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Rasmussen: Rick Perry now up 11 points on GOP field

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I'd personally prefer someone who isn't out to give their campaign contributors as many jobs and contracts as possible. Someone who isn't going to borrow their way to low taxes and an increase in low paying jobs. Someone who doesn't only support individual freedoms that he agrees with and seeks to deny some of those freedoms to others (SSM) with a constitutional amendment. Someone who doesn't refuse to believe many scientific facts, whether about the environment and how certain corporate actions can negatively affect it or concerning evolution or the fact that one of his citizens was most likely executed in error because a fire marshal was wrong in his assessment of a house fire.

Not exactly sure who you are talking about because there a lot of people who could meet your definition although I will tell you this, regardless of who the Republicans nominate, any would be better than the incompetent we have in the WH right now.
 
Minimumwage is minimum wage. Not having health insurance is not having health insurance. Spending money, your tax dollars, is spending money, your tax dollars. Are you sure you have a clue?
Here's a example lets say a Texan makes $7.50 per hour and a Bostonian makes $17.50 per hour doing the same job. Now each one wants to buy a house, in Texas a average house cost $80,000.00 and in Boston the average house cost $350,000.00. Now the difference between Texas and Massachusetts is taxes and fees, which rapes the consumer at every step in Massachusetts.
 
Perry has promoted an atmosphere that creates jobs in TX and is a great ambassador for seeking companies to move to TX. Keep demonizing TX but all that does is destroy your credibility.

He didn't "create" that atmosphere. Many of the financial benefits that might encourage some companies to come to TX were already in place before Perry took office. And at least one of the things that brought business to TX was the natural resources under TX. All Perry has done is given jobs/contracts to companies who donate to his campaign.

His state and many local governments within it are in debt and that debt is growing faster than that US's debt. In fact, part of the problem is his refusal to raise taxes, which causes a problem with not enough money to pay for all of the government's obligations. How the heck is he going to budget the federal government if he can't even properly balance his state's budget without borrowing from others and/or accepting federal money?
 
Minimum wage jobs in TX according to BLS total 550,000 out of a 12 million labor force. What does BLS say the percentage of minimum wage jobs are in the country? How much do you think a teen should get for their first time job? Who are you or the govt. to tell private business what to pay its workers?

I never paid minimum wage to any of my hourly employees because the market wouldn't bear it. In fact I paid over $10 an hour in some areas just to compete. Do you understand competition and the affects on wages? Further do you understand that some states have a higher minimum wage than the national minimum wage, i.e. California? Doesn't seem that you have a clue.

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But how much of the Texas jobs record stems from Perry?

"The jockey in the horserace is very important, but which horse he gets on also matters," said economist Terry Clower, director of the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas.

Analysts credit a number of powerful economic factors as contributing to Texas' economic success. Among them: Rising oil and natural gas prices benefited resource-rich Texas; an infusion of Pentagon dollars into the state's large array of military installations and defense plants; booming trade from its Gulf ports to Mexico and China; the growth of public-sector jobs; a population boom; and a warm, sunny climate as old as Texas itself. All have contributed to the march of workers into the nation's second-largest state.

Pia Orrenius, a senior economist at the Dallas Fed, told PolitiFact-Texas, a fact-checking enterprise, that the Texas economy has been roaring since 1990. "Long before Rick Perry ... we were talking about the great Texas economy," she said.

Perry detractors also point out that many employees are low-wage immigrant workers from south of the border.

Nor does every Texan share in the state's good times. About a million Texans are out of work, and about a half-million, many of them young and undereducated, draw minimum wage or less.



Read more: Texas created lots of jobs; does Gov. Perry deserve the credit? - Nation Wires - MiamiHerald.com
 
Here's a example lets say a Texan makes $7.50 per hour and a Bostonian makes $17.50 per hour doing the same job. Now each one wants to buy a house, in Texas a average house cost $80,000.00 and in Boston the average house cost $350,000.00. Now the difference between Texas and Massachusetts is taxes and fees, which rapes the consumer at every step in Massachusetts.

Mississippi made the same argument to me once, however, as a non house buyer at the time, and minimum wage folks are ususally not house buyers, I did not find Mississippi cheap enough to make up for the low wage. We cannot dismiss the problems texas has. education, health care and other indicators are simply worse than elsewhere. Not to mention, they created mostly low wage jobs for immigrant workers.
 
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But how much of the Texas jobs record stems from Perry?

"The jockey in the horserace is very important, but which horse he gets on also matters," said economist Terry Clower, director of the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas.

Analysts credit a number of powerful economic factors as contributing to Texas' economic success. Among them: Rising oil and natural gas prices benefited resource-rich Texas; an infusion of Pentagon dollars into the state's large array of military installations and defense plants; booming trade from its Gulf ports to Mexico and China; the growth of public-sector jobs; a population boom; and a warm, sunny climate as old as Texas itself. All have contributed to the march of workers into the nation's second-largest state.

Pia Orrenius, a senior economist at the Dallas Fed, told PolitiFact-Texas, a fact-checking enterprise, that the Texas economy has been roaring since 1990. "Long before Rick Perry ... we were talking about the great Texas economy," she said.

Perry detractors also point out that many employees are low-wage immigrant workers from south of the border.

Nor does every Texan share in the state's good times. About a million Texans are out of work, and about a half-million, many of them young and undereducated, draw minimum wage or less.



