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I see. So what you are saying is vote for Perry if you don't care about health, education, poverty, the environment, public spending per citizen, number of high school graduates, poverty and hunger among children.
He may get the asshat vote.
Like we said...when you're overrun with illegals, those stats get totally skewed.
That's a cool poster of Perry- I didn't know he was a member of the "Village People"!
Texas ranks near the bottom in every "quality of life" catagory: health, education, poverty, the environment, public spending per citizen, number of high school graduates, poverty and hunger among children. You name it.
I don't care how many temporary minimum wage jobs the current boom is creating. It's not sustainable. All those folks moving there for jobs are used to living in a civilized society. As soon as it's economically feasable, they'll move out again. Boom-bust, boom-bust. Texas' combination of rapid growth and lackadasical government are going to lead to HUGE problems in the next ten years. At the rate you're going, you are going to wind up a third-world state- skyscrapers and mud huts.
You could use a few more "libruls" to help you get a handle on this stuff, rather than chase them all away!
That's a pretty lousy record for Perry to run on- "Vote for me and I'll do for the US what I did to Texas". Ummmm, no thanks!
Obviously, you don't spend much time in the Dallas/Houston/Austin/San Antonio forums populated with inquiries from well paid executives or their spouses planning a transfer to Texas. Must be that quality of life and mud-huts, eh?
"The notion that Texas' recent performance is due to some unusually favorable business climate is absurd," said James K. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
First, Texas is an energy state, so it benefits from the run-up in oil prices, he said. Then Texas dodged much of the subprime housing bust, so it never lost as many jobs.
When the Dallas Fed reports on "net new jobs," he said, Texas' gains are exaggerated, because other big states lost so many.
Galbraith said the final chapter hasn't been written, either. Austin's budget cuts will eliminate work for thousands of teachers and others in coming months, which has already happened elsewhere.
That's a cool poster of Perry- I didn't know he was a member of the "Village People"!
Texas ranks near the bottom in every "quality of life" catagory: health, education, poverty, the environment, public spending per citizen, number of high school graduates, poverty and hunger among children. You name it.
I don't care how many temporary minimum wage jobs the current boom is creating. It's not sustainable. All those folks moving there for jobs are used to living in a civilized society. As soon as it's economically feasable, they'll move out again. Boom-bust, boom-bust. Texas' combination of rapid growth and lackadasical government are going to lead to HUGE problems in the next ten years. At the rate you're going, you are going to wind up a third-world state- skyscrapers and mud huts.
You could use a few more "libruls" to help you get a handle on this stuff, rather than chase them all away!
That's a pretty lousy record for Perry to run on- "Vote for me and I'll do for the US what I did to Texas". Ummmm, no thanks!
Uh, I thought the RW mantra was government DOES NOT create jobs?
Story of Texas job growth not that simple | Mitchell Schnurman | Dallas Business, Texas ... (http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/14/3152456/story-of-texas-job-growth-not.html - broken link)
From the linked article:
"The notion that Texas' recent performance is due to some unusually favorable business climate is absurd," said James K. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
First, Texas is an energy state, so it benefits from the run-up in oil prices, he said. Then Texas dodged much of the subprime housing bust, so it never lost as many jobs.
When the Dallas Fed reports on "net new jobs," he said, Texas' gains are exaggerated, because other big states lost so many.
Galbraith said the final chapter hasn't been written, either. Austin's budget cuts will eliminate work for thousands of teachers and others in coming months, which has already happened elsewhere.
Tell us what exactly Perry did to create any jobs.
Casper
To create an environment for the private sector to create jobs you provide certainty rather than uncertainty regarding what the government is going to do next, eliminate onerous regulation, keep their taxes low, not force unionization on them, eliminate frivolous lawsuits, not declare war on the Chamber of Commerce, not issue moratoriums on industries so businesses take their jobs elsewhere, and at the governor level, I'd like to add, you schmooze with them, not treat them like the enemy.
The smartest thing President Obama could have done early in his administration was to head to Texas to see what they were doing right regarding job creation and talking to the Chamber of Commerce not villifying them. But nooooooo, he had to concentrate on Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare, Cap and Trade, refereeing a dispute between a cop and a professor, and bailing out and running General Motors to make his union donors happy. The American Public told him right from the get-go that jobs were important and he didn't listen. He just pushed his own agenda.
To create an environment for the private sector to create jobs you provide certainty rather than uncertainty regarding what the government is going to do next, eliminate onerous regulation, keep their taxes low, not force unionization on them, eliminate frivolous lawsuits, not declare war on the Chamber of Commerce, not issue moratoriums on industries so businesses take their jobs elsewhere, and at the governor level, I'd like to add, you schmooze with them, not treat them like the enemy.
The smartest thing President Obama could have done early in his administration was to head to Texas to see what they were doing right regarding job creation and talking to the Chamber of Commerce not villifying them. But nooooooo, he had to concentrate on Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare, Cap and Trade, refereeing a dispute between a cop and a professor, and bailing out and running General Motors to make his union donors happy. The American Public told him right from the get-go that jobs were important and he didn't listen. He just pushed his own agenda.
All the things you mentoned were in place before Perry, loooong before Perry. I will admit he is good a schmoozing, but then again that has to do with being bought.
Yes, the President and the Nation could learn a few things from Texas, but on certain subjets Texas could use a few lessons also, thing is, where Texas is doing things right it has little to do with anything Perry has done.
Casper
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