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I would love to think the Israel trip was for a good reason, but watch this video then tell me if you think Texans are getting jobs from this tell me where the Israel based company is hiring in Texas, I have plenty of family that need work.

The Link is HERE. It is a good report using what “Freedom of Information Act” they could. Transparency is good for Texans, it allows us to see what is really costing us in real money.

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So as Terri Hall said Prop #11 does not keep people like Perry from taking land for whatever use they want for it. This video is revealing because at the end he speaks of water in San Antonio. The water he may be referring to is our private water in my county. On land that the state doesn’t own, but several private land owners have spent a lot of money developing into perfect grazing and farm land. San Antonio is the one growing, let them figure it out. Our tax base will not be helped if we are robbed of potential profit in a county where the unemployment rate is over 10%. That is not protecting Texans, that is robbing Texans.

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This caught my eye. As I have said before I will never know if Willingham was guilty or not. Perry has made sure that any questions will not be answered for a long time if never. Justice is supposed to blind and impartial.

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This post is because a friend of mine asked, more like begged me to post it. They don’t have a blog but have decided from time to time that they want me to vent because they cannot.

With that being said, what I am about to post is the absolute truth. I wish for the sake of our government it does not exist. I wish for those paying tax this was a misunderstanding, but it is not. So let me say that I have gotten information from multiple sources, the amount of fraud is probably sky high. It has to be if little old me knows about it, it has been scuttlebutt for a while.

In Texas you get what they call the LoneStar Card for food stamps. Each month at the first of the month Texas loads it up. The amount of money on these cards is staggering. I had heard $700, then I heard $900, the last amount I heard is $1500. Now remember this is for food alone, this is not for utilities or housing. They get another amount for welfare to include housing and utilities. This is a monthly food budget alone.

The amounts are far more than I ever spent. When I did some more digging I found out a few interesting items. First off, Food Stamp Fraud is rampant and here is why. If they don’t use the full amounts of the card the amount is dropped. And no one wants less money when it is free. Now this is the part I have heard about for months, I had hoped it was only in bigger urban cities. But it is our little rural area as well, the fraud is happening all the time. The way it works is let’s call her Althea. Althea has  $900 on her card, this month she has tried to spend as much as she needed but she has a balance of $500 left over. Althea knows what I have found out, if she doesn’t use it Texas will lower the amount. Next month Althea is going to throw a BBQ for her family and friends, so she will use the money next month.  Althea knows also what I know, people that work and pay taxes have far less money for food. Althea makes a decision to sell her $500 Lone Star Card, now she doesn’t have to sell it for $500. Althea can let it go for $200 and shop somewhere else like for clothes. Althea sells the card, gets the cash, and gives the pin number to the person buying the card.

Problem is Althea has been doing it for a long time, and will continue to do it. See she doesn’t have the need to earn money, or pay for groceries. There is nothing that makes her think twice about it, it is “her LoneStar card”, and it is free.

The LoneStar card is supposed to have anti theft devices on it, but whatever they are they don’t work.

When something is free for the taking, abuse will happen. If you do nothing it will get worse. The lack of fraud prosecution is revealing. I have not read or heard about huge cases of food stamp fraud being stopped.

Texan tax payers need to be aware of this, they need to speak out because if we don’t it will not go away. We are the ones buying the groceries for people unwilling to work, and frauding the state. This is one of the main reasons I would never want National Healthcare, I know what happens when the government tries to fix something. It gets worse, and fraud sky rockets.

Those of us who pay our grocery bills are being used and abused by the system and the food stamp users.

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When I first read about this I was sure my brain was not reading it correctly. Texas Doctors have been arrested and convicted of sexual misconduct but still practice in Texas.

Matter of fact we are so lax on those practicing medicine with convictions many doctors who cannot practice in other states are coming here. Why you ask?

Easy the Texas Medical Board does not revoke their licenses. Nationwide Doctors have 10% of the licenses taken away, but in Texas it is only 5%.

It is a travesty, it is a tragic reality of a Governor that is more excited about winning an election that actually governing the State he has been a Governor of.

The legislature has tried since 1990 to get a handle on this Board, without an ability to do so. As with many situations, the board is Governor Appointed. It has a small budget according to those on it, and they are “not in business to revoke licenses”.

Perry has replaced four of the Forensic Board, but this board is fit as a fiddle to him as well as TxDOT. Perry’s lack of leadership is hurting Texans, literally. Why would any parent want to take their kid to a pediatrician that has been convicted of trading sex for prescriptions?

Look I am not perfect, I am no brain scientist but I do think Democrat or Republican we want Doctors convicted of Sexual Misconduct to be unable to practice in Texas. For me it is a grievous misuse of power and authority. If Perry can’t clean it up then get somebody in who will try to do something about it.

The details of the story begin in 2002 that I know of, but they continue today. They will get worse because as we all know unless the truth is told, Perry is not going to fix it or even care to discuss it.

Dallas Morning News has detailed report HERE.

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Yes I know this is a conservative Texas politics blog. But there are many households and businesses in Texas that have made budget cuts, many deep cuts. The fact that Dell signed a deal with Perot before he laid off 905 in North Carolina is not lost on me.

I live in one of “those counties”. When a person came to speak out how great and prosperous the state of Texas was, we noticed this dark spot in the middle of the state. I have looked at enough Texas sized maps to recognize if that is not our county it is the county next to us. Another grassroots local next to me said, you know that looks like our county, I agreed. Sure enough our county is economically depressed, not deeply but if you look around we are hurting. The local big employer laid off hundreds, many businesses are not hiring. Many could and will lay off more people this month that live in our county.

