From the article:
"But here’s what Perry doesn’t say: “virtually all of them” were government jobs, Newman wrote: “Net job gains in Texas have come entirely from government hiring, which accounts for 115,000 new jobs over the past three years. The private sector in Texas shed about 40,000 jobs during that time."
I guess if you want to believe a poorly sourced article which cites “reports” that they don’t understand from left-wing think tanks, you can.
This is typical statistical cherry picking. The relevant period is the 11 years he has been governor. Moreover, the last three years has seen a relative collapse in private hiring everywhere as a result of the depression. So measuring from pre-depression levels to what we hope is the trough of the depression is hardly being straight-forward. A net gain in private sector jobs is significant because every other large state has produced net private sector losses on a mammoth scale. Factor in, also, that Obamalini has been doing everything he can to harm Texas economically (e.g. by crippling the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico).
The RP people have been out to smear Perry from the beinning. While Perry certainly has some negatives, his economic performance has been good when properly evaluated. Businesses want to move to Texas, which tells us a lot more than The New American.
Considering the net job growth in America has been a big, fat ZERO in the last 3 years... adding 40,000 new private sector jobs in just one state is pretty dang impressive.
You are comparing the job growth in Texas to a healthy, normal economy... which we are most patently *NOT* in at this time.
Why?