Posted on 08/10/2011 2:26:36 PM PDT by wolfcreek
Amid huge corporate losses, massive job layoffs, government bailouts, unsustainable national deficit spending, state bonds rated as junk and discussions of states filing for bankruptcy, Texas stands out as a shining example of economic stability and growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Governor Perry is indeed a leader.
Texas has the second most people, Duh.
Gimmie gimmie gimmie
In April of this year California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom along with two other democrats visited Texas and met with Gov. Perry and others to find the secret to our success. As usual it was water off a duck’s back, no lessons learned.
Farmers upset over Perry veto of eminent domain bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852420/posts
The state of the Texas economy makes Perry a juggernaut of candidate.
Do you even bother to read about the subject?
“Texas doesn’t appear to be overextended. In a May report, Standard & Poor’s gave the state an AA+ rating, citing its outperforming economy, strong cash management and constitutional limits on debt.
“Texas has what we consider to be a very low net debt burden,” S&P wrote. “
Jealous Yankee
Thank you indeed. I plan to support him for President from here in New Jersey. I hope to retire in the great state of Texas in a couple of years.
So what you are trying to tell people is that even though California and New York received similar or even more money than Texas, they were ineffective in using it?
Old spam again my FRiend?
http://propertyrightsalliance.org/governor-perry-signs-eminent-domain-reform-a2970
Just pointing out the facts for the Perry groin leeches because they don’t appear to have the manhood to face reality on their own.
Maybe they would like to talk about St Rick, the patron saint of border crossers.
Rick Perry is far from a Saint. Like all the other candidates and possible candidates.
Do you have the source for that previous graphic? I was interested in seeing the actual numbers and what the total added up to. Not trying to debate it in any way, just my own curiosity about the total from the feds.
Still more infuriating to the people of Texas was that the deal would have mandated that there be no free alternative competing roads, meaning such vital arteries as I-35 and I-45 along with I-10, I-20, and I-30 would have been required to become toll roads as well. This, combined with the projected $0.26-$0.40 per mile they intended to charge made it an unconscionable bit of corporate predation that would have crippled the Texas economy.
These things, together with the expanded use of eminent domain by the state on behalf of a corporate contract made this project much too bitter a pill for Texans to swallow. It actually spawned an independent gubernatorial campaign by former Texas comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. It generated much ill will between Perry and his conservative voters, so that at present, while they think he’s better than a Democrat, the difference is only slight, and he should bear just as much attentive watching.
Perry hasn’t given up his Trans Texas Corridor plans, but they’ve been scaled back and re-named. Once again, the Governor of Texas has shown his willingness to climb into bed with corporate masters, and more importantly, just as with the Gardasil issue, former staff members seem to be part of a constant recycling through a revolving door between his corporate cronies and his own office.
This is precisely the sort of governance the country does not need, Washington already being thoroughly polluted with such schemes.
Governor Perry’s appeal to conservatives seems to hinge on his Christian values, but the problem is that his proclaimed Christian values are in distinct and thorough opposition to some of his actions as governor. At the same time he seeks to share the stage at TEA Party events, always ready to throw out more red meat for the crowd, but seems much less than sincere in his stance by the time he arrives back at his office. This sort of schizophrenic, unprincipled and insincere conservatism is already thoroughly represented in DC, and while Mr. Perry would certainly feel at home there, the politicos in DC being his kind of people, I’m strongly convinced that while he might do well in such a role, it’s not clear that the country would fare any better.
When you examine his record in its totality, what you find is not that Governor Perry has been such a capable steward of the Texas economy, but that surprisingly, the Texas Legislature has fulfilled that role, bouncing egregious Perry initiatives in a number of cases.
The Trans Texas Corridor project would have crippled commerce in this state, and contrary to the billing, would have achieved little but to make Texas just another link in the NAFTA chain, bypassed by most of the commerce, its people tasked with the duty to pay for a system of toll roads from which they would see little benefit, but would bring substantial costs.
For these reasons, and a lengthy list of similar problems, I cannot recommend the governor of my state, Texas, to the people of America. It’s not so much that he’s presided over an economy of his creation, so much as the fact that the people of Texas have managed to succeed in spite of him. Given his embellished relation to the relatively good performance of the Texas economy in admittedly hard times, and acknowledging that the damage he might have done, had he been unopposed by a conservative legislature, it’s clear that while Rick Perry might be good for corporatist Washington, he’s not the right choice for America.
Show me a border state that doesn’t have big problems. It’s the feds that need to step up and secure the border.
Its from recovery.gov but I don’t see anything wrong with the numbers aside from the problems we already know. In fact the real issues appear when you zoom in. For instance, 5.5 million dollars awarded to Michigan only produced some 10,000 jobs (many of those were census jobs)
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Paying taxes is no excuse for having a hand out. Its like a crack addict asking the crack dealer to keep giving him crack that he’s already paid for. The cycle has to be broken, not justified and perpetuated.
As far as immigration is concerned, we can’t afford another “flawed” candidate. If there are 30 million illegals in America, that’s enough to populate more than 50 congressional districts. Those here are an enormous burden on our economy and if allowed to stay and bring their extended families they will be the cause of a permenent democrat majority.
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