Stimulus Rejection: Governor Perry Messes With Texans
Posted on | March 13, 2009 |
Standing by your ideals is an honorable goal. And even though I don’t applaud everyone’s ideals, I do appreciate when people stand by them. There is an exception to this applause though and that comes when a person’s need to stand by his or her ideals causes others harm. And that’s exactly what Governor Perry of Texas has done.
In an attempt to protest the strings that are allegedly attached to the stimulus money dealing with unemployment, Texas Governor Rick Perry has turned the money down:
He said the federal provisions would require unprecedented changes in state rules on who is eligible for unemployment payments. He also argued that the funds – which Democrats say would update benefits so that more women, elderly and student workers could qualify – would place additional burdens on businesses, leaving them to pay the added costs when the federal money ran out.
Instead, businesses should be able to use the money to create jobs, Perry said.
Perhaps what Perry is unable to grasp is that no one is going to create jobs in a climate where people are afraid to spend money on goods and services because such jobs would be fleeting at best.
And what are these measures that Gov. Perry finds so disturbing as to dismiss the stimulus money related to unemployment all together?
Provisions in the federal bill allow Texas to receive $556 million if it broadens its eligibility – for instance, lets part-time workers collect benefits even if they search for less than full-time work, and grants extended benefits to people in retraining programs.
The state also would have to consider recent wages in calculating a laid-off worker’s income, not the current method that can go back nearly 18 months.
OH MY LORD! NOT EXTENSION OF BENEFITS FOR PEOPLE IN RETRAINING PROGRAMS!!!! The world will come to an end if businesses (many of whom contributed to the economic bubble and burst that led to this situation in the first place) are required to pony up to train the workers they once employed and then abandoned. It’s a good thing Governor Perry has been against this stimulus from the start and has finally found his loophole to simultaneously screw the people of Texas while securing a higher ranking in his party of fools who wish to discredit any attempt to make the economy better as a way to secure voters in 2010.
What the GOP doesn’t get may not hurt the party elite, but it sure might hurt you.
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March 14th, 2009 @ 5:28 am
Gov. Good Hair is running for president. Now he can argue that Obama's "socialist" policies haven't fixed anything but lordy lordy he didn't take that money. At least that's what he and Mark Sanford and the rest of the 2012 wannabes are hoping. And it doesn't matter because the state legislatures will vote to override the governors
' cynical decisions.