1. Texas does a lot of things right, and it's clearly a good place for businesses to locate. The cost of living is good, and the price of real estate is probably among the best you'll find in the country.

    Now, the property taxes are really, really high, but as other posters stated, those pay for roads and schools, both of which are in really good shape, especially in the suburbs.
  2. Gov. Perry's temporary digs costs Texas big bucks - Yahoo! News


    Must be a nice house!
  3. not as nice as the mansion
  4. And...

    No salaries included, and I hear the US has a bit of a budget issue also.

    LOL, I couldn't resist. It's all relative.
  5. texas has tons of illegal immigrants to provide cheap labor, so that helps.

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    Nice try, Martin. But if that were the case, then one would think California's coffers would be overflowing.
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  7. The education reform and revisionist history in Texas is pretty much a joke!
    That is all.
  8. A worse joke is all the smaller states having to follow suit just because there are dumbasses in Texas. The sooner that textbooks become digital, the better. It would save students a ton of cash up front. And it would make it simple for textbook publishers to remover the revisionist Texas bullchit from textbook available to the rest of the country.
  9. exactly, they tried to take Thomas Jefferson's role in the founding out and replace him with John Calvin.:nope:

    among other nonsense and whats worse is that the guy that was the chairman of the board kids are home schooled. :nope:
  10. Yeah they are trying to change the word "slavery" or "slave trade" to something like the Atlantic Trade Triangle or something like that because the words slave trade are just so negative. WTF??? Well, yeah it was negative. Disgusting.