Because of Perry possibly running, the liberal elites in NYC have to start in on what a shitty place it is down here…but…
Without Texas Obongo’s job numbers would be WAY WORSE than they are now. Texas has created more jobs than any other state by far. Perry has been governor starting on his THIRD term now.
But the presiding governor of that state is a threat to the man child who gives ole Chrissy a thrill up his leg…so gotta start the degeneration early and often. I can’t wait for the argument of “the last time we had a president from Texas look at what happened”, and other straw man arguments.
I have my faults with Perry but its hard to argue with results, and the results are this state has BY FAR created more jobs than any other in the last 2-3 years, and :
That figure traces to research by the Federal Reserve branch in Dallas that determined that between June 2009, the month marked by the National Bureau of Economic Research as the end of the recession, and April 2011, Texas accounted for 37 percent of net job gains nationally, by one calculation, or 45 percent, by another.
With a country eager to get back to low unemployment how could Obama ever defend against that line?
Oh wait, it will get much, much worse, as we all know.
They will bring up teacher salaries, high school graduation rates, anything they can think of to create misleading statistics.
I’m not a blind follower of Perry. I’m not thrilled at all about his lip service regarding illegal immigration. But he’s definitely a candidate to take seriously. He’s never lost an election.
Perry is coming up in talk circles more and more often as of late. In my opinion he definitely fits the label of RINO. Just for fun did you know he used to be a Democrat? Did you also know he was Al Gore’s campaign manager? More fun facts about Perry:
I don’t see the need to bash the shit out of Texas or its citizenry, but if folks want to out Rick Perry for being a pandering POS that suits me just fine.
I know he’s not my dream candidate. Im just saying he is one I think would stand a good chance of beating Obama. He is on his THIRD term as our gov so yes there is going to be stupid ideas he has had along the way, and plenty of mistakes. At least he has a record other than “present”, and served out a full term at something before campaigning for the next spot.
Still its hard to argue with the success this state has had, and I think part of the spending jump has to do with the huge influx of people we’ve had here.
I read the article about the debt, and most of the “doubling of the debt” seems to not be anything Perry did personally. It says he’s one of FOUR who overseas bond transactions, voters approved one of the major bond issuance, and the general debt has only increased 6%. I think Texas is a bit different in government such as schools have taxing authority, and the state legislature only meets every two years. There was talk of debt last year because the expenditures the previous two years were based on projected incomes. Most of this was fixed this year as it was a meeting year. Overall we have a low cost of living, low DMV fees, my insurance went down when I moved here, no state income tax, property taxes are not too bad. Hard to complain about it.
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Also there is a lot of hoopla about the trans texas corridor. Im not sure why people are so against free trade with other nations, and eminent domain for public benefit. Without eminent domain we would not have an interstate system to begin with. Its not like people are left out on their asses. They get fair market value for the land. Although I don’t like illegal aliens or the cartels in MX they have always been a trading partner with us. Ive talked to people who lived by the border, and it wasn’t uncommon to go back and forth multiple times a day with with no checkpoints or whatnot. You could walk down the street and not even realize you were in MX. Then the Feds came in and walled off all these areas forever splitting what used to be positive relations between communities. Hell my mom used to take us to MX by herself, and we’d walk around. Ive been there many times.
Granted I think the US has been getting the short end of the stick for a long time when it comes to trade I don’t see anything wrong with welcoming MX as a trading partner, and we should be helping them with their cartel problem. Thats one reason we need the mil down there…but I think most of that can be fixed with our drug, employment, and criminal laws along with helping MX get their domestic situation under control. We had help as a nation from others during our founding, and probably would have lost with out that help.
The liberal press is just shifting targets because Perry with launch with a lot of momentum.
The press wants to destroy whoever they believe is the front runner. This is not about journalism, or informing the people. This is character assassination because his accomplishments will never get as much press as aspects of him that inflame liberals.
Texas isn’t excelling and prosperous because of Rick Perry…we’re excelling in spite of him.
Almost everything that is in place to make Texas a business friendly state and a great place to live were already in existence long before Perry.
No income tax, a booming oil industry, agriculture, and a low cost of living already existed here. He has simply managed by the skin of his teeth to not blow it.
With that said I also tend to think that he’s preferable to every other candidate in the race with the exception of Rep. Paul(who is unlikely to win the primary much less general election.) I think his success will hinge on how far up social conservative creek he decides to take his rhetoric. If he can come off as socially moderate then he could be a real winner.
Isn’t it sad that we have to think like this because 90% of the voting public are ding-dongs and vote with their feelings??
The evidence of Obama was shared with the masses for all to know his true colors…the EVIDENCE was there, the HISTORY was there. Tigers don’t ‘change’:rolleyes: their colors and it was bought hook, line and sinker.
How a great orator can overcome the facts of their true political agenda tells me the voting public is stupid and too emotional.
As the drought continues, you can find thousands of trees across the city marked like the one above. As these already established trees become weakened from the drought, all sorts of pests and parasites begin to kill them and spread to the rest of the trees.
I’m not a tree-hugger, and I’m not one who usually does a lot of praying…but the situation is pretty damned sad. Surely he didn’t think praying in a big group was going to help, but perhaps it gave some people a sense of community and comfort. I give him a pass…and the public figure praying thing usually creeps me out.
Between 2000 and now there has been a 25-30% increase in population not even counting who knows how many illegals.
So going from 49-90 billion isn’t all that bad as it does when you don’t look at the big picture, and part of that 90 billion was stimulus funds Obama sent us. There have also been things like MANDATED spending on things since 2000 like NCLB and Medicare expenditures, ect.
By far the biggest 2 things in our state budget is health and human services and education both of which are mandated by the Feds. The next biggest thing, IIRC, was stimulus which was 13% of the budget. So if you lop off 13% right off the top its pretty close to our population increase.
It is theater just like the TSA and even less effective.
On top of that he issues a statement as governor asking for people to pray. I have an issue with that. About the only thing that really shocked me about it though is that he didn’t try to use taxpayer money.
I don’t care what religion a person is. But I am sick and tired of elected officials flaunting it and trying to shove it down everyone’s throat. It is one of the reasons I can’t support Perry or Bachmann. They seem to forget that a lot of Americans (And even Republicans) aren’t fundamentalist Christians.
I think the idea of taking money from us, just to give it back to us to spend is fucking retarded. That proves that there is a problem with our tax situation.
The wasteful government programs need to go too.
It also is sad that we have to vote for someone based on whether they are going to win and not because they are the best for the job.
Also have to consider the rest of congress and their influence on the president and laws that are passed.
Who cares if Perry likes to pray in public. Obama is a fucking muslim.
He shouldnt have to hide his religion. Unless that religion is one that thinks we are infidels, then he would have to hide it.
