Posted on 10/02/2011 1:01:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
HAMPTON GOP candidate for president Rick Perry spoke to a room full of people at One Liberty Lane Conference Center in Hampton Saturday, his seventh visit to New Hampshire since announcing his candidacy, which he called a "distinct honor."
Perry immediately and persistently admonished the current White House leadership in his opening speech, especially President Barack Obama, and his party's health care overhaul.
"On my first day as president I will take out a sharpie it doesn't have to be a fancy pen," Perry said, "and I will sign the executive order to wipe out as much of 'Obamacare' as possible." He also promised to eliminate much of what he called the government's intrusion into people's lives.
"If you let me become president, I'll do two things," he said, "I'll take out that pen and completely wipe out as much as I can, and wake up every day, walk into the Oval Office and make sure that Washington D.C. stays out of people's lives."
Perry also attacked the current administration's economic recovery efforts, saying, "Our country is in trouble. One in six people cannot find a job. That is not an economic recovery, that's an economic disaster."
"The key to prosperity is freedom," he said. "It's time for the American people to be free again from big government." A task that Perry said has been happening in his state of Texas for some time.
He claimed that Texas's credit rating has gone up under his care, and attributes that to his own conservative spending policy: "Don't spend all the money." Perry also claimed that in Texas he was able to cut spending for the first time since World War II, and for the first time, was able to create 1 million jobs under his leadership.
"Washington doesn't get that," Perry said. "It's time to get America working again."
On job creation, Perry said, "I know what ails Americans is 26 pages of legislation."
"The billions of dollars spent in the first stimulus didn't work the first time, why would they work the next time?" Perry said that the fastest way to get Americans back to work is through the energy industry. He said his domestic energy policy would include being dependent on America's own form of energy within eight years.
Although he didn't specify what forms of energy the country would be dependent on, the comment prompted a question from a man in the room who asked Perry about his stance on global warming. Perry responded that man-made global warming does not have enough substantial evidence for it to "jeopardize this country." On job creation in the Granite State, Perry said, "If you really want to put a magnet for jobs in New Hampshire, you make this a right-to-work state."
On immigration policy, Perry said he is opposed to amnesty and will always be opposed to amnesty. "For decades we have had a federal government that has failed its constitutional duty to protect its borders," he said. "You have to ask, are we going to have a president that is going to stop the illegal activities happening on the border?"
"Today we have a government that tends to go out with its tentacles and grab as much power as it can," he said.
Perry stuck to his campaign's motto of small government, saying, "To free all these states from federal regulation, is to create jobs that in turn create wealth."
What could there possibly be not to like?
Go Rick, Go
35 million more illegals?
Perry looks nice. Too bad he’s stupid.
Your only purpose for posting to this thread is to disrupt effective dissemination of information.
Do doubt he was bitching because they have not passed amnesty.
Huh? The man who does nothing about sanctuary cities and allows illegals to attend Texas K-12 and get in-state tuition breaks in college is saying he's opposed to amnesty? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it! LOL
Gov. Perry asks for drones and technology, and more boots on the U.S. Mexican border. Meanwhile Texas Rangers are patrolling the U.S. Mexican border (1250 miles) the best they can -- salaries paid by the citizens of Texas. The International border with Mexico is a Federal responsibility but they refuse to do their sworn duty. Instead we find out the U.S. Federal Government bought and GAVE guns to Mexican drug cartels.
Jaime Zapata, a U.S. Special (ICE) Agent from Texas who was investigating human trafficking (required to be unarmed in Mexico -- so the U.S. knew he was a sitting target) was murdered in Mexico (information coming out points to many more murders and crimes tied to the transfer of these guns to Mexican criminals). And Gov. Perry is the headline.
Gov. Rick Perry states that fencing in urban areas is effective but drones and Intel is needed for the rest of the border. His written and personal requests for the U.S. government to seal the border is ignored by the Obama administration and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and instead is sent a few extra people to sit behind desks.
Not something usually associated with Rick Perry.
El Rico and the office pistol....Why do I think of “Dwight” from “The Office”?
Huckabee just never got over Gov. Perry not endorsing him, did he?
Or was it Gov. Perry’s reply to Huckabee when meddling Mike suggested Perry and his family live in a trailer while the [burned by an arsonist] Governor’s mansion in Austin was rebuilt.
Perry: “Texas ain’t Arkansas.”
Being Texas, a quadruple-wide trailer would be needed, and they don’t exist.
You do realize that this is Free Republic and not Democratic Underground, don't you?
>> Too bad hes stupid.
Project much? That’s quite an informative post you have there, yourself.
Amen!
I am challenging you to to give an intelligent reason why you feel Governor Rick Perry is "stupid." You can feel all kinds of things about Perry, but we just can't appreciate what you feel if you don't give us more information.
I don't want to hear just crickets.
The border security that the people of Texas paid for with their tax dollars cost them $400 million. This was border security that should have been done by the federal government—the Obama Regime! As long as the federal government keeps neglecting their duty, states like Texas must take desperate measures to keep the growing legions of increased alien population from spinning into orbit.
I have to say that if any candidate—U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum—were governor of Texas with the pressures of the influx of illegals, you can be sure that they would have signed off on measures for the people of Texas that would have generated criticism from these same conservatives that attack Rick Perry now.
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