Why It Will Be President Perry in 2013

Abdul Alhazred

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A wishful thinking piece that does NOT reflect my own wishful thinking:

Why It Will Be President Perry in 2013
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Normally I wouldn't bother, but there's one particular bit of mendacity that needs answering.

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1. HE CREATED MORE JOBS THAN OBAMA:
Of all the issues that will face the nation in 2012, the one that weighs even now most on the minds of those around household dinner tables is where they will find the next month's paycheck. In my book I detail the deterioration and the inexplicable refusal of solutions that will work by the Obama administration. President Obama was hired to make the economy better, to lower unemployment, to see Americans grow wealth, and at every level he has failed. It's bad enough that one out of ten workers can't find work. But the most damning statistic is that one out of five families is working as hard as they possibly can, but still can't pay their bills. Meanwhile over that same period of time Governor Perry has overseen job growth in Texas that sits at 47% of all jobs created in the entirety of the United States -- just during the two and half years Obama's been in office.

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This is true as far as it goes, but the way he brought all those jobs to Texas was by luring companies from other states within the USA. How's he going to scale that up nationwide?
 
Abdul Alhazred said:
This is true as far as it goes, but the way he brought all those jobs to Texas was by luring companies from other states within the USA. How's he going to scale that up nationwide?
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Go worldwide of course. Perry is already doing it with education.

TDM Contracting was only a month old when it won its first job, an $8.2 million contract to build the Harmony School of Innovation, a publicly financed charter school that opened last fall in San Antonio.
It was one of six big charter school contracts TDM and another upstart company have shared since January 2009, a total of $50 million in construction business. Other companies scrambling for work in a poor economy wondered: How had they qualified for such big jobs so fast?
The secret lay in the meteoric rise and financial clout of the Cosmos Foundation, a charter school operator founded a decade ago by a group of professors and businessmen from Turkey. Operating under the name Harmony Schools, Cosmos has moved quickly to become the largest charter school operator in Texas, with 33 schools receiving more than $100 million a year in taxpayer funds.
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http://www.restoreokpubliceducation.com/node/688
 
But the most damning statistic is that one out of five families is working as hard as they possibly can, but still can't pay their bills.

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Governor Perry has reduced trivial regulation and made Texas such a dynamic environment to grow business that corporations are relocating from the troubled states of California and New York, just to set up shop, provide better service, and pay their workers better wages.
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While I am pleased to see Republicans fighting economic inequality, I have to wonder where this guy got his numbers.

Texas has the third-largest employment shortfall among all states, according to an Economic Policy Institute study. In other words, only two states fared worse in their inability to not only make up for the jobs lost during the recession but to accommodate population growth. The Texas economy is nearly 650,000 jobs short of what it needs to keep up with the growth of the working-age population.

Most of the jobs being produced in Texas don't come with Texas-sized wages. Just the opposite, as the Texas Independent recently reported: Texas is the state with the largest percentage of its workers earning minimum wage or less: almost 10 percent. In fact, 12 percent of all of the nation's minimum wage workers work in Texas. And the numbers of minimum wage workers grew by 76,000 from 2009 to 2010. Also, Texas hourly workers earn $1.30 an hour less than the national average: $11.20 an hour compared to $12.50 nationally in 2010.

Texans on average only saw their wages increase about a half percent between December 2007 and April 2011. That compares to 9.3 percent in California, 2.5 percent in New York, and the United States average of 5 percent.

Texans are no slouch, though, when it comes to rewarding the wealthy. Texas CEOs saw their average salary increase 45 percent between 2000 and 2010, adjusted for inflation. Their secretaries and support staff, on the other hand, saw their average salaries increase only 1.7 percent. In general, average workers saw their inflation-adjusted salaries increase between 5 and 7 percent. Their supervisors on average saw their income increase almost 30 percent. (These are calculated based on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for 2000 and 2010 by our researcher Eric Hunt.)

A higher percentage of Texans lived in poverty in 2009 (17.1 percent) than did in 2001 (15.2 percent) when Perry became governor, according to the U.S. Census Breau. It is exceeded only by California in the number of people in the state receiving food stamps, 3.6 million. Yet, as the number of poor and working poor people increase, Texas is shredding its safety net, with state spending on social services cut by 17 percent.
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Linky,

While this guy is not trying to hawk his book, he does source his data. Of course, it helps that he has data in the first place...
 
He creates jobs by deregulating and privatizing stuff.

Right. Flush the environmental safe guards and turn the schools into a profit center for business (and an opportunity for the business community to see to it that the schools crank out a whole flock of sheep who see the world through Rand-tinted glasses.)

We need Perry like a Bar Mitzvah needs lobster.
 
Abdul Alhazred said:
This is true as far as it goes, but the way he brought all those jobs to Texas was by luring companies from other states within the USA. How's he going to scale that up nationwide?
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Suck 'em back out of Texas? 49/50 ain't too bad.
 
Yeah, Rick Perry created jobs. Of course he used sixteen billion in Federal stimulus money to help do so, this after publicly opposing the stimulus package and swearing not to accept the money because it had "strings attached". And of course, none of those jobs saved were teaching jobs. He's eviscerated the state education budget and our schools, already some of the worst in the nation, are expected to decline further. Plus it has the laxest environmental enforcement of practically any state.

Perry has been a nightmare for Texas and would be even worse as President, since he wouldn't have the Federal government to bail him out of his budget fiascos.
 
The late, great Molly Ivins nicknamed him "Good Hair" Perry, as that was the single thing she approved of.

Molly was an undeniable liberal, but she had a way with words. And did her homework.

I refuse to take a man nicknamed "Good Hair" seriously.
 
According to that article having core convictions, valuing state and national sovereignty, and caring about small business are qualities that win Presidents elections.

Sounds wonderful but unfortunately from what I've observed the politicians that have the most principles usually don't get elected; they get destroyed by the politicians who are unprincipled; Presidents pretty much have to have the support of the CFR and they support big business; secondly caring about state and national sovereignty would also be against the aims of the CFR who want to create one world corporatist oligarchy run by international bankers/banks
 
The funny thing about Texas, with the growth in the Hispanic population, It will be democratic by 2016.
 
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