toldailytopic: What do you think of Rick Perry?

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Liberal cannot discredit Rick Perry

August 17, 2011 by Don Surber

Texas leads the nation in job production because of 17+ years of Republican
governors — George W. Bush and Rick Perry — and conservative legislatures.

They have kept taxes and regulations low.

When it comes to the economy, Rick Perry runs rings around President Obama.

The left cannot stand the facts and so Matthias Shapiro at Political Math spent
4 hours pouring over records to find some way of discrediting Rick Perry's job
performance.

Seriously, 4 hours.

And he failed to find the magic hole in the Texas economy that discredits Rick
Perry's economic development efforts.

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2. "Sure Texas has lots of jobs but they're mostly low-paying/minimum wage
jobs."

But this is not true. He wrote: "Texas median hourly wage is $15.14 — almost
exactly in the middle of the pack (28th out of 51 regions). Given that they've
seen exceptional job growth (and these other states have not) this does not seem exceptionally low."

I would add that newly created jobs are lower paying compared to old jobs. Also, Texas is a right-to-work state.
 
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rocketman said:
If eameme hates him this guy must be a non-socialist, awesome! :thumb:

I'm sure Gov. Perry will be torn up inside knowing he doesn't have your vote. :chuckle:
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I'm sure he knows he never had my vote. But if he has yours, that says a lot about you.
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olsparky said:
2. "Sure Texas has lots of jobs but they're mostly low-paying/minimum wage
jobs."

But this is not true. He wrote: "Texas median hourly wage is $15.14 — almost
exactly in the middle of the pack (28th out of 51 regions). Given that they've
seen exceptional job growth (and these other states have not) this does not seem exceptionally low."

I would add that newly created jobs are lower paying compared to old jobs. Also, Texas is a right-to-work state.
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Yeah, workers have NO rights. I wonder if that "median" is created from a few who make astronomical salaries (oil company CEOs) and the many who make minimum wage. After all, Texas has the greatest income inequality in the country.

All that "technology" innovation consists of Perry giving out money to his campaign financiers.
 
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Frank Ernest said:
Rick Perry is fine with me. I would like to see the Repub nomination go right to the convention floor. Hey! Ryan is making some DC noises about running! More the merrier. Got lots to pick from.
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I agree! More right-wingers will dilute their votes, and Romney will squeak through! Run Sarah run!
 
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What I am reading of him, seems similar to George W Bush, and less like Reagan.
 
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eameece said:
He'll work for anyone who pays him. He doles out favors to his contributors by the billions.
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He sounds a lot like Obama here. I guess that explains his working for and supporting Al Gore in the past.
 
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Posted by choleric on the what do you think of Bachmann page, but I think it belongs here:

#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.

#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.

#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?

#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.

#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.

#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.

#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.

#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.

#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year....

•  We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.

•  We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.

•  We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.

#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.

#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.

#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.

#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.

#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when "apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work."
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The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.

It's bogus point given that Texas SPENDS less per resident than any state in the union. Any debt was created by the recession and the fact Texas legislators couldn't deal with the deficit for two years as it has bi-annual budgets.

Texas was running an 11 billion dollar surplus before the recession hit in 2008.
 
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Nick M said:
He sounds a lot like Obama here. I guess that explains his working for and supporting Al Gore in the past.
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He was a conservative Democrat that supported the pro-life, more conservative alternative to Dukakis at the time.

But who payed him to sign legislation defunding Planned Parenthood?
 
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Nick M said:
What I am reading of him, seems similar to George W Bush, and less like Reagan.
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He is the opposite of Bush in regard to government spending. Texas spends less per resident than any state in the union and ranks near the bottom in Medicaid spending.

Before the recession, Texas was running 11 billion dollar surpluses.

That is a lot different than Bush's open "compassionate" conservatism and massive deficit spending.
 
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olsparky said:
The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.

It's bogus point given that Texas SPENDS less per resident than any state in the union. Any debt was created by the recession and the fact Texas legislators couldn't deal with the deficit for two years as it has bi-annual budgets.

Texas was running an 11 billion dollar surplus before the recession hit in 2008.
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It sounds like a lame excuse to me. An unsolved debt after only 2 years is pretty inefficient. And if the deficit is caused by the recession, then Texas is not "recession proof" as Perry claims. It would appear that in Texas, the citizens get the most debt, and still get the least for their tax money, since so little of it is spent on their needs.
 
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olsparky said:
He is the opposite of Bush in regard to government spending. Texas spends less per resident than any state in the union and ranks near the bottom in Medicaid spending.

Before the recession, Texas was running 11 billion dollar surpluses.

That is a lot different than Bush's open "compassionate" conservatism and massive deficit spending.
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Other reports show large increases in his budget. Namely doubling in just a decade under him. If the Texas economy grows, and the government only grows as a percent of GDP, that isn't too bad. Like in the US. Obama and Nancy Peolosi quadrupled the amount of spending as a percent to the GDP. Forget the actual dollar amounts, they increased the size of government as a whole, not just through economic growth. What did Bush do as governor? Besides execute murderers. (as he should)

It isn't easy sorting through the nonsense on the internet. Keep it coming. But I do get the impression he repented of being a democrat. So did Reagan.
 
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