Rick Perry ‘proudly’ refuses health care to 1.2 million low-income Texans

[Indy Texas]

A family of three can only make $188 per month or less to qualify for Medicaid in Texas?  Holy crap.

This is why I have soured on the notion that every program would be better off just getting block-granted to state government. Because to Rick Perry and other public officials like him, running programs "more efficiently" essentially means not running them at all and then shifting the funds to pay for other things (as was the case with the education money we received from the feds last year).

Meanwhile, we'll be spending more money unnecessarily since Rick and other members of the Hamas wing of the Texas Republican Party can't abide any public health funds going to Planned Parenthood and we can't get federal funding for women's health as a result.

[Indy Texas]

This travesty that some claim to be happening has just been voted by a bunch of media and academia lib's that Texas is the # 1 state. CNBC

Number one in the availability low-paying service and retail jobs, perhaps. That, however, is useless should you posses even a molecule of self respect. We are probably number one for most regressive tax system...which naturally appeals to businesses.

I love Texas, but to be honest - it's a socioeconomic wasteland. The wealthy come to Texas to take advantage of its regressive economic culture. The working people only stay because they love their state on a quasi patriotic level.

So long as we empower people like Rick Perry to thumb his nose at federal legislation that benefits the poor, Texas will never change.

Let's be fair, Perdie. Someone who's poor and fat in Texas is going to be poor and fat anywhere else too. Poor people everywhere are less mobile than rich people because they tend to work in service jobs that aren't portable and that are basically the same everywhere. If they weren't working at Wal-Mart here, they'd be working at Wal-Mart in some other state that isn't Vermont, so why move at all? They also don't have the luxury of abandoning their social capital by moving away from friends and family and leaving themselves with no social/financial safety net.