Discussion: Rick Perry Dismisses Income Inequality: 'We Don't Grapple With That' In Texas

[system1]

Discussion for article #231032

[fargo116]

“But he also argued that wages have increased among all household income quartiles since he took office in 2000.”

You tell 'em, Rick! A lot of them get dinner now.

[austin_dave]

The thing about Texans is that they all think we are ALL gonna be rich someday, one way or another. And it’s gonna be great so just hold tight.

[economides]

“Inequality. Huh? We don’t give a rats ass about that here in Texas,” said Perry. “Have you even seen how many retards I executed, down here. Yeehaw.”

[m3man]

What he really meant is "I don’t care about the people who are falling behind, and the wealthy that I do care about don’t give a sh*t about the poor or middle class either.

And as long as I have an ® after my name, poor white people will vote for me because I am against giving their money to poor blacks and browns.

Plus, the Texas Miracle economy runs on the backs of underpaid hispanics. Inequality to them is increased profits for the people I do care about…So what’s the problem?"

[jasper]

I can’t believe he’s using the Bible to justify this type of thinking.

[rudesan]

Right-o. More hours means more wages. Especially for those in the quarry tile business.

[sooner]

“We don’t grapple with that here," he told the Post.

Pretty obvious that you do not grapple with much of anything little Ricky

Not corporate accountability becuz it’s ok to blow up small towns with fertilizer plants.

Not healthcare for the poorest of you becuz Obamacare bad!

Not in education becuz you rank 49th in spending on education.

I could go on and on Rickie but this fairly well sums it up.

How’s Texas doing? Not so great: The state ranks 50th in percentage of high school graduates among its populace high school graduation rate, first in amount of carbon emissions, first in hazardous waste produced, last in voter turnout, first in percentage of people without health insurance, and second in percentage of uninsured kids.

Texas on the Brink: We Can Do Better

http://texaslsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/texasonthebrink.pdf

You’ve been goobernor for what…fourteen years?

And you want to do for 'Murica what you’ve done for Tejas?

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NO THANKS little Rickie…I don’t want any of that smelly heap you’ve served up!

[estamm]

Texas may be 5th in income inequality, but it is 1st in having douchebag governors. Go Texas!

[scuttlebut]

“We don’t grapple with that here…”

Apparently you don’t grapple much with reality either, professor.

[george_c]

Intelligence inequality – there’s the rub. And they don’t grapple with that much either.

[Dwig3d]

Perry, part of the Holy Trinity of Stupid in Texas, along with Cruz and Gohmert

[littlegirlblue]

It’s time to recall what the late Molly Ivins said referring to a bush but applicable here.

“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States please pay attention.”

[sniffit]

Working as intended.

[victorabrahamsen]

A tale of two states?

“At each dinner — funded by Texans for Rick Perry — he plays a three-minute, amped-up video promoting his economic legacy of transforming Texas into ‘a haven of opportunity’ with ‘unparalleled prosperity.’”

“In 2010, the poverty rate in Texas was 14.4 percent. The rate dropped to 10.8 percent for non-Hispanic whites but soared to 27.1 percent for blacks and 24.8 percent for Hispanics, according to the Census Bureau.”

Opportunity for some. For everyone else? Umm… oops.

[jw1]

Rick Perry Dismisses Income Inequality: ‘We Don’t Grapple With That’ In Texas

So what’s the contingency Gov?
Cuz’ the glasses haven’t helped.

jw1

[chuck_voellinger]

Shorter Perry: “we don’t grapple with it because we just ignore it”.

As someone who lives Tejas and has for 34 years, I can assure you the 1/4 of folks who don’t have health insurance ( the highest per capita in the nation) are mostly poor or working poor. All hair, no cattle.

[Patriott]

Translation:

I got mine and am busy passing laws that make sure I keep mine [and some of yours]. Hunger? The great State of Texan pays for all my meals too. So what’s the problem again?

[rbinnc]

Complete quote: “Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion,” Perry told the Washington Post.

Funny how he does not mention this: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” - Matthew 19:23-24

But it is tea-bagger run Texas, they probably have “Texas Bibles” that have purged such pesky passages. You know, like they have done with middle and high school history books.

[darrtown]

Why can’t you believe it. People pick and choose quotes out of context in the Bible all the time. TV preachers and mega church pastors do it for a living. And they con their adoring flock to hand over huge amounts of money based on those cherry picked quotes.