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Maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, Abbott, or whatever other shitty saying you Republicans like to use. Fuck off.
In April, Abbott began chartering busses to drop migrants off in other parts of the country, like Washington, DC, and Chicago, without giving those cities any notice — a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.
Texas had spent $12 million on the efforts as of August, the Texas Tribune reported at the time. By November, the amount spent busing migrants out of state had risen to $20 million, according to local outlet WFAA. >


a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.

If you looked at the numbers, the amount paid and how many asylum seekers they trafficked, they could have sent these folks to the Blue States on airplanes in business class. 
If you pried the lid off of this scam, I bet you discover a bus company owner who's a close personal friend to Abbott. >

I wonder if it's to do with air travel being so heavily regulated federally. Like if using airlines would open them up to federal crimes where the buses wouldn't. >

This isn’t really the point being made though :)
It’s the fact that the amount of money ‘spent’ minus the amount of money it actually functionally took them to transport them, equals a ton of money that went easily unaccounted for and likely into the personal pockets of whom ever kingpin was involved in the deal with Abbot.   It’s embezzlement. >

Yeah. They could have just given these poor people homes and jobs. But nope..... >

Cruelty and embezzlement in one convenient package. >

Wouldn't have sent the "right message" to their constituents or benefactors, apparently.
Fucking sad.... fucking embarrassing >

They are incompetent and throwing more money under their control just means that his buddies will get richer and still blame Biden >

He said that Biden should have visited ASAP in his presidency instead of two years later because of the "damage he's done". Apparently whatever the heck the Trump administration had been doing up until Biden's inauguration held no bearing on the border situation. >

Yeah like it was great under trump, but suddenly on day 1 of Biden's presidency it was fucked. How does that work? >

I haven’t heard a single one of them screaming about a migrant caravan the last 2 years >

That's because they all upgraded to migrant Grand Caravans. They're kind of like the ones that used to be built in the USA, but now we import them from Mexico. >

soon they will be upgrading them to Astro Wagons. >

What about the $1B he wasted to help the Trump administration fundamentally paint border fence?  What a loser >

Whose the real loser? The grifter or the people voting for them? >

It's losers all the way down. >

Always has been.. >

Texas is the worst state now. What’s fucked up is that the federal government allows shit politicians to drive states into the ground and everyone else hand waved it off as voters voted for it. What a shit show in the USA >

It’s so bad and it makes me so sad. My 75 yr old mom just told me she couldn’t take it anymore and she’s gonna move. Her grandparents built the town we live in. It’s heartbreaking. >

My husband and I are mid 60’s. After our whole lives in Texas, we left a year and a half ago. One kid and their family left too, the other is working on it. The rest of our extended family is happy to stay. I’ll always be a Texan but just can’t take Texas anymore. I tell people who ask, it didn’t use to be like this. It didn’t. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating. 
We maintained our Texas residency while living out of state, traveling back and forth to visit, doctor appointments, and so on, but mainly so we could vote this past election cycle. The turnout among democrats and the youth was poor, and yes, suppression is a huge problem. But apathy is worse, to me. Can’t even put up a fight? That was it, the last straw. We’re officially residents of New Mexico now. We love it here but miss a lot of things, mostly just the familiarity of home. 
I hope your mom finds her place. Tell her a kindred stranger is thinking about her. >

This is the sweetness of Texas I miss. I always say “you never stop being from Texas” 💜 but neither of us can live with this kind of hostility.
    New Mexico is gorgeous!! I wish you many beautiful sunsets. >

Fellow former Texan and current New Mexican checking in! 
People kept telling me it’s the same everywhere. It’s not. Being in NM is a delight compared to Texas (or Arizona). >

You’re giving me a lot of hope for my future. Thanks for sharing. It’s a tough decision to make, but it’s nice to hear I’m not alone. >

Biden just needs to say it would be fiscally irresponsible to give Abbott more money after wasting so much shipping migrants to other states "for the lolz". Repubs love when you bring up fiscal responsibility, remember? >

He needs to point out that Abbott literally said in his debate with Beto he had billions of excess money sitting ready to be used to help Texans. I heard so many Republicans say they were going to vote for him specifically because "he's the one who saved all that money to use for Texas." 
But here he is crying about not having any money 🙄 >

