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from the rainy day fund to give them money they expended 2 years ago.
Boutons, do you even read the articles you post? When they needed more money they got more money.‘No financial impediment’
But the politicians who crafted Texas’ current budget say the state will have no problem paying to fight these fires.
The forest service saw its budget cut from $117.7 million to $83 million, but the Texas Legislature threw it an extra $121 million this year, to cover its firefighting costs over the last two years, the Houston Chronicle reported. Much of that came from the state’s rainy day fund, Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden (R-Bryan) told the Chronicle.
from the rainy day fund to give them money they expended 2 years ago.
Do you know what a BUDGET is? It's ANTICIPATED spending based on ANTICIPATED need. With all the fires they needed more money and got more money. I'd a lot rather they do it that way than give them more than they need in a wet (no fires) year which would just be pissed off. Governmental organizations never spend less than they have in their budget.
non sequitor, but funny.
he kinda reminds me of the prez on the dead zone.
ok, but Repuglic of TX President Jimmy Ricky is asking non-Texans to pay for the fire costs. I thought TXans were badass rugged individualists who could take care of themselves without being nannied by the Feds?
The money they got was the rainy day fund it isn't part of the budget. AND it was for charges from 2 years ago.
Hunger Rate es In Rick Perry’s Texas, Even As National Rate Holds Steady
But one glaring exception was the state of Texas, which has been hailed by Gov. Rick Perry (R) as a model for the rest of the nation during these tough economic times:
Built on a measure called “food insecurity,” the study was based on a survey of 45,000 households during the 2010 census, and found 14.5 percent of households had difficulty meeting their food needs — a statistic that was “essentially unchanged” from 2009, according to the agency. Last year saw a decline in the proportion of households with “severe” food insecurity across the country, too.
In Texas, however, the three-year average food insecurity rate did increase, from 17.4 percent in 2007-2009 to the current rate of 18.8 percent in 2008-2010, according to the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities.
Mississippi is the only state with a worse food insecurity rate than Texas. The number of people on food stamps in Texas rose 2.8 percent between 2009 and 2010, and is now a staggering 15.6 percent of the state’s population. The increase was one of the highest in the nation.
Austin Food Bank’s John Turner says it’s no coincidence that Texas and Mississippi also lead the country in low-wage jobs. For many hard-working Texans, minimum wage jobs just don’t pay enough to stave off hunger. “The vast majority of the 48,000 central Texans this food bank serves every week are employed, hard-working men and women who are just not earning a living wage,”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...dy-nationwide/
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dumb Jimmy Ricky's lips are moving == he's lying.
"food insecurity" ????
according to the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities.
What crap
Perry is his own worse enema, err....enemy.
How so? Goes along with persistently high rates un/underemployment.
So why are the ones with the most "food insecurity" usually the fattest?
why is it crap?
or is it just another right-winger denying that food insecurity, poverty are plentiful and that (good paying, living-wage) jobs are scarce now in good ol' TX?
"most "food insecurity" usually the fattest?"
because cheap food is dead, ty, industrial packaged subsidized (corn,soy) pathogenic food in convenience stores and on 90% of (wal-mart) shelves.
Care to support that?
C'mon. We aren't talkin Biafran babies here.
So what?
We're talking about fellow Americans who can't put food on the table. Why do you hate them so much?
There he goes again.
As long as there aren't African-African skeletal, diseased, distended-stomach kids among African-Americans, then all is OK in America.
If they can't put food on the table it means they are stupider than the 45 million people that already use the SNAP program.
Cry me a ing river.
Despite 41 DNA Exonerations In Texas In Last 9 Years, Perry Says He Never Loses Sleep Over Executing The Innocent
That’s despite the fact that during Perry’s tenure as governor, DNA evidence has exonerated at least 41 people convicted in Texas, Scott Horton writes in Harper’s. According to the Innocence Project, “more people have been freed through DNA testing in Texas than in any other state in the country, and these exonerations have revealed deep flaws in the state’s criminal justice system.” Some 85 percent of wrongful convictions in Texas, or 35 of the 41 cases, are due to mistaken eyewitness identifications.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-the-innocent/
Dang, CC is one cold mofo.
Not being able to eat without state assistance is pretty much the definition of food insecurity.
BTW, why do you hate stupid people?
Getting a Lone Star card damn sure sounds like food security to me.
I don't hate stupid people, I just don't give a about them.
You're not required to care. Thanks at least for having the decency not to pretend you're compassionate.
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