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[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

States DO NOT rely on Federal Funds.

You better tell your governor...

Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Even budget deficits are bigger in Texas

Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money...

[Obama 2012 1,714]

You better tell your governor...

and you better pay attention to what i was saying before.

Had that money stayed in Texas to begin with....

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

and you better pay attention to what i was saying before.

Had that money stayed in Texas to begin with....

Sure and if my dog wouldn't have taken a dump, he would've fetched that duck.

Edited July 16, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

States DO NOT rely on Federal Funds.

There is no such thing as "Federal Funds."

There is money taken from you and me and given to another state. Those are the PEOPLE's funds. If THE PEOPLE kept their funds, a long with the states, we'd be a lot better off.... except for losers like California who never met a spending bill they didn't like.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

except for losers like California who never met a spending bill they didn't like.

Californians have consistently paid more to the feds than they have received back. They've been supporting the leeches in Texas.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Californians have consistently paid more to the feds than they have received back. They've been supporting the leeches in Texas.

Actually true. If California broke even, meaning the State received the same Federal Funding that it's citizens paid in income taxes alone, California would be in surplus, and imagine what would happen to all those pot holes if we got all our Federal Fuel taxes back in highway funds.