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In reply to the discussion: Business is booming in Texas! [View all]arely staircase
(12,482 posts)63. yeah, its like sweden
I am glad that your socio-economic background allows you to live comfortably in Dallas, but the fact is in my part of rural East Texas Planned Parenthood provides the only health care services for poor women for miles around. And yet Rick Perry has decided to forfeit hundreds of millions of federal dollars in order to defund the program.
He also cut 5 billion dollars from our public schools and has threatened to veto the bill passed this session by the (overwhelmingly GOP legislature) to restore a portion of that funding.
Again, I am sincerely glad you are doing well in our state (welcome), but I work with kids every day whose families are the victims of Rick Perry's "business-friendly" policies.
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That's not a funny cartoon. Using tragic death for a "joke" is just plain mean.
Pterodactyl
Apr 2013
#1
No, not on the same level. Making jokes about dead first reponders is just plain offensive.
Pterodactyl
Apr 2013
#8
I don't know about that. Democrats such as Sen Durbin think something needs to be
neverforget
Apr 2013
#35
Neither is the reality, but that won't stop'm from laughing all the way to the bank...
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Apr 2013
#32
unless you are a kid in public school or a poor woman in need of health care
arely staircase
Apr 2013
#39
Medicaid exists here in Texas. In fact, it applies to assisted living facilities
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#61
Yes, your point is beside MY point. Your "poor women in SE Texas"? They're rich...
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#71
and rick perry is a sorry son of a bitch who couldn't care less who gets blown up
arely staircase
Apr 2013
#20
I wonder if the survivors and families left behind want, or care, about an apology from
jtuck004
Apr 2013
#43
Sometimes satire hits too close to home as when Swift suggested the English take up cannibalism.
gordianot
Apr 2013
#34
They are not saying the firefighters deserved to die but deserved to know what they were getting int
uppityperson
Apr 2013
#58
That's what happens when you have a lack of regulations to benefit the wealthy
Cali_Democrat
Apr 2013
#50