Pinthouse Pizza
The New Texas Panhandling
RECEIVED Sat., June 14, 2008
Dear Editor,
I love Texas, but it seems wrong that Gov. Perry is asking for "donations" to rebuild the Governor's Mansion, which has been bought and paid for by taxpayers who've already "donated." I might be more sympathetic to Perry's privileged panhandling if the state didn't have the largest surplus it's ever had on record and we weren't paying for his $9,900/month rental home in the Barton Creek Country Club.
I'm sure the oil, insurance, and banking companies who've had the last eight years to torch Texas taxpayers' pockets and/or actually debt them out of their homes will gladly find a way to contribute. All in goodwill of course!
I do wonder, however, whether or not Perry's request for alms would fall within the proposed city ordinances for panhandling or, more importantly, whether the governor would consider staying a night at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless to experience what being truly homeless is like.
I love Texas, but it seems wrong that Gov. Perry is asking for "donations" to rebuild the Governor's Mansion, which has been bought and paid for by taxpayers who've already "donated." I might be more sympathetic to Perry's privileged panhandling if the state didn't have the largest surplus it's ever had on record and we weren't paying for his $9,900/month rental home in the Barton Creek Country Club.
I'm sure the oil, insurance, and banking companies who've had the last eight years to torch Texas taxpayers' pockets and/or actually debt them out of their homes will gladly find a way to contribute. All in goodwill of course!
I do wonder, however, whether or not Perry's request for alms would fall within the proposed city ordinances for panhandling or, more importantly, whether the governor would consider staying a night at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless to experience what being truly homeless is like.
Ryan Duran