Texas' government might go BOOM! Why do you ask? Well, the state has a $25 billion hole in its plot of its $1.2 trillion budget called a "deficit". It's big enough to drive a mad truck, train, and plain through it. However, pro-business pundits bills Texas a shining example of a "lean, mean, business-friendly" state, but what can they do if their majority healthcare and educational budget state going to do if they can't fill it?
In the Dallas Morning News back in October, newly re-elected Texas governor Rick Perry said on the campaign trail that he would be for doing away with Medicaid and Medicare-funded sCHIP (state Childrens' Insurance Program) altogether. Now he is really trying to piss off the Babyboomers whom are the core of his voting base because if they can't get their health care then his ass will be burnt like toast.
Well, that's the $64,000 question that the GOP super-majority-led Texas State Legislature will have to figure out in the next few months...
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