Texas, the jobs engine

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 3, 2011 | Rick Wartzman

[Clairity]

Conservatives hail it and liberals dispute the story, but one thing is certain about the Lone Star State's employment success: The number is real.

According to the Dallas Fed, Texas generated 43% of the net new jobs in the U.S. from June 2009 through May 2011 - an enormous share when you consider that the Lone Star State accounts for about 8% of the nation's economy.

...conservatives were quick to celebrate, embracing the jobs tally as powerful evidence of the superiority of Republican ideas as well as proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would make a good president.

Texas is attracting businesses, in part, because it has low taxes.

it is clear that the state's limits on taxes, regulations and lawsuits are contributing to the job machine.

[Clairity]

That's what we need in the US overall, the Texas model of low taxes, limited regulations and tort reform.

[Steely Tom]

All part and parcel of the Republican plan to sabotage the United States economy.

[Clairity]

Your tagline is sadly accurate. “Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone”

Optimistic Obama: “I Got Five-And-A-Half Years More To Go”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2742628/posts

[Windflier]

[JimBianchi11]

Five and a half years, my ass......

[smoothsailing]

That's what we need in the US overall, the Texas model of low taxes, limited regulations and tort reform.

Yep, that and a President and Congress who sees it the same way and push for it and defend it.

[Steely Tom]

I’m glad he’s so confident. That’s how we want him.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

That's what we need in the US overall, the Texas model of low taxes, limited regulations and tort reform.

Yeah, but what we'll get is a lot of liberals swarming from the ruins of California to Texas like locusts, where they'll get jobs and houses, and then proceed to vote in the same kind of failed welfare-state policies and politicians that have destroyed California.

That's what happened when they fled the Rust Belt states for California in the '80s and '90s. The Golden State used to be Reagan Country.

[Grams A]

We are already being overrun by liberals and illegals in Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Certainly don’t need any more.

[unkus]

Yeah, but what we’ll get is a lot of liberals swarming from the ruins of California to Texas like locusts, where they’ll get jobs and houses, and then proceed to vote in the same kind of failed welfare-state policies and politicians that have destroyed California.

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Austin is already going in the toilet. It’s a Lib mecca.

[unkus]

Yeah, but what we’ll get is a lot of liberals swarming from the ruins of California to Texas like locusts, where they’ll get jobs and houses, and then proceed to vote in the same kind of failed welfare-state policies and politicians that have destroyed California.

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Austin is already going in the toilet. It’s a Lib mecca.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

July 2, 2011: Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future (Montana looks to Rick Perry's TX model) “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.

He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.

When new or relocating companies and investors survey the landscape and consider Montana, what do they see? Well, when it comes to natural-resource development, the landscape looks risky. ….”

[q_an_a]

the voice of wisdom SOMEONE READ HIS COMMENT!! Every major city in Texas has a DemocRAT leadership and a majority on their councils. even the suburbs are turning to regualtions beyond all imagination.

Want to know about Dallas/Ft Worth growth - AT&T, Verizon, Nokia, RIM, Texas Inst. all ajor players in cell and wireless how much growth happened there - these folks came to the area a long time ago. Then there is the explosion caused by slant drilling in the Barnet Shale which is now spreading across America. This happened without Perry or any other government person helping. Finally how many kids play video games - created by or sold by Dallas based companies 80%. Take away any of those and the stories look a little less compelling.

The people came because of the setup for business then they came to be near the other players. Heck we have probably built more food emporiums...grocery or dining than all other jobs in the country - just to service the folks working in the above named companies.

[Texas Eagle]

Obama 2012: Making America One Big Chicago

Perry 2012: Making America One Big Texas

Choose wisely

[shield]

The Great State of TEXAS....

[Texas Eagle]

Texas is attracting businesses, in part, because it has low taxes. But that, in turn, makes for a smaller safety net, which is one reason Texas has a high incidence of poverty and, compared with every other state, the biggest proportion of its population without health insurance.

For every silver lining, there's a cloud, eh, LA Times?

California's safety net is so large it's basically a hammock.

You telling me there's no poverty in California? You telling me there are no Californians without health insurance?

[Texas Eagle]

This is why California is doomed. This story written by the Times Editorial Staff appears on the same web page as the story detailing Texas' success story....

Unfair working conditions: Blame greed, not the economy

[pepperdog]

Put that on a tee-shirt and you'll make a liberal’s head blow up!