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Governor Rick Perry has not said he is running for President in 2012, but I want him to.  He gets it.  He understands that the National Government is trying to exert its power over the states in a way that is unseen in this country before.  Governor Perry said he and Texans are “tired of people in Washington DC trying to tell us how to run Texas.”  “I believe the Federal Government has become oppressive.“  I myself am Fed up with the Federal Government.  Obama is bankrupting America.  Right now every tax paying American family owes $163,000 because of Obama’s wasteful budget. All those people who were mad at George W. Bush for wasteful spending (I was one of them) should be outraged at the spending going on in DC under the Obama administration.  It is taxation without representation.  I have no representation in Washington DC at this time and am being put on a Homeland Security watch list at that.  All Conservatives are.  We are seen as Right Wing Extremists.  I feel like I’m living in a communist country while the main stream media is simply a propaganda arm for the White House.  I was born and grew up in Texas.  It has no state income tax.  I live in a state that taxes us for everything run by Democrats.  We need more states and Governors that will stand up to the tyranny being exerted by Washington DC and the Obama administration.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters’ questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.

“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” Perry said. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

He said when Texas entered the union in 1845 it was with the understanding it could pull out. However, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas negotiated the power to divide into four additional states at some point if it wanted to but not the right to secede.

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