1. Session 09 Segment 2, 3-22-09

Gov Rick perry one on one discusses decision to reject money as well as other issues we're dea...  More »

Gov Rick perry one on one discusses decision to reject money as well as other issues we're dealing with in the state we know why you rejectd - strings attached dont want to have to expand prgrams that we're going to have to later pay for letter from tx workforce comm says paying out $60 mil a wk for unemploymt benefits going to have 800 mil shortfall in fund by oct. perry: like we've alwasy done fix by raising rate that businesses pay & members raise rate to fulfill obligation that the fund has. they have to pay more anyway, isnt that a reason why you didnt want to accept $. two reason he says 1.total cost to businesses would be more with accepted $ 2. expansion of the progm. we wanted federal govt (its our $) to provide funds & send like they did in 2002.but not how this administration did it, theyre dead set on changing the way states do business. is fed govt taking away states right? says been doing for a while. he thinks 10th amend is going to come up very soon. Lead states to make decisions. what about job loss projections for rest of yr. 300,000 could be lost by end of yr... less than most other states says perry. we will best thing we can do,make decisions in this city during this legislative session over course the next 90 days...to keep taxes low, the regulatory climate fair - where ppl will come and businesses here will expand and create jobs. unemploymt program is in place and we will have the money. those who need it will be covered, but he thinks its better to focus on the creation of jobs for them...so they can invest money & so that tx continues on. reject money for political reason? he says he makes decisions based on principaled philisopical basis. looked at it and decided we dont want washington in here telling us how to run our business. clear overstepping of washington saying you take the $, here's what youll do with it & if you dont want to you dont get it. strings attached. biden in a fairly unveiled threat stating basically that if you dont accept this money, youre not getting in the future hearing border security. lots of deaths along border, a lot of drug trafficking. some saying its more dangerous along tex mex border than iraq sts right now. some reports have come out such as aclu saying $ is being misappropriated that was sent to state border security...also the state auditors office put into question some of the money that dps got for border security. what are we doing to secure border? some upset that money is border $ being spent in houston or dallas, perry says well absolutely it is, were battling drug cartels & unfort we having tpo spend over of state money 140 plus mill of tx taxpayers every 2 yrs doing a job that wash should be doing. great failure on wash's behalf to secure our border. we need more border patrol more aviation assets more $ flowing into local law enforcemt for OT so we can secure border. gov's race: wouldnt be running if he didnt think we would win. running for 3rd term. vs kay bailey hutch. if you look at where we are - tx. thinks were moving state forward as think most txs agree due to disciplined decsions. thats what campaign will be run on, his record. hes very proud of what hes done in tx. when asked up if she drops out & givesand you need to fill her senate seat? thinks its a waste of time. we need to focus on legisl. keep focus on heading tx in the right direction. making good decisions. good policy generally makes good politics. any further political ambitions other further than gov? says its best job in america.  « Less