While many states are struggling during this difficult depression, some states are their own worst enemies.

One of these is the Lone Star state.

Texas is certainly a state in a pitiful, sad state.

It has a right wing, whackjob governor, Rick Perry, who embroiled himself in controversy by implying possible Texas secession from the US.

Christened by the late journalist, Molly Ivins, as "Goodhair," Perry recently considered appointing to head the state board of education a wing nut with no education qualifications, a creationist who claimed public schools were tools of perversion and last year stated that then Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was plotting with terrorists to attack the U.S.

In addition according to McClatchy Newspapers: "Up to 15,000 jobless Texans are expected to exhaust their unemployment benefits by the end of July and could be without benefits for more than a month and possibly longer as state officials struggle to implement a 13-week extension.

"In another somber indication of the recession’s effect on Texas, the state’s unemployment trust fund will plummet to zero next week.

"The state’s climbing jobless rate sparked a debate in the recent legislative session over Gov. Rick Perry’s decision to reject $555 million in unemployment stimulus money, which he said would impose a long-term tax burden on Texas employers."

And putting icing on this disgraceful Lone Star cake is the Existentialist Cowboy: "Texas recently beat Mississippi in a race to dead last in high school graduations. At the same time, Texas may 'boast' that it is 'number one' in executions, number 'one' in the number of children living in poverty, number one the number of murders per one thousand persons, number one in various forms of industrial pollution! Number one in the race to bottom."

Oh, it also leads the nation in illiteracy. 

Such are the terrible consequences when right wing, GOP conservatives are elected to lead.....idiocy reigns and the people suffer.