Read more: Texas created lots of jobs; does Gov. Perry deserve the credit? - Nation Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Perry is governor and gets credit or blame, just like Obama. Fact remains the atmosphere in TX is well suited for business growth and that is happening here. Whether you like Perry or not is irrelevant, TX is creating jobs whereas Obama has a net job loss after 2 1/2 years in office. TX has more people working today than when Obama took office and Obama has less today than when he took office. That is reality and something liberals want to demonize. Job creation is what this country needs and "Your" President is incompetent.

Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2010
 
He didn't "create" that atmosphere. Many of the financial benefits that might encourage some companies to come to TX were already in place before Perry took office. And at least one of the things that brought business to TX was the natural resources under TX. All Perry has done is given jobs/contracts to companies who donate to his campaign.

His state and many local governments within it are in debt and that debt is growing faster than that US's debt. In fact, part of the problem is his refusal to raise taxes, which causes a problem with not enough money to pay for all of the government's obligations. How the heck is he going to budget the federal government if he can't even properly balance his state's budget without borrowing from others and/or accepting federal money?

Perry didn't screw it up, Obama did, Obamacare, regulations, threats of higher taxes, and demonization of profit generation.
 
Perry is governor and gets credit or blame, just like Obama. Fact remains the atmosphere in TX is well suited for business growth and that is happening here. Whether you like Perry or not is irrelevant, TX is creating jobs whereas Obama has a net job loss after 2 1/2 years in office. TX has more people working today than when Obama took office and Obama has less today than when he took office. That is reality and something liberals want to demonize. Job creation is what this country needs and "Your" President is incompetent.

Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2010

Sure, you can pay business to work there (spending tax dollars, your tax dollars). We can do that nationally as well, and use immigrant workers, if that is what you want. But you miss the point of what I linked. Perry does get all the credit for what is going on in Texas.
 
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This is not disputed. Why do you think this disputes what I'm saying?

I don't think you have a clue as to what you are even posting. Keep ignoring the numbers, who makes up those minimum wage jobs, and the labor force and job growth in TX
 
Perry didn't screw it up, Obama did, Obamacare, regulations, threats of higher taxes, and demonization of profit generation.

Aren't there a couple of Democrats in the Texas legislature you can blame too:lamo
 
Sure, you can pay business to work there. We can do that nationally as well, and use immigrant workers, if that is what you want. But you miss the point of what I linked. Perry does get all the credit for what is going on in Texas.

The benefits of having Business move to TX is being ignored in liberal states who are driving people out of the state with their high taxes. Keep doing that and then demonize TX for stealing businesses.
 
I don't think you have a clue as to what you are even posting. Keep ignoring the numbers, who makes up those minimum wage jobs, and the labor force and job growth in TX

In texas? Immigrant labor, for a large part. What is your point?
 
The benefits of having Business move to TX is being ignored in liberal states who are driving people out of the state with their high taxes. Keep doing that and then demonize TX for stealing businesses.

Again, Perry is big on corporate welfare, using your tax dollars to give business your money. :thumbs: Government is the answer!
 
In texas? Immigrant labor, for a large part. What is your point?

My point remains, TX is growing jobs, growing labor force, and growing population. Interesting that still liberals seem to believe that is a negative and thus the need to try and destroy anyone from TX. Given a choice between Perry and Obama, I will be voting for Perry.
 
No, the 2010 elections took care of that for me.

Oh so we have a fully republican State Government with high poverty, high uninsured, crappy education, etc and it is all Obama's fault:roll:
 
Again, Perry is big on corporate welfare, using your tax dollars to give business your money. :thumbs: Government is the answer!

Businesses moving to TX bring workers and thus new taxpayers. I am all for it. Any so called corporate welfare since TX doesn't have a state income tax adds to the taxpayers of the state and that outweighs whe you believe is a negative.
 
Oh so we have a fully republican State Government with high poverty, high uninsured, crappy education, etc and it is all Obama's fault:roll:

It has to be, as everything is. :coffeepap
 
Oh so we have a fully republican State Government with high poverty, high uninsured, crappy education, etc and it is all Obama's fault:roll:

And yet the labor force continues to grow as does the population. Apparently the people moving to TX haven't requested information from you.
 
Businesses moving to TX bring workers and thus new taxpayers. I am all for it. Any so called corporate welfare since TX doesn't have a state income tax adds to the taxpayers of the state and that outweighs whe you believe is a negative.

Again, immigrant workers, low wages, with poor education and health care and high property taxes. :lamo :lamo :lamo


You're easy to satisfy, as you just need it to be a republican spending your tax dollars. ;)
 
Here's a example lets say a Texan makes $7.50 per hour and a Bostonian makes $17.50 per hour doing the same job. Now each one wants to buy a house, in Texas a average house cost $80,000.00 and in Boston the average house cost $350,000.00. Now the difference between Texas and Massachusetts is taxes and fees, which rapes the consumer at every step in Massachusetts.

Your point re: cost of living is valid but that was an incredibly misleading example. Why are you comparing the average home cost MA's most expensive city to the average home cost in the whole state of Texas. Perhaps a better comparison would be Houston, with a median home cost of $224,000?

Actually, I don't know where your numbers come from, but they seem to be wildly inaccurate. The median home price in Texas is $174,000 versus about $300k in Massachusettes.

Regional Spotlight: Median Home Prices Rise in Massachusetts for Third Straight Month | RISMedia
Texas Home Prices and Home Values - Zillow Local Info
 
And yet the labor force continues to grow as does the population. Apparently the people moving to TX haven't requested information from you.

And the price of tea in China is?
 
It has to be, as everything is. :coffeepap

Obama is doing well enough on his own to discredit he economic policies

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 40% JAR and well over 50% disapproval ratings.
 
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