Posted
10/08/2007 05:02:00 PM
by Douglas
Texas is number 3 in the list of
government pork.Texas has long viewed itself as a conservative bastion, but the Lone Star State ranked third in the nation between 2000 and last year in receipt of federal dollars, raking in aid and contracts worth more than $1.2 trillion.
The analysis provides an insight into where federal dollars are flowing and underscores what Southern Methodist University political science professor Cal Jillson calls the "pork-barrel libertarianism" philosophy of many Texans.
Guess what list Texas is #2 on? Population! So it seems that there's
still a net deficit of how much money Texans send to D.C. and how much Texas gets back.
Time to secede.