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31st January 2012

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Rick Perry's $169 Million Tech Fund has only Created 820 Jobs Since 2006 →

That’s $206,097 spent on each job since 2006 in a state that has been battling multi-BILLION dollar shortfalls in the last several years. 

And how about the $9+ Billion recommended cut in teachers’ jobs?  $169M pays the salary of 4,048 teachers in Texas.  Doesn’t sound like a lot, but in 2011 Austin, Houston, and Dallas combined for 1,442 teacher layoffs because of the budget crisis.  Perry’s failed tech fund could have paid their salaries for almost 3 years.

And yes, Perry, this is different than the 2003 shortfall. Much different.  And thanks for making taxpayers pay $800k for the security for your failed presidential campaign. 

Want to know where this nightmare is going?  Texas doesn’t have term limits for Governors, so no one knows when this will end.

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