Pimp of the week: Governor Rick Perry

What do you call someone who wears nice suits, has good hair, and likes to exploit other people for personal gain, deriving income from the earnings of those he exploits? This person likes to tell the people he uses for his own ends that he's taking real good care of them.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is the longest serving Governor in Texas history and believes that voters need to reelect him in November, 2010. He represents 25 million Texans and loves to tell us how he protects us, even as his actions favor his own best interest at our expense.

He presides over a tax system that is designed so that working Texans carry an unfair burden and a spending system that is so neglectful that 1 in every 4 Texans lives in poverty. Because of Rick Perry's policies, more Texas children live without health insurance than any other state and we offer our children a failed education system. Our environmental agency doesn't protect the environment, our education agency is removing historical people of color from text books, and our transportation agency is taking people's land by eminent domain like it's going out of style. Governor Perry rejected hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds that would have helped Texans who recently lost their jobs and also protected businesses from the tax increase that the Governor is giving them right now.

But the Governor outdid himself when he stood in front of Tea Party protesters and said he was giving them love back at the office. Hypocritical talk about the evils of corporate bailouts and the value of the free market, low taxes and individual liberty, when in reality his favorite donors and best friends are the beneficiaries of our tax dollars through huge corporate bailouts to his favorite corporations and hundreds of political appointments to agencies and commissions.

Governor Rick Perry, congratulations. We know you already earned a listing in Dikipedia but hope you will cherish this honor none the less - you are The Juicy Truth's official Pimp of the Week!

UPDATE: This just in. The Houston Chronicle reports that Texas taxpayers pay over $275,000/year for Governor Perry's rent, chefs and personal butlers. Almost $23k/month in personal living expenses and he also gets bling from donors like free trips to the Bahamas. No wonder you flash down the street with that ostentatious swagger, Guv - while 1 in 4 of your constituents live in poverty, you get to lay up in your pimped out crib eating fresh bonbons.

Originally published by The Juicy Truth