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Posted on 11/19/2011 1:00:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....Rick Perry says he would consider pulling the United States out of the U.N. altogether.
....One of the loudest U.N. critics among the candidates is Perry, the Texas governor who has recently slipped in the polls. "I think it's time for us to have a very serious discussion about defunding the United Nations," he declared in October.
Romney, the former Massachusettsgovernor, in 2007 characterized U.N. failures as "simply astonishing" but has been more measured during the current campaign.
U.N. supporters say that when the candidates bash the world organization, they are simply playing to the most conservative Republicans: the primary voters and caucus-goers needed early in the electoral contest.
"My sense is that if any of them were to be elected president, they would quickly realize that the U.N. serves American interests," said PeterYeo, vice president for publicpolicy of the U.N. Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the world body's work.
"They would find a way to constructively work within the U.N. system," Yeo added.
Detractors say that the candidates are just being truthful.
"I wouldn't call it U.N. bashing; I'd call it U.N. realism," said Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. "I think the issue for the United States is what to do to make the U.N. more effective, and the answer to that has to lie in how it is funded."
....The U.S. assessment is the highest — 22 percent of the total U.N. operating budget. By comparison, China pays 3 percent.
In the 2010 budget year, the U.S. provided $7.7 billion to the U.N. for its regular budget, peacekeeping and other programs, up from $6.1 billion the previous year.
House Republicans recently introduced legislation to force the U.N. to adopt a voluntary funding system. The administration opposes it and it is unlikely to become law.
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It’s a Texas thing — and a joke as well as a reminder of our independent streak — one that has held Texas in good stead during this Obama recession.
At the Tea Party rally while Gov. Perry was fired up and talking about the over-reach of the Federal government, someone shouted out, “Secede.”
Perry: “There’s a lot of different scenarios. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
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But I see that the Dems want to make this a “racist Civil War declaration” — but the Dems do that, don’t they?
Morphing again HTRN?
The Vetoes of Rick Perry - As Texas governor, he broke records and earned conservative support.....In Texas, they called it the “Father’s Day Massacre.”....
Betting on Rick Perry - a winner in a GOP year, with no need in the world to win liberal approval ………..”IT WILL BE THE JOBS ISSUE—and Texas’s record in creating them—that will define Rick Perry’s presidential run. Since he became governor in 2001, the U.S. as a whole has had a net loss of private-sector jobs, while Texas—which has only 8 percent of the nation’s population—has had a net gain of 825,000 jobs.
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board, told me that if you look at the number of jobs created since the recession technically ended in June 2009, Texas has accounted for 48 percent of net new jobs created in the U.S.
Fisher also disparages claims that the jobs are all low-paying jobs at McDonald’s or Walmart, paying the minimum wage, or that they were primarily caused by the oil and natural gas boom. According to Tom Pauken of the Texas Work Force Commission, the annual median wage in Texas in 2010 for all occupations was $31,500 a year, only 7 percent below the national average. That difference is easily explained by the fact that Texas has a younger workforce than most states and a higher percentage of workers in lower-pay agriculture jobs near the border with Mexico. [ CW: Cost of living in Texas is lower than many other states; Texas has no state income tax; Texas is a right to work state.]
As for where the job growth has been, three sectors of the economy have grown faster than the energy sector, which alone added 40,500 net new jobs in 2010. Last year, Texas added 57,900 new jobs in trade, transportation, and utilities; a total of 53,400 jobs in professional and business services; and 44,900 net new jobs in the hospitality industry.
For each of the past seven years, CEOs polled by “Chief Executive” magazine have rated Texas first in the nation for economic development climate and job growth. What is the secret of Texas’s success? Rick Perry isn’t shy about his answer. “It’s all about four points,” he told me. “First, don’t spend all the money. Keep the taxes low and under control. Have regulations that are fair and predictable so business owners know what to expect from one quarter to the next. And reform the legal system so that frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers who are trying to create real wealth.”
If there is on issue which Perry has made a personal crusade, it is lawsuit reform. Working with the legislature, he has helped pass curbs on frivolous lawsuits, implemented a first-in-the-nation system under which loser pays all court costs in many lawsuits, and reformed medical malpractice law.
Dick Weekley, the co-founder of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, says Perry showed genuine political courage in resisting calls for watered-down reforms that wouldn’t have addressed the core problem. He recalls that in 2002 Perry vetoed a bill strongly supported by doctors that would have required them to prompt payment from health maintenance organizations. In the eyes of the tort reform advocates, the bill was a Trojan Horse compromise negotiated between doctors and trial lawyers. “There was a huge response from physicians [against the veto],” Kim Ross, the former top lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, said. TMA went so far as to endorse Tony Sanchez, Perry’s millionaire Democratic opponent in the 2002 election. “Perry sent a signal that he wanted real reform and would stand his ground,” Weekley told me. “Soon the medical lobbyists playing footsie with the trial lawyers were gone and the obstacles to real reform started falling.”………………..
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AND now the TMA is endorsing Gov. Rick Perry. They understand now what he was doing would HELP them.
...."The Texas Medical Association’s political action committee recently endorsed him for president, and its members are helping him raise money and make connections with medical groups in other states.".... source
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Typical of the Perry haters - they misconstrue facts with fanasy and buy MSM BS that's designed to pollute our Primaries with division. You take an off-hand remark that was designed to make a point and which cannot be construed as an intent in order to feed the lie (look it up and dig until you find the true words in context).
I'd hate to work with you - it's possible your personality might make you one of those who try to make others look bad so you look good - at least that's how you treat the candidates you aren't for....
For anyone who might be interested, Rep. Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1146, 1997-03-20, a bill to withdraw from the United Nations.
Good!
Another Texan.
UN bashing? Yawn. Same empty threats the GOP has been trotting out for quite some time. If the GOP is so committed to the UN’s elimination, why was no action taken when Dubya was in office and the GOP controlled the Congress? Answer - its a useful bloody shirt to wave in front of the primary election crowd.
Every politician does this. It's hardly unique to Perry. Newt did a commercial where he sat on couch in front of the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi and ranted against Global Warming. Can you make that OK?
Yes, they’re obviously trying to link it to the Civil War, which is a huge stretch.
If you mean it’s a non-issue in the sense it’s related to 1860s secession, then yes....I’d agree. However, it was brought up here because there seemed to be some contention if he ever suggested secession, which he clearly did.
I am sorry.
I thought you were talking about his address to the Tea Party rally.
I totally disagree. Perry will wipe the floor with this poser, Obama.
Thanks shield.
LOL.
I almost admire your persistence CW.
Doesn’t Rick ever give you a day off?
He never suggested any such thing.
It's just one of the many lies being perpetrated here on FR and swallowed by those who don't bother to check.
Just like the ones going around saying he has an "open borders policy" when he has just the opposite.
But the Tiny Hyenas say it every chance they get because they know a few poor slobs will just eat it right up without bothering to look into it.
No rest for the wicked.
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