The following letter to the editor appeared in this morning's [Aug. 11, 2011] Los Angeles Times:
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latimes.com
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A warning from Texas; FDR and Obama; L.A.'s new football stadium
August 11, 2011
Texas, taxes and jobs
I am a visitor to California and a lifelong Texan. Imagine my surprise to encounter an anti-tax signature collector in San Diego arguing that California will lose jobs to Texas if taxes increase.
We Texans have already got all the minimum-wage, no-benefit jobs we can handle, along with lousy roads, a 19th century school system, a high poverty rate, hunger, lack of medical care and the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation. Our education system is declining, and much of the new jobs pay minimum wage. Texas is becoming third-world.
California has so much of what Texas lacks. Be happy to pay your taxes because you are getting so much for them. Tighten your belt and preserve the California you have while you can. Don't destroy California; you will regret it later.
Kathleen Bombach
El Paso
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Sounds like your're "doin' a heck of a job", Rickie...
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A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader's understanding of economics
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Another under-achieving, lack-a-daisical, indifferent, self-absorbed Texas governor for President? Hmm...the last one took a thriving economy, a balanced budget, and a surplus and left the country in near bankruptcy...imagine what "best and brightest" Perry could due with our economy in it's present state...
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