Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
As if we needed any more reasons to thank God for Texas, this very day has produced two new ones:
By the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, a statement:
The piling on by the political left, and their cohorts in the media, to use the massacre of little children to advance a pre-existing political agenda that would not have saved those children, disgusts me, personally. The second amendment to the Constitution is a basic right of free people and cannot be nor will it be abridged by the executive power of this or any other president.
By the attorney general of Texas, Greg Abbott, an invitation:
Keep your guns. Come to Texas.
Here in Texas, you will have the liberty and the opportunity to achieve your dreams. On top of that, we have no income tax, yet still manage to have a multi-billion dollar budget surplus.
We have right to work laws and a reasonable regulatory environment. Texas has created more than 275,000 jobs in the last year alone! And we’ll fight like hell to protect your rights.
You’ll also get to keep more of what you earn and use some of that extra money to buy more ammo.
On a day when Republicans in 49 states are sounding overwhelmingly apologetic and defensive, thank God for the two leading Republicans in the fiftieth.
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Apr '12
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
These leaders show what is possible and what a surprise, people move there!
Aug '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Now find a Republican leader to pitch the exact same message as the Texas attorney general, with the same brashness, and the same simplicity... but on the national level... and you have your 2016 Presidential nominee.
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Amen, BlueAnt, amen.
May '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
How does that song go? "My heart's in Texas, but my butt's in California..." ;)
Sep '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Like Pamela Ewing, I'm hoping that Rick Perry's Presidential primary run was a Vicodin induced bad dream.
Sep '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
With my wallet in Vegas.
Apr '11
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
I'm a native Texan, andI love it here.
A rather famous fellow once said, "You can all go to hell. I'm going to Texas."
Nov '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
I would go if you'd have me, Texas. Drop your residency requirements!
Aug '12
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We moved here from Indiana about seven years ago when I was hired by UT. Then I got tired of teaching 20-year-old nitwits who saw no irony in wearing Che Guevara T-shirts to protests against the death penalty and left the academic world. Since then I have started a consulting business that has thrived in the Texan business environment. These represent several of the smartest decisions I have ever made. Best part: In many of the down ballot races there are L's and R's but not a D in sight.
Dec '12
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Well, I was born in Michigan, but I moved to Texas 30 years ago my home is now in Texas.
To quote Judge Roy Bean, "For Texas and Miss Lillie!"
Mark
Jan '13
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
I don't think either Texans or Hawaiians would much like you calling Texas the fiftieth state. (I know what you were trying to say, but still.)
Aug '12
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
God bless Texas!
May '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Peter Robinson
Amen, BlueAnt, amen. · 1 hour ago
Let's keep in mind that it's the people of Texas that allow their politicians to be so great. It's a special environment that allows a state AG to deliver that "low taxes so you can ammo up" line without a speck of controversy.
Not sure that particular line would play so well nationally. In fact, it surely wouldn't. (Sorry, it's become my party-pooping role here to point this stuff out.)
May '11
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
If I didn't already live here, I'd be moving here after that throwing of the gauntlet.
May '10
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I am not sure what residency requirements Not JMR is talking about. Move to Texas, buy/rent a place, get a drivers license, and voila! You are a proud Texas resident.As far as the larger question of inviting Blue Staters to move to Texas goes, I think it is a double edged sword. There is a reason states like CA and NY have gone to hell, and it is because their residents have voted to make it that way (consciously or unconsciously). Why then would we want to invite them in to screw up Texas? Stay in your Blue State and enjoy which yee have sown....
Oct '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Most of us in Colorado still think like Texans. But California and New York have been so screwed up by the left that they come here now. Just like Seagulls, they fly in, crap all over the place, then fly back to their coastal nests.
We need more Texans here to clean up the mess and give us back Colorado.
Oct '10
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Had been told once by a freind born and raised in Texas that I was a Texan and just did not know it yet. Found out after time the man had made a good point.
The real issue for new arrivals to Texas is upon taking up residency is to enjoy the place, adopt a new lifestyle and leave the California or Blue State think Liberal stuff you fled behind. Ya'll be better off.
In an odd way most Europeans revere Texas and see it as the model for the country. Refer to the economy and films for a definition of that summation.
Edited on January 17, 2013 at 4:38amDec '12
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Well, I was born in Michigan, but I moved to Texas 30 years ago my home is now in Texas.
To quote Judge Roy Bean, "For Texas and Miss Lillie!"
Mark
Sep '12
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
I'm certain many of our Academics and Professional Opinion Writers wrinkled their noses at the statements from our Governor and AG.
Jan '11
Re: Keep Your Guns. Move to Texas
Scott Reusser
Let's keep in mind that it's the people of Texas that force their politicians to be so great. It's a special environment that allows a state AG to deliver that "low taxes so you can ammo up" line without a speck of controversy.
FTFY. :) Only in Texas would David Dewhurst be reviled as a softy moderate squish. It isn't that Texas politicians are some sort of awesome conservative leaders; it's that Texas voters reject the ones who are not (for the most part).
As Milton Friedman said:
Now, if we can somehow force integration of Austin, San Antonio, and Houston... maybe busing?