[count-your-change]

Interesting thing about those minimum wage jobs, the wages are being spent and businesses are being supported, taxes are being collected, and if held largely by teenagers, it provides training for a labor pool.

But NY is kinda far from Texas (probably not far enough for Texans)

[GailA]

If you break things down by counties you will find unemployment higher in the counties with the poorest education levels.

Memphis has a 12.1% unemployment rate..24% for youth. Which is higher than the state average.

Memphis has the worse schools in the state of TN. Along with very high property taxes, not as high as Cali or NY but still out of proportion to the rest of the state. Combine the 2 and you get higher unemployment numbers.

Business needs educated work force to operate them. When students graduating HS with A’s in math, need remedial math to begin Community College, you know something stinks like 3 day old unrefrigerated fish.

[kidd]

Remember that the bulk of the “stimulus” went to liberal areas.

Texas is making money off of natural gas.

The stimulus money will run out quickly. There are several decades worth of reserves.

[Texas Eagle]

Okay. Just so I understand Paul Krugman's point.

Bamboozle's 8.2% unemployment rate good.

Perry's 8.2% unemployment rate bad.

Bamboozle's 8.2% unemployment rate represents a "recovery".

Perry's 8.2% unemployment rate represents a "recession".

Yo, Paul, what do you suppose Texas's unemployment rate would be if Bamboozle had been Governor for the last 10 years?

What do you suppose America's unemployment rate would be if Perry was President for the last 3 years?