First of all Perry IS a conservative and second of all, he is the only one with any chance to beat Obama.
Cain is proving himself to be a likeable salesman, even with some good, but not well-formed conservative ideas, but no substance, nothing that would qualify him to be a president. Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck are more qualified, if you only look at the gift of gab, and that’s all that Cain has going for him.
Did you know that the way he turned Godfather’s Pizza around was by closing 20% of the restaurants and laying off some 400 people — some job creator!
Texas, under Perry, on the other hand created as many jobs as all the other 49 states put together.
If they were underperforming, why not? A business has a responsibility to maximize profits. If that means cutting deadwood, then he's acting in the best interest of the investors. Job creation is not.
That's true if your only counting jobs for criminal illegal aliens. For Texas citizens, under Perry the unemployment rate has doubled.
“Did you know that the way he turned Godfather’s Pizza around was by closing 20% of the restaurants and laying off some 400 people — some job creator!”
Sounds exactly like what we need for POTUS right now. We need a serious spending cutter! Someone to get in there and cut, cut, cut. I would imagine we could find 20% of our government to cut, and many, many gov’t. employees to lay off.
He is qualified. Thanks for making that so clear.
Eventually Rick’s JOBS record, in an era when JOBS are the issue, will begin to matter even in Northeast RINO country, and his energy plan is the pay off, now topped off with his ever popular FLAT tax proposal. Rick is seen bringing not one, but three winning tickets to the PAY window.
“Did you know that the way he turned Godfather’s Pizza around was by closing 20% of the restaurants and laying off some 400 people — some job creator!”
Maybe he can use this in his next debate, when he goes deer in the headlights and loses his train of thought.
“Texas, under Perry, on the other hand created as many jobs as all the other 49 states put together.”
This is his current “train has left the station” mantra.
My advice to you is to wait for OCT 26, which is when Perry’s econ plan comes out and talk positively about the plan...instead of attacking Cain with negative threads all the time.
You’re the bad owner of a dog that makes everybody hate the dog...and I like Perry. Basically, you are not helping Perry.
Two things:
1. That's how you turn around a struggling restaurant chain: close the under-performing units. Saves the jobs of the people working in the other 80%.
2. Isn't this exactly what you want to happen to the federal government? Get about 20% of it "disappeared"? Cain obviously is prepared to do it.
Yes, Cain turned around Godfather’s by getting rid of menu items that were not selling, and closing restaurants that over-saturated regional areas.
You ignored the fact the he turned 450 of the least profitable BK’s into the most profitable BK’s in the country.
Again, he did this by analyzing the menu, deciding which items were poor performers and cut them or lowered the price on some.
He’ll do the same with Government programs - instead of these 5% “across the board” cuts some candidates are talking about, Cain wants to analyze each government program and decide if it should be cut by 5%, 50%, or altogether.
That’s the type of thinking that will resonate with the public, not the same old tired “across the board” spending cuts.
Cain is a demonstrable success in various economic ventures.
The POTUS is basically the CEO of the US and the most successful CEO of the bunch is Herman Cain.
His 9-9-9 plan is a winner, and will create jobs and turn the economy around.
I haven’t heard any of these other candidates come up with anything other than the same old cronyism and none of them are pushing a flat tax, a fair tax or anything like 9-9-9
None of them want to do away with the IRS because their friends like Warren Buffet will be able to avoid paying 1 Billion in back taxes since 2002
Then Buffet comes out and says his Secretary pays more in taxes?
Buffet doesn’t appear to be paying any taxes, seeing how he owes 1 Billion in back taxes.
It seems everyone is paying more in taxes than Buffet.
No more RINO’s - No more capital cronyism. No more earmarks and political favors and 6 figure pensions for government workers that retire at age 55. It’s bankrupting our country and is unsustainable.
Cain is the only candidate that isn’t the typical politician who will not change a thing once he gets into the WH like these RINO’s.
“Did you know that the way he turned Godfather’s Pizza around was by closing 20% of the restaurants and laying off some 400 people — some job creator!”
No one goes into business to create jobs. The only reason anyone ever goes into business is to make money. And the only reason a businessman would ever hire somebody is if he helps him make MORE money. Until this simple truth is accepted and embraced (instead of vilified) there will never be job creation.
By cutting expenses and eliminating the non performing restaurants, he made the remaining ones healthy (saving lots of jobs), which allowed him to improve product and service and grow his business, make more money (and add more jobs).
Actually, I would be delighted if he could do the same thing to this bloated federal bureaucracy.
Honestly, they're all uninspiring, dismal prospects. Perry included.
Did you know that closing unprofitable stores was and is a good thing?
Why in the hell should anyone keep a red ledger operation open if there is no hope?
I’ve closed a few myself.
That’s life.
That was his job and that is the job of any CEO and CFO is to figure out what is salvageable and cut the dead weight so the ship can right itself.
If the alternative is closing 100% of the restaurants, what do you suggest?
That's how it gets done in the real world. It's the private sector where profits matter, where you can't print money out of thin air, you must compete to survive, where you can't tax your way to prosperity.
How many have been employed by Godfathers in the 20 years since he saved the company?
Oh, I get it--you believe it is much better to provide government bailouts to failing businesses.
One more time: The last thing we need is another tongue-tied Texan POTUS.
Perry's version of conservatism:
Supported Al Gore
Pushed TTC land grab and foreign operated TXDOT multi - million dollar taxpayer funded boondoggle
Pushed Gardasil as Big Brother over the objection ofTexas parents
Opposes E-Verify as a method to deter illegal immigrants from stealing jobs from Texans
Supported Guiliani for President in 2007-2008
Has wasted almost 400 million dollars in taxpayer funded pet programs to buy jobs under his ETF/TEF- actively engaging in corporate welfare and cronyism with few jobs to show for the subsidies.
Demonstrates preference to illegals over bonafide U.S. citizens via the Texas DREAM act- another 33 million of taxpayer dollars spent to date coddling illegals with tuition assistance.
If that's REAL conservatism, I want no part of it.
Did you know that the way he turned Godfather’s Pizza around was by closing 20% of the restaurants and laying off some 400 people — some job creator!
That’s exactly what he needs to do to the federal workforce and budget. What planet do you live on?
Perry like all other politicians do not create non-govt jobs. They can only create the policies that allow business to flourish. Cain does know how to create jobs and if he did cut back on some jobs to save Godfather Pizza why is that a bad thing? Something that Govt is unable to do. Cain has the intestinal fortitude and indeed leadership skills and can adapt to the presidency. Perry would do fine as president but the process now of getting him there is a little bit steeper.