Perry attacks administration at campaign stop in Hampton, N.H.

Fosters Daily Democrat ^ | October 2, 2011 | LARRY BROWN

[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."

[central_va]

Calling 18 year olds children is stupid.
Calling people against coddling illegal Mexican foreign nationals is stupid,
Giving speeches in front of LA Raza is stupid.
Calling yourself a conservative and backing Perry is stupid.

[Liz]

Perry looks nice. Too bad he’s stupid.

This Perry pic would make a great "Caption This."
A fun thing we do on FR. Now, let me take a crack at it.

CAPTION THIS

"This is my 'I'm Really Sincere Stare.' Always gets me
votes in Texas. No matter what comes out of my big mouth."

[Liz]

CAPTION THIS---how sincere can he get?

"It's time for the American people to be free from big government. Course, that
doesn't apply to illegals. Illegals need to be subsidized and coddled by big govt."

[trebb]

35 million more illegals?

Surely you give him too much credit. Of course, Texas is big - perhaps it ought to bea able to squash the Feds and force them to do their duty. Oh, wait, using perspective and thinking is outside your chosen paradigm - like any good liberal, facts don't matter to you unless they support what you WANT to believe.

[normy]

Bill Mahr? Is that you?

[caww]

what’s not to like about Perry?....consider following:

34 billion dollar budget deficit
•Texas Ranks #1 in population living below the poverty line ( 17.2 % ).
•Worst environmental record in the United States
•Ranks #1 in illiteracy
•Ranks # 1 on the poorest gun regulations in the US and highest per capita gun murder rates in the US
•Ranks #1 with the highest real estate taxes per $1,000 value of a home in the United States
•Ranks #1 in the lowest high school graduation rate
•Ranks #1 with the highest interest rates “pay day” companies can charge
•Ranks # 1 in those making below minimum wage
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in Teacher Pay
•Ranks # 1 (26.5%) who lack health insurance
•Ranks # 1 (20.3%) of children who lack health insurance
•Ranks # 1 in the highest per capita executions in the world
•Ranks # 50th in $ spent for Medicaid for the poor and children
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ spent on its citizens
•Ranks # 1 in the # of food insecure children.
•Ranks 49th ( the 2nd lowest ) in Medicaid $ given to nursing homes
•Ranks 2nd highest in teen births
•Ranks #2 with the highest home insurance rates
•Ranks #2 with the highest sales tax
•Ranks 49th in $ funded for the mentally ill
•Ranks #1 with the highest overall pollution rate
•Ranks #1 in adults under correctional control
•Ranks #1 in adults under probation

[caww]

Amnesty and other proposed fixes to the current illegal immigration problem can’t even be considered until the border fence is in place,... since a change in laws for a scheduled date could trigger a massive inflow of illegals like no other in history.

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[caww]

THINK OF THE FENCE YOU COULD BUILD FOR $400 MILLION, AND THE PEOPLE YOU COULD PUT TO WORK

[central_va]

Some of these things are positives:

•Ranks # 1 on the poorest gun regulations in the US
•Ranks # 1 in those making below minimum wage
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in Teacher Pay
•Ranks # 1 in the highest per capita executions in the world
•Ranks # 50th in $ spent for Medicaid for the poor and children
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ spent on its citizens
•Ranks #1 with the highest overall pollution rate
•Ranks #1 in adults under correctional control
•Ranks #1 in adults under probation

[caww]

Over 1 MILLION people were apprehended by U.S. agents trying to sneak into the country last year..... The Border Patrol estimates that they catch one in three..... That means 2 million illegal aliens were successful sneaking into our nation.

2 MILLIONillegal aliens per year! No nation of earth can sustain such an illegal influx.

[Tomato lover]

"and I will sign the executive order to wipe out as much of 'Obamacare' as possible." as much of

What parts? That is an ambiguous statement if I ever heard one. Sure not the way to get elected. No ambiguous words come out of Herman Cain's mouth, he's got my vote.

[jonrick46]

The fence will cost upwards of $4.5 billion, which would ignore the many way it could be defeated. There are 3 US Army bases located in the state of Texas: Fort Bliss, Fort Hood and Fort Sam Houston. Troops from these Army bases could be used on the border.