If he has a bunch of money saved up, it's because he hasn't been spending it to help Texas. He's been hoarding it. The stupidity of the people who voted for him astounds and infuriates me. >

For real. He's taxing them and not returning it to the people in any way as taxes are meant to be. They should be furious. >

I sure as hell am, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one. >

Maybe they should use some of the State of Texas’ $8.7B rainy day fund? Maybe the money they’re begging for should go to fixing the grid, like they were supposed to do ten years ago? Maybe they should spend their ESF on addressing Texas’ Maternal Mortality Rate, which happens to be the worst in the fucking country. 
Fuck Texas. >

The state’s budget surplus is unprecedented, with estimates showing it to be at least $27 billion, and possibly as high as $35 billion.
Idk why Texas needs more federal money. Biden should withhold funds until Texas expands Medicaid which is paid by the federal government. >

I'd rather see that money go back into public shools and help fix Texas education. I know the first thing we can do. Get rid of charter schools. Secondly, get rid of no child left behind. Third thing we can do is help parents with special needs children and behavior issue kids. >

TX Rs: "Best we can do is cut funding to public schools, spend more on charter school vouchers, make NCLB more stringent, and reprimand parents to raise their special needs kids better by threatening their safety nets if they don't without any extra information or assistance from us." >

That sounds way fucking accurate. They are trying to destroy public schools before everyone realizes it. Charter schools don't even offer a better enviroment for learning. They can also kick out kids for behavioral problems and other fucked up shit they choose to do. They also cost you more as a parent and there is no public transit and most don't even have elective sports. >

You would think no sports in high school would be a non starter for Texans >

You'd be surprised how many people here don't give a shit about sports. Yes football might be king but even then it is starting to have a down turn. Honestly unless you live in small town or a privileged community the stands are pretty empty. >

One of the many reasons my wife and I are actively looking for a place outside this festering shithole.
Reminder that Abbott, our shock-jock-turned-lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, and criminally indicted attorney general Ken Paxton all won re-election by double digits. >

2022 gave truth to the lie that Texas is "going purple!" like people have been parroting since 2016. The major cities may have some well-educated people who can see beyond a 12-month time horizon, but the state as a whole is a dumpster fire. It's not going to get better. >

It's totally gerrymandered lol. The more purple it gets the more they move the lines. >

Gerrymandering didn't cause the parents with dead children in Uvalde to come out and vote for their kids to die more. They made that decision on their own. For the people in their right minds, get them out. Let the state sink. >

If he’s got money for political stunts he doesn’t need more federal money. He can ask his own legislature to increase taxes if he misspent and has run out of money. >

Our legislature only meets every other year. They meet this year, so he couldn't have asked for the last year. 
(I have to point this out because of how fucking stupid it is these jackasses only work every other year.) >

I agree that the Texas Legislature is a bit of a joke, but I feel the need to point out that the governor, if he really needed the money, could call the legislature into special session at any time to ask for a tax increase. >

You mean like...work? clicks mouth Yea that ain’t happening bud. >

He wants a government handout? Thats socialism! >

So he went from owning the libs to begging the libs... >

Standard practice for Rs.  They'll harshly criticize any federal government spending, oppose raising the debt ceiling every year, threaten government shutdowns, call anything dems want to send on "wasteful" and then quietly turn around with their hand out after they finish.  There's a reason why the debt still goes up when Rs are in charge. >

Texas needs more money while having no income tax.  Time to tax those wealthy new Texans like Elon musk and joe rogan.
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i get it, ya'll have other taxes.  i've got income tax, property tax and sales tax.  all i'm saying is these GOP clowns are more than happy to give tax breaks to the rich and get handouts from the feds.  Texas should figure out their own "Elon Musk" tax. >

He spent plenty of our money on his bs political stunts. We may not have a state income tax, but we have sales tax that gives them plenty of money to spend on things we absolutely don't want them to spend it on. So much fun living somewhere where voters vote against their own wants/needs /s. >

It seems crazy that he has spent millions on that. Seems like an audit should be in order >

What, you gonna get the indicted-since-2015- attorney general to do it?
He's in on it. We're being held hostage. It's hard to get your vote counted in texas. It's a criminal fucking enterprise that we can't get out from under. >

