Texas is a right to work state and does not
 

...allow public sector unions...and does not allow collective bargaining for its public employees and yet it is facing a 15-27 billion dollar budget deficit. Doesn't this kind of undermine the Wisconsin's Governor's claim that it is the public sector unions and their right to collective bargaining as being the cause of Wisconsin's deficit problem?

haha zing

arizona talking about splitting up now? even tho it's a bit tongue in cheek

It won't ever happen. And besides, if people don't like it here they should move back to where they came from.

yea i don't think so either, but cutting off 7 billion to your economy is pretty crazy

sad part was reading about the guy making 60k between him and his wife, thinking he's middle class, and talking about the 'benefits' his family will get after it's gone. he totally believed it was something good for his family even when it didn't possess health insurance :(

heard it's 650k children being cut off.

Keep oil at $100 a barrel for a few months and Texas won't have any budget problems... :winkwink:

No not really. Each state is different with their different problems. For example I am sure that WI does not have the same illegal immigration problem as Texas.

The oil in the US is not really sold on the streets its put into reserve. I dont think they will profit that much and then anyway its the FEW Profiting from that and not the many.

Everyone seems to think we buy all of our oil from the Middle East. We get a lot of it from local sources, and then Canada and Mexico are our biggest importers. Go figure.

For every dollar the price of oil moves, its worth 10,000 jobs in Texas, that's why if you go back to the last time in 2008 when oil spiked, Texas had it much better then the rest of the country.

i remember growing up in texas, at one point the magic # was $80/barrel and the state is a happy place.

makes sense it's $100 now.