Author Topic: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating  (Read 1856 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline ABX

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 900
  • Words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« on: September 28, 2013, 03:18:51 am »
Quote
Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement in response to Standard & Poor's upgrading Texas' credit rating:

"S&P's decision to raise Texas' credit rating to AAA is no accident, but further proof that the Texas model of conservative fiscal discipline is a key element of our strong economy, and a stark contrast to the out-of-control spending and rising debt ceilings of Washington, D.C. In Texas, we adhere to the powerful combination of keeping taxes low and government spending in check, ensuring Texas remains the best place in the country to live, work, raise a family and build a business."

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/18916/


Offline Atomic Cow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18,221
  • Gender: Male
  • High Yield Minion
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2013, 03:24:20 am »
Clearly another reason why we must elect Abortion Barbie.  We just cannot have Texas doing do well.

I best this will not get any coverage whatsoever in the Texas media.
"...And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange, even to the men who used them."  H. G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections." -Lord Acton

Offline Rapunzel

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 71,613
  • Gender: Female
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2013, 03:52:10 am »
You know the good as well as the sad thing is the GOP governors are all doing a good job and Obama is taking the credit.
�The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves.� G Washington July 2, 1776

Offline Atomic Cow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18,221
  • Gender: Male
  • High Yield Minion
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2013, 04:04:54 am »
You know the good as well as the sad thing is the GOP governors are all doing a good job and Obama is taking the credit.

Thankfully most people in those states know the truth save perhaps Ohio and Michigan.
"...And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange, even to the men who used them."  H. G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections." -Lord Acton

Oceander

  • Guest
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2013, 11:31:19 pm »
Texas now has a better credit rating than the US itself does.  Perhaps Texas will become the lender of last resort to the federal government, now that it can borrow from foreigners more cheaply than the federal government can.

Offline SouthTexas

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,665
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2013, 04:05:13 pm »
Texas now has a better credit rating than the US itself does.  Perhaps Texas will become the lender of last resort to the federal government, now that it can borrow from foreigners more cheaply than the federal government can.

We will require some type of collateral...

Offline ABX

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 900
  • Words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2013, 06:44:02 pm »
We will require some type of collateral...

Maybe they can offer is Oklahoma and Louisiana as collateral?  Oklahoma has always been like a little brother to Texas and we like Cajuns.

Oceander

  • Guest
Re: S&P Raises Texas to Highest AAA Credit Rating
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2013, 03:49:14 am »
We will require some type of collateral...

Well, there is the little matter - which some still consider unsettled - of the Republic of Texas; perhaps the rest of the United States can hock itself and become constituent states in a revived Republic of Texas - the United States of Texas (UST)?