business and eliminating cuts on education. not so on the last part on that. no cuts on education or social services? no. you have to back up on this. i came into office about 18 months ago, facing about a half a billion dollar shortfall. unfortunately at the state level you ve got to balance your budget. you can t just present money yet or anything else. so we had to go in at that point in time and really adjust our budgets and did. i m now looking at about a half a billion dollar surplus. i ve got 30 years of data where we had declining really we were growing slower than the entire region and we were the highest tax state in the region, weren t doing well. now we re saying we can cut taxes after we made those adjustments and moving forward. where did you make up the ground by cutting taxes? where did the new revenue come
worst fire season in history gets worse by the hour. this is the worst of the worst. southeast of austin, 30,000 acres consumed, hundreds of homes destroyed, zero containment. this fire started sunday, barely 48 hours ago, and already governor rick perry calls it as mean a fire as he has ever seen and he s seen a whole lot of wildfires this year. the texas forest service counts 294 consecutive days of wildfires somewhere in the state. you see the numbers here behind me. not coincidentally, it s been a year of historic drought. so far this year, more than 3 1/2 million acres have burned, about as much land as the entire state of connecticut. in the past 48 hours, more than 700 homes have been lost. many, many more are now in danger. we don t have room to list all the fires that are burning right now or even all of the biggest ones, actually, so here s just a sampling for you. there s the bastrop fire. in travis county, a fire has burned 6500 acres and 67 homes. you may also re
never raise taxes also had a reckoning this year. when his budget faced a 27 billion dollar shortfall. with taxes not an option, the state cut deeply into health care. so deeply into education, some 49,000 teachers are being laid off. do you see a texas miracle? no. i see a texas tragedy. while the nation as a whole struggles the dallas area economy keeps growing. adding jobs faster than any other area in the country. businesses like gm are growing. other companies are relocating attracted by lower taxes and what many consider a business-friendly atmosphere. sean: wow, june to august, a lot changed. on june 2nd sean: the second was the june 2nd one. yeah. they thought it was the greatest possible thing. it is interesting. in the last week
never raise taxes also had a reckoning this year. when his budget faced a 27 billion dollar shortfall. with taxes not an option, the state cut deeply into health care. so deeply into education, some 49,000 teachers are being laid off. do you see a texas miracle? no. i see a texas tragedy. while the nation as a whole struggles the dallas area economy keeps growing. adding jobs faster than any other area in the country. businesses like gm are growing. other companies are relocating attracted by lower taxes and what many consider a business-friendly atmosphere. sean: wow, june to august, a lot changed. on june 2nd sean: the second was the june 2nd one. yeah. they thought it was the greatest possible thing. it is interesting. in the last week
ohio budget has been passed closing the multibillion dollar shortfall they experienced. some liberals are not happy about some of the cuts in education. but he says we have it all figured out, we closed it up and he t everything he wanted on the checklist. and this is the man that was the house budget chair back in the 1990 s when the country had a balanced budget so this is something that a lot of people elected him to do. they wanted to solve the $8 billion budget crisis. as you mention he has been criticized because the cuts cut into education and nursing home care but the republicans say they needed to get it done because it was necessary to move forward. dave: quieter than what happened in wisconsin but a law allows guns in bars. is that a dangerous combination? you decide. but the fact of the matter is you can bring in your concealed weapons into places that seven alcohol, not just befores, but