Drill for oil on American land because we have abundant resources, and reduce Govt regulations on the Energy Sector...
Help me, and educate me here... ISN'T THIS -- WORD FOR WORD -- WHAT SARAH PALIN HAS BEEN SAYING FOR FOUR YEARS NOW??
By what stretch of the imagination is Rick Perry "Unveiling" a "Plan"???
You're giving Rick Perry kudos for repeating what Sarah Palin has been saying for years and years?
You think Gov. Perry is stealing Palin’s plan?
Get real.
You don’t expect him to think for himself do ya?
On Jobs: FactCheck: Texas has highest number of minimum wage workers
When Rick Perry thumped his chest over his job-creation record as governor, he left the bad parts out. Yes, employment has grown by more than 1 million since Perry took office in Texas. But a lot of those jobs are not well paid.
Perry said, “95% of all the jobs that we’ve created have been above minimum wage.” To support the claim, the Perry campaign provided federal statistics for Dec. 2010 showing only 5.3% of all jobs in Texas pay the minimum wage. But those figures represent all workers, not just the new jobs, for which data are unavailable. And that does not account for low-wage jobs that may be barely above the minimum wage. 51% of all Texas workers make less than $33,000 a year. Only 30% make more than $50,000 a year. Nationally, Texas ranked 34th in median household income from 2007 to 2009. About 9.5% of Texas hourly workers, excluding those who are paid salaries, earn the minimum wage or less, tying Mississippi for the highest percentage in the nation.
Source: AP FactCheck on 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA Sep 7, 2011
On Jobs: FactCheck: Jobs grew faster in TX under Perry’s predecessors
[We fact-checked this exchange from the debate]:
PERRY: Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, Mitt.
ROMNEY: Well, as a matter of fact, George Bush and his predecessor created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor.
PERRY: That’s not correct.
ROMNEY: Yes, that is correct.
THE FACTS: Romney was correct. Romney accurately stated that George W. Bush—even without his predecessor—saw jobs grow at a faster rate during his 1994-2000 years as governor than Perry has during his 11 years governing Texas. Employment grew by about 1.32 million during Bush’s six years in office. Employment during Perry’s years has grown about 1.2 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: AP FactCheck on 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA Sep 7, 2011
On Jobs: FactCheck: Texas job growth is strong, but pre-dated Perry
Perry says Texas accounted for 48% of jobs created after recession’s end, in an interview with Glenn Beck.
We recognize that job-gain boasts can overreach. An example: Perry’s 2009 claim that about 70% of the jobs created in the US from November 2007-0 were in Texas. That was based on statistics from the 14 states in which job gains outnumbered job losses, and disregarded any jobs created in the other 36 states.
Perry got his new figures from the Dallas Federal Reserve, who subtracted the number of Texas jobs in June 2009 (10,287,000) from the jobs as of April 2011 (10,524,000) and determining the 237,000 increase accounted for 48% of the 496,000 jobs gained nationally over that period.
However, the Texas economy has been roaring since 1990, long before Perry became governor, including phenomenal job growth.
The strength of the Texas economy, compared to many other states, isn’t in dispute. However, there are many ways to slice and dice employment statistics. Mark Perry’s statement Half True.
Source: FactCheck on 2011 Presidential primary by PolitiFact.com Jun 14, 2011
I think Hollywood the beauty of the beast of liberalism pretty much 'neutered' oilmen after the tv show Dallas of the 1980's... Sarah is the first person on the political stage since then that had the mind and spine to call for 'drill -baby- drill' and the lords and ladies of the Republican party hung their heads in shame and snorted all manner of vile utterances against her for NOT being their kind of candidate. I personally would like to see this bunch be forced to use horse and buggies. Guess what, Hollywood is bringing back Dallas come next October.... surprise, surprise, surprise!!!!
Sadly, we the American people are more concerned in acceptable images than protecting our land in freedom and liberty... And you watch, there will be this DEMAND and expectation that Sarah come and HELP another 'man' dreaming his dream to set up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.... There is nothing new under the sun.
Perry was the governor of an energy state, he knows what he is talking about, just as Palin was a governor of an energy state and knew what she was talking about.
I bet the governor of North Dakota would say the same thing and he didn't have to "get it from Palin". Palin's idea is not original to her. I would even bet when Palin and Perry and the governors of other energy rich states met they talked about this very thing.
Sarah who? Oh, the one that didn’t have the cajones to get in the game? Maybe she can make another Facebook post about it?
Perry has been pushing energy independence since he was elected in Texas in 2001.
Palin loved to demonize "big oil". We need to be embracing "big oil".
>> You’re giving Rick Perry kudos for repeating what Sarah Palin has been saying for years and years?
Rick is articulating a unique proposition. One that Sarah chose not to embrace.