Another Man of Principle

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas stands with Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina in rejecting some of the stimulus funds. Perry, like Sanford, does not like funds for the unemployed because it will require changes in state law that, once accepted, will be well nigh impossible to change.

As with South Carolina, Texas does have a problem with unemployment in that its laws are such that only twenty percent of the unemployed receive benefits. Perry's principles are more important than providing benefits to the other 80%.