Texas whine: Why does Obama love Alabama more?

[Lasher]

Last year, Rick Perry was talking secession. Now, with fires raging, a handout doesn't look so bad.

With God apparently unmoved by Texas' official declaration of three days of prayer for rain, Gov. Rick Perry has turned his attention to another awesome potentate -- President Obama.

Specifically, Perry wants Obama to declare a federal state of emergency, which would allow Texas to recoup some 75 percent of the funds it is spending to combat devastating wildfires. But Perry is griping that despite having sent in his application on April 25, Obama still hasn't acted. Meanwhile, tornado-racked Alabama was lavished with immediate state-of-emergency love.

"You have to ask, 'Why are you taking care of Alabama and other states?' I know our letter didn't get lost in the mail," Perry, a Republican and frequent critic of the federal government, said after addressing a Texas emergency management conference.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already authorized 20 emergency declarations for individual fires in Texas. But the obvious implication of the "you have to ask" phrasing is that Obama is delaying a statewide declaration as some kind of punishment for Texas, possibly in retaliation for its governor's well-publicized antipathy to the current administration.

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/04/29/rick_perry_askes_for_federal_handout/

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[kswheels]

1. How many people did the fires kill, Ricky? N/T

:nopity:

[aquart]

2. Tell you what, Gov.

Put together a conference call with your congressional delegation. Tell them to end the Bush tax dodges NOW because their state is dry tinder and needs federal help.

OR, you can go hat in hand mansion to mansion and ask your oil buddies to cough up a couple of bucks.

The welfare state of Texas wants some more. THERE IS NO MORE.

[Lasher]

3. Texas is one of nine states with no income tax.

Rick should pull himself up by his own bootstraps with an income tax like most other states have. But he's not willing to do that so he doesn't really need the money.

[Raine]

4. Perry was leading a movement to secede from the US

so now he wants money from the feds, thought he hated the government. :shrug:

[Lasher]

5. He should apply for US foreign aid.

But House Republicans say we don't have any money for foreign aid, so Rick's SOL.

[backscatter712]

6. Praying for rain doesn't seem to be helping? Imagine that. n/t