Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government Subsidies

The State Column ^ | August 21, 2011 | Staff

[AAABEST]

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the latest GOP candidate to enter the 2012 presidential race, looks to challenge former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s status as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Perry entered the race on August 13th after announcing his candidacy at an event in South Carolina. Perry’s announcement, which stole the spotlight from the Ames Straw Poll, put to rest several months of speculation about the Texas Governor’s decision to run for the GOP nomination.

During his presidential announcement, Perry said “we cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership.” Perry also added that “page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.”

Ever since his presidential announcement in South Carolina, Perry’s criticism of the Obama administration has been relentless. More recently, Perry criticized the Obama administration’s comments on food stamps or the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it’s also an economic stimulus.” Vilsack also added that “it’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times,” because of the work that goes into an item of food before it ends up in the grocery store.

While campaigning in South Carolina on Friday, Perry slammed the Obama administration’s view of food stamps and other government subsidies. “Most Americans do not yearn to be dependent on government subsidies, they want economic freedom, and economic freedom comes from work and wages, not welfare,” Perry argued.

One of the focal points of Perry’s presidential campaign is the longest serving Texas Governor’s record on job creation. Forty percent of the nation’s new jobs have been created in the Lone Star State since June 2009. “Our message is clear, we’ve got to get America working again,” Perry said during a campaign stop in South Carolina on Saturday.

Perry believes strongly that government subsidies, such as food stamps, shouldn’t be on the government’s list of responsibilities. “The central issue of this election is an Administration that believes Washington must be our caretaker, and a people who want Washington to only take care of their constitutional responsibilities,” Perry professed.

Besides reiterating his belief that food stamps aren’t “economic stimulus,” Perry talked about the need to focus on the private sector when it comes to job creation. “We have tried two and a half years of government trying to create jobs, it’s time to let the private sector get to work,” Perry argued.

[mikhailovich]

What state are you from? Texas?

[dragnet2]

The correct word is Texian and it refers to the original settlers of Texas.

My neighbor from Texas, calls Texas, Texico.

[wolfcreek]

Been vetting and making Perry a better governor for years.

Trying to tie him to La Raza is a non sequitur.

[Politicalmom]

State colleges are taxpayer subsidized. Those illegals are getting more than they are paying for, and they can’t even legally work when they graduate.

[dragnet2]

Trying to tie him to La Raza is a non sequitur.

The BS here is suffocating.

Perry did it to himself, by going to La Raza. This does nothing but lend legitimacy and credence to this racist organization, an organization that is 100 percent pro-illegal alien.

You might sell this garbage to some here, but those capable of critical thought, can see right through this wholesale sellout and support for La Raza.

[Politicalmom]

Oh, please.

I didn’t get to make any “decision” when my ex-husband dumped me and my four children. If I didn’t have child support, my children and I would be living in the streets.

[Ditter]

I was explaining the origin of the word Texian.
I am sure your neighbor has his reasons.
South Texas is indeed like Mexico, east Texas is like Louisiana, west Texas is like New Mexico, central Texas is pretty unique, except it reminds me of central Spain. So what was your point?

[wolfcreek]

So what ya’ll gonna do when Perry wins the nomination?

Maybe as presidnet he can help clean up California?

[mikhailovich]

I'm not supporting or defending La Raza, but their website has a number of comments directed at rumors and their critics. Among them, these quotes:

Another misconception about NCLR is the allegation that we support a “Reconquista,” or the right of Mexico to reclaim land in the southwestern United States. NCLR has not made and does not make any such claim; indeed, such a claim is so far outside of the mainstream of the Latino community that we find it incredible that our critics raise it as an issue. NCLR has never supported and does not endorse the notion of a “Reconquista” or “Aztlán.” Similarly, NCLR’s critics falsely claim that the statement “Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada,” [“For the community everything, outside the community nothing”] is NCLR’s motto. NCLR unequivocally rejects this statement, which is not and has never been the motto of any Latino organization.

and:

Unfortunately, NCLR has been called an “open-borders advocate” and the “illegal alien lobby” numerous times. NCLR has repeatedly recognized the right of the United States, as a sovereign nation, to control its borders. Moreover, NCLR has supported numerous specific measures to strengthen border enforcement, provided that such enforcement is conducted fairly, humanely, and in a nondiscriminatory fashion.

and:

Many people incorrectly translate our name, “La Raza,” as “the race.” While it is true that one meaning of “raza” in Spanish is indeed “race,” in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, “La Raza” means “the people” or “the community.” Translating our name as “the race” is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.

