"It is very strange as a Texan to read people in other states lecturing us about how Texas’s supposed good economy is all a mirage.
I mean, I’m right here in Texas and I know what both a good economy and bad economy look like in Texas. Being told by people out of state that Texas doesn’t have a good economy right now is akin to someone on the Internet claiming that it’s raining cats and dogs in Austin when I can look out my window and see sunshine and clear blue skies.
Most of these weird arguments are coming from leftists whistling past the graveyard. Texas governor Rick Perry is basing his presidential aspirations on Texas’s relatively sound economy, so that has brought a lot of delusional people out of the woodwork, all desperately trying to sell the idea that the Texas economy actually sucks. Well, it doesn’t.
In reality, the strongest argument against Perry is that Texas has the weakest governor of any of the states, so he can’t claim the primary credit for Texas’s performance as he might in other states."............
lol Someone is going to have to explain what makes one state governor weak?
Do they still get a veto? Do they propose a budget? Do they have direct executive control or are the bureaucrats running things?
And part of what makes Texas's economy strong is $100 oil. So Obama shutting down gulf drilling helped pump up the land based drilling in Texas. And contrary to LJ's opinion, oil drilling jobs are some good money. More than I make.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
