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To: bentway who wrote (868635)	6/27/2015 9:13:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579131

My point. Yes Texas is different for reasons other than governance. But that doesn't stop them from trying. When Smirk rolled into office, Texas had a billion dollar surplus. Within a year, we were running a billion dollar deficit. Story sound familiar? Sort of like at the end of the last Ice Age, every time homo sapiens moved into a new area, the megafauna vanished within a few centuries. Strange coincidence or...? By the time we foisted Dubya off onto the rest of the country, the state was a basket case. The state faced double-digit budget cuts until the fracking boom started to take off. They never got around to addressing the infrastructure backlog because if you are a Republican and tax receipts start to rise after years of tight budgets, do you address those issues that were backburnered or delayed or do you cut more taxes? That is a rhetorical question. It is like 2 year olds are in control of the state house. Fortunately we had adults running the state before the Republican takeover, well often at least, and Texas is no longer only dependent on oil and farming. Unlike Louisiana. It is also a bigger economy so it is harder to damage. But harder != impossible...