The term “La Raza” has its origins in early 20th century Latin American literature and translates into English most closely as “the people” or, according to some scholars, as “the Hispanic people of the New World.” The term was coined by Mexican scholar José Vasconcelos to reflect the fact that the people of Latin America are a mixture of many of the world’s races, cultures, and religions. Mistranslating “La Raza” to mean “the race” implies that it is a term meant to exclude others.

and:

NCLR has never supported, and does not support, separatist organizations. Some critics have accused MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán) of being a separatist organization and denounced NCLR for being a purported “major funder” of the organization. The reality is that in 2003, NCLR provided one chapter of the organization (Georgetown University) with a $2,500 subgrant to support a conference of Latino students—mainly from the Southwest and West Coast—who were attending East Coast colleges but could not afford to travel home for Thanksgiving. These Latino student groups hold mini-conferences with workshops and speakers, bringing together students who are often the first high school graduates and college attendees in their families.

According to its mission statement, MEChA is a student organization whose primary objectives are educational—to help Latino students finish high school and go to college, and to support them while at institutions of higher education. NCLR freely acknowledges that some of the organization’s founding documents, e.g., Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, contain inappropriate rhetoric, and NCLR also acknowledges that rhetoric from some MEChA members has been extremist and inflammatory. In a June 2006 Los Angeles Times op-ed, journalist Gustavo Arellano noted that all of the MEChA members of his class graduated from college and have gone on to successful careers, a rarity at a time when only 12% of Latinos have a college degree. And to the group’s founding documents, Arellano also pointed out that “few members take these dated relics of the 1960s seriously, if they even bothered to read them.”

NCLR has publicly and repeatedly disavowed this rhetoric as we have others that we believe are inappropriate, as we did when we criticized a pro-separatist Latino website for its racist and anti-Semitic views. We will continue, however, to support programs and activities that help more Hispanics enter and finish college.

[dragnet2]

My point, people in government like Perry, Bush, Clinton, the feds and local governments have pandered to and aided and abetted this wholesale violent invasion of our country, where nick names such as Mexifornia, Texico, Mexas, Mexizona and Americo were developed.

Nice huh?

[dragnet2]

Trying to tie him to La Raza is a non sequitur.

The BS here is suffocating.

Perry did it to himself, by going to La Raza. This does nothing but lend legitimacy and credence to this racist organization, an organization that is 100 percent pro-illegal alien.

You might sell this garbage to some here, but those capable of critical thought, can see right through this wholesale sellout and support for La Raza.

So what ya’ll gonna do when Perry wins the nomination?

Same thing I did with Bush, I'll be thinking people got hoodwinked again by the political insiders and open border crowd.

BTW, see the tagline.

[okie01]

South Texas is indeed like Mexico, east Texas is like Louisiana, west Texas is like New Mexico, central Texas is pretty unique, except it reminds me of central Spain.

You forgot North Texas. Or, as we lovingly refer to it, Baja Oklahoma.

[Lady Lucky]

Absolutely, I’d rather vote for Palin than Perry.

[Ditter]

I have heard the opinion that if Mexico did not have the escape valve that is the USA that we would have a communist nation on our southern border.

I blame the corruption in the Mexican government for everything. Everything is getting worse and short of invading them and taking control, I can’t think of a solution.

I can’t see a physical fence doing much good. Cities that have fences say “Hey a fence works” but the invaders are just going around the end of it. A tall fence would just force them to build taller ladders or dig longer tunnels.

But what do I know I’m just an old woman and I am not in charge of anything but my dogs.

[LomanBill]

>>The correct word is Texian

Well, what’s the correct word for the Texas historical revisionists who tried to exclude Thomas Jefferson from thier public skewal curriculum, hmmm?

Dumbarse, maybe?

[LomanBill]

[I'm not supporting or defending La Raza, but their website has a number of comments]

 

I don't give a rats arse what their propaganda site says.

 

I grew up in family of Denver cops who saw La Raza's "Crusade" up close and personal.

"a bomb exploded in the upper floors of the Downing Terrace apartments, which were in the possession of the Crusade.[21] One man was killed and seventeen were injured, among them 12 police officers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Gonzales

La Raza's roots grow from the same leftist horseshyte that brought us Barry Soetoro and Billy Ayers.

 

Don't need no Weatherman to see which way that wind blows.

 

NO SALE.

 

[Ditter]

What are you talking about? Texian is not a revisionist word. Texican comes from the movies. Keep using it. It makes you sound really stupid to those who know the difference.

[LomanBill]

>>What are you talking about? Texian is not a revisionist word.

Well what’s a word for removing Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the American Declaration of Independence, from the Texas School Curriculum?

Revisionists are as revisionists do.

[LomanBill]

>>What state are you from? Texas?

Nope, one that still has Thomas Jefferson in it's public school curriculum.

 

 

[Ditter]

Hey Bill I graduated from a Texas high school in 1958, Thomas Jefferson was in my American History book. I have kind of lost track since then. Now buzz off you are very irritating and I would like to lose track of you.