter Schools and home education over the Internet, I wasn’t surprised to find the Foundation for Excellence in Education is owned by Jeb Bush. The foundation is involved with lobbying state governments for Charter Schools and illegally writing laws for some states. Guess what. George W.’s brother Neal owns Ignite! Education which develops products for computerized education. Republicans are Hell bent on turning education over to private industry. I can’t imagine that there will be any Democrats left after all of our children are educated by republican owned education firms. This approaches a 21st century version of Hitler’s Youth.
2I don’t care how many X’s are in someone’s ledger: if he doesn’t go to jail, he gets away with it!
3It would be good to hear more from Texans for Publlc Justice and more about the massive fraud that’s going on there. Quite a few candidates for the Golden Fleece Awards.
4Speaking of cancer, y’all know the other day we all fell all over ourselves (well, I did) about all the cancer clinics not giving chemo any more? Well, the clinic where I went for six months of chemo, and likely some others, are still giving chemo to all their patients and working on an official statement. My neighbor said that ABC News and then CNN are the ones who put that out. Not saying everything is hunky dory, just saying that it is a good idea to check some more. My neighbor is also madder about the chained CPI than anything else at the moment and the fact that he sees plenty of tax returns of rich and poor (he works for the IRS) and then he’s mad all over again. Myself, I’m working on the Great American Juvenile Novel series, part 2, so I can get independently wealthy. How are y’all getting wealthy?
5Is there no way to put these scoundrels in jail where they belong?!? (I used they word “scoundrels” to avoid the really offensive language that originally popped into my head.)
6Has Rick Perry ever not been on the gubmint tit? I know, Socialism for the rich and “free enterprise” for everyone else.
7WHY IS THIS LEGAL? That’s what I’d like to know. Anyone?
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