It almost seems as if Governor Rick Perry enjoys screwing things up; illusionist? He's the only man I know that was able to make $161.5 million disappear from the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund (UITF). "The unemployment tax and the Enterprise Fund," is the title of a blog post that reveals this atrocity; written by Charles Kuffner of offthekuff.com. Kuffner gathers facts from Bill White's campaign website (www.billwhitefortexas.com/payrolldiversion) and quotes from several influential people in government to compose this reading material. The writer wants to reach out to all the residents-whether or not they may be from Texas-to educate them about just how bad of a decision they made by choosing this man for governor. Kuffner discusses how Bill White wants Perry to “audit the Enterprise Fund and disclose his plan for repaying billions in stimulus loans that were used to prop up the unemployment system.” The closest thing Perry got to being productive was bailing out a struggling company called Lexicon for $35 million. The former governor said that this was done to create 5,000 jobs in the near future, but the result was “Lexicon cut [-ting] its workforce in half.” He has denied any grants to be given to support the UITF in this recession where unemployment rates are rising, however he has accepted billions in federal stimulus loans. I would HIGHLY recommend this blog post for reading by any individual that cares about the job market, the economy, or government in general. I wasn’t a great supporter of Perry, but this article really opened my eyes to why I wasn’t the only one that felt this way about him.
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