Just saw the TX senate is going to ban reporters from the floor, so yeah its going good over there. >

Hey, I for one agree with Greg, the numbers aren’t adding up. 
3~4 million tax returns collected from illegal immigrants using ITIN with their employment information per year
Up to 25 arrests per year for employing legal immigrants 
Maybe we could get more funding if we looked at where these millions of illegals are employed and arrest their employers, it’s not like they voluntarily tell us and give us money too… oh wait. >

That would hurt his donors, though. That's why they insist on going after those seeking a better life and not the ones who employ them. If they forced the employers to stop hiring illegals by actually enforcing the laws around that (with attention, fines, or arrests) it would mean they'd have to pay more in labor costs. When that happens, the cost of everything from produce to handbags would skyrocket. 
Meanwhile, Scabbot knows that for every undocumented working immigrant arrested, there are 20 more waiting to take that job, so it keeps prices low and the rabble from rioting because they're paying $30/lb for potatoes and apples. 
There's also another added benefit. Republicans love that, because these people are undocumented, the employers can keep them in shitty and unsafe working conditions with low pay and no benefits. That plays right into their hardon for no worker's rights/safety regulations, and where the employer controls the worker's life. This fact is what really keeps him at half mast at all times. >

Bussing people all over the country isn’t cheap. Neither is not maintaining your grid so it requires costly repairs when it fails. 
You’re on your own Mr Lone Star. >

Busing is quite cheap. Busing with your friend's bus company isn't. They have spent $2000 per person. Not justifying busing the practice, but Greyhound gets you there for $150 then add in $150 for food.
The point is creulty with a grift on the side. >

“Hey Kamala, can you ask Joe for more money so I can traffic people to your front yard again? Pretty please?” >

I wish Biden would pat him on the head and tell him he already spent his allowance and should learn better fiscal responsibility >

Not one penny more.  Not one.  You've proven that you are a despicable human being.  One that cares nothing for those who are suffering.  You don't deserve to be Governor of Texas.  You don't deserve to be a resident of Texas.  You don't deserve to be a citizen of this country. >

And where will that money actually go? Another $20 million to bus legal migrants/asylum seekers in the dead of winter into a blue state with no prior warning? Or $19,998,000 into his friends’ pockets while bussing the migrants there with what’s left? 
Don’t give them anything. If they wanted to actually do something and help, they would have, but they don’t. The money is only a grift with no oversight. >

In the span of just 10 days, that poser wasted $9 billion on an 'immigration' stunt — $4B from Texas and $5B from the rest of the country — that got literally no results.  He didn't intercept one single gram of fentanyl or any other drug.

The Week: Abbott's border policy cost the U.S. almost $9 billion in just 10 days

There is nobody more irresponsible with other people's money than republicans.  The party's claim on "fiscal responsibility" is just a marketing slogan that the press amplifies but never interrogates. >

Fuck you, Abbott. >

Texas wants Biden to say no so they can use it as a talking point on Fox News. Biden should ask them to show what theyve done with the likely billions theyve already been sent.
Texas is defrauding the US government with these human trafficing stunts. Personally, I think the federal government should be asking for a refund. >

He sent a few buses to San Francisco on Christmas Eve. No warning, just left them in the cold to let someone else to help then. 
Greg Abbott can get a big fat load of nothing. >

How about you legalize cannabis and use the tax dollars to fund whatever immigration delusion you’re touting? Fucking dunce. >

What a rolling pile of shit >


What a rolling pile of shit

Texas, proudly earning it's one star year after year. 
Texas should just make it illegal to hire undocumented people and enforce it like an abortion ban, problem solved. 
Oh wait, Texans hate Mexicans but love exploiting their labor, I forgot. >


Texas should just make it illegal to hire undocumented people and enforce it like an abortion ban, problem solved.

This is the answer! >

They need to call it domestic outsourcing.
Also, I wonder how all these people got the idea that crossing the border without a visa is legal? >

Sorry bud, Kevin McCarthy's House of Representatives has decided to cut government spending and governments ability to obtain revenue.  
Maybe Abbot should vote for Democrats who understand a government needs to be funded to operate.