I will admit those are the working people, our population is filled with able bodied people with no job, and no intention of getting one while continuing to stay on food stamps and welfare. I should note here these people are of all races, don’t be thinking I am a calling out one race.

The reality of what we as a county endure is not easy, it will not be fixed by running from truths, hard truths. In the past we had an employer that would become a powerhouse a few years later, and that began the decline of our economic losses. Until the county and the state of Texas start to understand budget cuts, we cannot and will not recover.

Until we say hey those people over there gaining hundreds of dollars of food stamps, those people over there we are paying to have more kids, hey my almost ninety year old Father in law still earning money through farming and paying through the nose for property taxes and income taxes is a dying breed, we have not faced the great big elephant in the room.

Stop spending money, stop wasting money, start looking at ways to cut expenses, and ways to save money for the county and the state. We don’t have a choice, the state and county will run out of money, the writing is on the wall. Don’t blame DC if you are wasting money in the state or county, I don’t want to hear it. It isn’t DC’s fault Texas is wasting money, millions on TTC. That is one example there are hundreds I could detail. We have to got to look past ” DC is bad”, and do something.

Texas and local counties had better get in line or we will end up like Nolanville. That is not a threat it is a reality, every budget has a bottom line.

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At first glance $60 million is the number TxDOT spent on TTC. Texas tax dollars spent from day one were being protested. But the number is deceptive, $60 Million was only the part of the TTC that was killed. $131 Million is what TxDOT has spent thus far, and remember none of that money has actually built a road. None has expanded I35 or maintained the existing roads.

Until Perry is out of office, TxDOT is cleaned from Top to near bottom nobody should rest assured that TTC will not grow an ugly dragon out of it. TxDOT is filled with inept people at the top, I happen to know many employed by TxDOT on a low level. They do their job, and leave the politics behind. But the Commissioners are beyond hope, they need to be fired. Perry needs to be fired.

Nope the announcement has not calmed my fears about the need to “Make Texas History” by Perry. Rick Perry has had years and millions to back off, but he hasn’t. Even when the State House and Senate voted to kill TTC, Perry kept funding it.

Hank Gilbert had the quote of the day for me on TTC.

“Vampires die quicker than Rick Perry’s transportation policy,” he said.

TTC has been like a D list actor finally scoring a death scene, every which way, every moment.

Remember that TxDot has not killed all of TTC, only the big portion of it on I35. I69 will be built by Cintra Zachry.

Details of the money are found HERE.

This is one of the reasons I am supporting Kay Bailey Hutchison for Governor.

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This post I never hoped to post. It was a post I had hoping Perry would allow something to be looked out, fixed and allow the horrific truths to come out or not.

If only that had happened, if only Perry had done what he has done in countless of other situations, reappoint the existing people and let it go. God knows Perry has done it many times with people that should be fired.

What am I talking about? A man was executed by the state of Texas, but forensic evidence says it may or may not have been a mistake. The New York Times has covered it, every major paper has covered it. Until Perry made the replacement of the people that had started the investigation and found some problems in it, I had hoped one time Perry would ignore the “heavy handed politics” and let something work through the system.

I don’t know the specifics, or let me say I am not going to look into them. Frankly right now all I can do is bring it up and pray. I don’t know enough to rattle off anything other than look at this.

HERE.

Here is the Wall Street Journal article Look HERE.

I do feel like Bradley was put between a rock and hard place, I don’t know him at all but I would hope he would look into this. But Bradley took the appointment knowing the pressure of this execution.

That and the fact many very conservative people have valid reasons for not supporting Perry. I consider myself very hard on crime, but I also strongly believe in the appeal system when it works.

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I live in a school district that the fairly new superintendent did a great thing. He opened up the checkbook. They post the registry online for every school tax payer to see. What I know since I started this blog is it is not what you know that costs millions of dollars of tax payer money, it is what you don’t know. Imagine if you could read every bill, look at every local,state and national government checkbook. You could follow the money all so easily, we would not need groups that file, request and calculate the money trail.

We would all know what the “govt” knows. It is a big issue with me, as is a fair tax or flat tax. I want to know where the moula is, what are spending so much money on. What dept is overspending our tax dollars?

In other words, Show me The MONEY.

I am posting this video as a follow up of The Sunset Commission. As Hubby says, Toll roads allow TxDot to hide money, otherwise they would not want them. The one thing I know is TxDot does not want to show me the money. Matter of fact I think they didn’t want to show the Sunset Commission the money either.

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The Texas Sunset Commission job is to go through Texas government waste Dept by Dept. There is not enough hours in the day for them to weed out what is wrong and over crossing of money, and time and laws.

Here is what they did last secession. Look HERE.

Before you slam them for not doing enough, remember they are doing something. They are dealing with groups that may or may not tell the truth. I will never forget being at a school board meeting when I heard a complete presentation that was a lie, I was told the board has to listen to what is presented. The Sunset Commission is allowed to dig deeper but it all depends on what the Department is willing to say, show or illuminate.

TXDot has not been a truthful group, and I say that because I have watched video that even the board says so.

So you know there are people out there looking out for us. Lois Kolkhorst is one of my favorites, she knows first hand what Tx Dot is willing to do. Linda Harper-Brown is riveting and articulate.

There are two videos but I promise, once you watch one you want to watch the other one. Part one starts the process of how they will toll an existing road.

Part two goes into the lying, total disregard for the legislature trying to keep TXDot for the people of Texas.

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