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Posted on 11/19/2011 8:23:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
He also criticized the president for delaying a decision on the 1,700-mile pipeline from Alberta to Texas until after the 2012 election so a study can be carried out with respect to its impact on an environmentally sensitive area of Nebraska.
“That Canadian oil is going to go one of two ways,” said Perry. “It’s either going to go west to China or it’s going to go south to the United States. That’s not even a question about where that ought to be going. Our national security is in jeopardy with this president.”.......... Perry Pledges to Take Only Half Salary
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Uproot and Overhaul Washington
The Perry Plan: Energizing American Jobs and Security
The Perry Economic Plan: Cut, Balance and Grow
Texas, Austin exception to gloomy retail picture [along with other good links]
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
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Nov. 13, 2011: “Pelosi fires back at ‘60 Minutes’ report on ‘soft corruption’”
“Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008, according to CBS. They bought 5,000 shares at the initial price of $44; two days later, shares were trading at $64, CBS said.”.......... Source
WWW.RICKPERRY.ORG
November 16, 2011
Dear Leader Pelosi,
After reading about House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s outburst over my “Overhauling Washington” plan, I wonder if his obstructionism reflects your own opposition and that of the Democratic Caucus to urgent reforms the American people so vehemently demand.
After increasing the debt by $4 trillion in less than three years, no one can believe that Americans are satisfied with business as usual, and that a permanent political class in Washington can get us out of the mess you and your colleagues have created.
A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family. Do you truly oppose lawmakers spending more time in their districts? Is it so important for the Washington power brokers to build their fiefdoms of influence, including providing bailouts to Wall Street while businesses on Main Street are being boarded up every day?
Here is the fundamental question: do you believe Washington is broken? Before answering that question, consider these facts:
1) the Washington Metro area is now the most affluent metropolitan area in the country because lobbyists, contractors, elected officials and bureaucrats have been insulated from the economic ruin prevalent in the private sector;
2) Congressional office budgets have doubled since 2000 while employers all across America are laying off workers;
3) Our nation’s total debt is nearing the size of our nation’s economy, increasing our dependence on competitors like China;
4) The number of Americans out of work has increased by more than two million since January 2009, despite the massive stimulus package Democratic leaders promised would revive the economy, and;
5) on top of the job-killing spending policies of the previous Congress, employers are faced with a staggering $1.1 trillion in costs related to federal regulatory compliance.
Do you truly believe the answer to massive debt, over-regulation and bloated big-government policies is to continue to protect the status quo, which enriches and empowers Washington insiders at the expense of the American People?
My plan would overhaul Washington, eliminating certain agencies and reducing the size and scope of others. It will force Congress to make the tough decisions to balance the budget or require a further reduction in their pay. It would end lifetime appointments to future appointees to the federal bench. I don’t want to tinker around the edges when the American People demand a complete overhaul of Washington.
Let me conclude with an invitation: I am in Washington Monday and would love to engage you in a public debate about my Overhaul Washington plan versus the congressional status quo. I think it would be a tremendous service to the American public to see a public airing of these differences. Let the people decide. If Monday doesn’t work, perhaps we could find a time in Iowa over the course of the next month to discuss these issues in front of the people of America’s heartland.
Should you choose not to respond or engage in such a healthy discussion, I will take it to mean you will continue your obstructionist ways in the face of much needed Washington reform.
Sincerely,
Rick Perry
Governor of Texas
The fact is that Obama’s decision to vote present on the pipeline is going to do nothing but hurt the American public. It’s not going to hurt the oil industry and it is not going to stop the shale oil drilling.
The oil companies have already announced the decision to reverse a pipeline from OK to Texas. There is already a glut of oil in the midwest from the Dakotas and so, the oil companies are reversing a pipeline and bringing that oil into Texas to refine and ship out. The Canadians will simply build their pipeline to the west coast and sell the oil to China.
Obama hurts America by making sure that we remain dependent on M.E. oil and helps the Chinese.
I think the political calculation was pretty simple here for dems: It’s easier to buy off the union goon leaders than the greenies. The High Holy Religion of Environmentalism is the only thing the left holds sacred. As for the best interests of the country, that doesn’t enter into the equation.
200,000 + jobs flushed.
This posting contains wisdom and ideas that are completely relevant to the current American dilemma. It deserves great discussion and ideas. To use it to promote an American political candidate and criticize Congressional idiot, are much less than it deserves.
It’s a twofer for the Left, weaken the U.S., strengthen our enemies.
I’ve heard as many as 400,000 jobs.
Part of Obama’s plan for America is to move the center of trade away from the Mississippi river to the west coast. That’s what all the push for new trains is all about. Obama wants to kill off the economy of the fly over red states and move everything to the coasts, mostly the west coast, over the multi-modal traffic corridors, through the roadless wilderness areas to the urban Gateway ports on the west coast.
He has even promised farmers in western states that he would re-open land to farming, as long as the farmers agreed to ship the grain and soy beans to China through ILWU controlled ports.
That’s the reason that the Obama administration reduced the dredging on the Mississippi last year, by two feet, making the flooding much worse than it would have been.
Perry wants to CUT regulations and stop the litigation and over taxation. Not let environmentalists and "Occupy" anarchists rule.
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
The oil companies have already announced the decision to reverse a pipeline from OK to Texas. There is already a glut of oil in the midwest from the Dakotas and so, the oil companies are reversing a pipeline and bringing that oil into Texas to refine and ship out. The Canadians will simply build their pipeline to the west coast and sell the oil to China.
Obama hurts America by making sure that we remain dependent on Middle East oil and helps the Chinese."
President Obama and his Sec. of the Interior, Ken Salazar should be IMPEACHED and removed from office and charged with TREASON by permitting the US to become more dependent upon Middle East Oil and providing more Oil to the Chinese.
Mean while, China is drilling off the Florida coast. We aren’t allowed to drill..........why????????
That’s a lot of good information. Pings my memory about rail lines being drawn through sections of California that didn’t make sense but now perhaps does.
The U.S. has been told they'll get permission to CLEAN UP any spills that other countries cause in those waters off the U.S.!!!
Rick Perry: “Having a strong economy so that we have the economic ability to have an impactful foreign policy.
We must be able to keep up with our research and -development capabilities in the military.
And our very important foreign policy position must be that our friends know we’ll be there for them, whether it’s Israel in the Middle East or Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, or India in the sphere of influence where China is located.”
Perry Doctrine: "We Stand with our Allies"
Charles Krauthammer was devastating in his criticism of Obama for this decision--along with other bad decisions made purely out of political calculations.
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