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Rasmussen: Rick Perry now up 11 points on GOP field

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Baby boomers retiring isn't about discouraged workers, it's about the size of the workforce. You were complaining that the workforce under Obama has shrunk and retiring baby boomers is the main reason why. This has been brought to your attention before, it's not new inofrmation.

Bull****, the retiring babyboomers aren't the problem for the labor force, it is about Obama economy not creating enough jobs. We are seeing over 400,000 per month seeking first time unemployment benefits and that has been going on for months. that isn't a declining labor force that is a failure of an economic policy to stimulate job creation. When the SC rules against Obamacare and a Republican wins the WH that will change.
 
I didn't say the full $12 billion was counted in the budget. Try to read what you're responding to before you post.

That won't happen again, vote for Obama and stay out of TX
 
This post is exactly why it is a waste of time to respond to you, I didn't bring up Bush, you did and every other liberal here does when they want to divert from the Obama record or even the thread topic. Bye

Has there been a net job gain since Obama took office?

You're bring up bush* again

Are there more jobs available today than when he took office?

You're bring up bush* again

Is the misery index today the same or lower than it was when he took office?

You're bring up bush* again

Has he halved the deficit like he promised by the end of his first term as promised?

You're bring up bush* again

Is the unemployment rate after the stimulus spending 8% or less?

You're bring up bush* again

Are the number of discouraged workers less than when he took office?

You're bring up bush* again
 
Wow, a real gotcha moment, proud of yourself? Perry doesn't have an unemployment problem, he has a growing state, growing tax revenue, growing jobs that are making Obama's numbers better. Last I checked 8.4% is less than 9.1% unemployment and a net job gain is better than a net job loss. Tell the 3 million less employed today how great Obama is.

RIsing unemployment? No problem!!! :roll:
 
The plant in Carolina is a NEW Plant, that isn't luring business from one state to another.

Luring business from one state to another won't happen with a relaxing of regulations,elimination of Obamacare, and assuring businesses that their taxes aren't going up. What you forget is that businesses are going to pay the federal taxes but are going to move to states with lower state taxes to offset it. TX isn't the only one.

Wherever it locates, a certain # of jobs will be created there. Texas isn't creating those jobs, Boeing is
 
Your probably right, but how many government employees do the blue states have compared to the red, you need to do some comparisons.

A large part of the job growth in Texas was in public jobs, that was funded with $17.4 billion dollars in Federal stimulus money.
 
Perry doesn't have an unemployment problem
He doesn't? He has a growing unemployment rate which is currently higher than it's been for the last 25 years. That's not an unemployment problem??
 
Baby boomers retiring isn't about discouraged workers, it's about the size of the workforce. You were complaining that the workforce under Obama has shrunk and retiring baby boomers is the main reason why. This has been brought to your attention before, it's not new inofrmation.

Bull****, the retiring babyboomers aren't the problem for the labor force, it is about Obama economy not creating enough jobs.
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Labor force participation has fallen to the lowest level since 1984, largely because older people are leaving the worker ranks, Matus said today in a radio interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene. If participation remains this low, employers need to create fewer jobs to reduce the unemployment rate, currently at 9 percent.

Aging Baby Boomers Reduce Jobless Rate, Matus Says - Businessweek
 
A large part of the job growth in Texas was in public jobs, that was funded with $17.4 billion dollars in Federal stimulus money.

Wow, now it is up to 17.4 billion in stimulus money, first 6 billion, then 12 billion and now 17.4. You liberals need to get together and make up your minds.
 
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Labor force participation has fallen to the lowest level since 1984, largely because older people are leaving the worker ranks, Matus said today in a radio interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene. If participation remains this low, employers need to create fewer jobs to reduce the unemployment rate, currently at 9 percent.

Aging Baby Boomers Reduce Jobless Rate, Matus Says - Businessweek

let's see, Perry net job increase, Obama net job lossses! Hmmm, Perry, balanced budget, Obama 4 trillion added to the debt and credit downgrade.
 
Wherever it locates, a certain # of jobs will be created there. Texas isn't creating those jobs, Boeing is

They aren't being taken from Washington State and that is the point. New jobs for South Carolina that Obama doesn't want because they aren't union jobs. That means less contributions to the Obama campaign
 
Wow, now it is up to 17.4 billion in stimulus money, first 6 billion, then 12 billion and now 17.4. You liberals need to get together and make up your minds.

"Through the second quarter of this year, Texas has used $17.4 billion in federal stimulus money — including $8 billion of the one-time dollars to fund state expenses that recur over and over. In fact, Texas used the federal stimulus to balance its last two budgets."
Perry and the Stimulus: It's Complicated — 2012 Presidential Election | The Texas Tribune

Glad I could help clear up your confusion! :sun
 
Just an example of that liberal education brilliance. This coupled with either Romney's or Perry's executive experience doesn't bode well for Obama's re-election and rightly so

Obama: The Flake
Is this the best you've got, Con? Do you realize Chris Wallace was asking Michelle Bachmann if she was a flake? :lamo
 
let's see, Perry net job increase, Obama net job lossses! Hmmm, Perry, balanced budget, Obama 4 trillion added to the debt and credit downgrade.
What? No apology for calling my post "bull****" even though I backed it up, proving it's not bull****?
 
14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President

#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion.

#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932.

#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?

#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system.

#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.

#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.

#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.

#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.

#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation.

#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.

#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.

#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.

#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.

#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade.

For more detail, see the link above.
 
Is this the best you've got, Con? Do you realize Chris Wallace was asking Michelle Bachmann if she was a flake? :lamo
Sadly for them, that is the best they can do. Never mind that the term "bushism" was coined because Bush gaffed 40 times for every one of Obama's. Never mind that you can buy a calendar with a different Bush flub for every day of the year in it. But hey, Obama said "57 states!!"

:roll:

If nothing else, it's a reflection of just how desperate they are after having to defend Bush's massive gaffes for 8 years.
 
So now it's Congress' fault, not the presidents? :lamo

Abandoning your claim that it's the presidents fault is a sure sign that even you know how ridiculous the claim is
Whatever suits...
 
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