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Rasmussen: Rick Perry now up 11 points on GOP field

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Who makes up the minimum wage workforce in TX or do you care? I prefer someone with a job on their resume vs. sitting on their asses collecting over 2 years of unemployment. Shows initiative and drive. Job history was an important factor for me in hiring people.

I have little doubt that you greatly prefer all the minimum wage positions that your state can offer. Thank you for confirming that.
 
WOW!!! look at the wording of this question.(would you rather live in a state governed by someone like Rick Perry who believes in personal responsibility and your ability to choose what is in your best interest or a state governed by Barack Obama who believes it is the government's role to decide what is in your best interest?)

Been taking lessons from Fox and Rasmussen on loading questions have ya?

It depends if i had children and wanted them to have a decent public school education or not($billions in cuts to education funding).

If i were willing to work for minimum wage(highest percentage of minimum-wage workers in the nation )Texas would be the state to be in.:2wave:

Guess that is why many Fortune 500 companies are moving to TX to take advantage of the uneducated workforce here because of poor TX schools. Bet Rice, UT, Baylor, TX A&M, Texas Tech, Uof H, SMU, TCU grads would disagree with you. Shows just how much you know about TX. Interesting how you ignored the question and refused to answer it.

Why don't you find out who is making up the 550,000 minimum wage workers in TX out of a 12 million work force?
 
I have little doubt that you greatly prefer all the minimum wage positions that your state can offer. Thank you for confirming that.

Wonder how many the city of Detroit would like right now or the state of Michigan. 550,000 minimum wage workers in TX out of a 12 million labor force. What percentage is that haymarket and who makes up those 550,000? Just another example of something you know nothing about.
 
Suggest you do some research and then put that chart into context. Thanks

You're hoping that I can refute my own argument, because you obviously can't? :lol:

The truth is that, while unemployment has been falling in most states for the last two years, it has been rising in Texas.
 
The answer, before Obamacare, was (b), and I think that most Americans would say that's a better choice than (a). But it's hardly ideal.

This is what Conservative doesn't want to face. It isn't a choice between someone taking personal responsibility or suffering the consequences; it's a choice between someone taking personal responsibility OR THE REST OF US PAY THE CONSEQUENCES.

And, btw, it is this way because of Reagan's 1986 legislation that prohibited emergency rooms from turning away patients.

It is a state expense not a Federal Expense to pay ER services if the patient cannot pay. Obama says it is a Federal Expense, that is a lie to appeal to people like you who don't know any better.
 
You're hoping that I can refute my own argument, because you obviously can't? :lol:

The truth is that, while unemployment has been falling in most states for the last two years, it has been rising in Texas.

Just like a liberal, post a chart that they don't understand and ignore the charts that do. Employment in TX has grown. Percentage growth of the labor force is irrelevant comparison. TX is creating net jobs and Obama is losing them nationally. People are going to pay their higher taxes due to Obama and move more jobs to states without an income taxes further eroding the state revenues. Guess that is ok to a liberal who cares only about the liberal agenda.
 
Who makes up the minimum wage workforce in TX or do you care?
If you have anything you would like to add please do. But I'm not going to make your argument for you.


Shows initiative and drive. Job history was an important factor for me in hiring people.

Well isn't that nice.
 
If you have anything you would like to add please do. But I'm not going to make your argument for you.




Well isn't that nice.

No, I am laughing at the entertainment you, Adam, Donc, and haymarket are providing. Keep up with the basic one liner non responses.
 
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The Jode family managed to do it under similar circumstances before.:2wave:

Thanks for confirming to all with an open mind how negative liberals always are as you and others always look for the negatives on every issue. In your case 550,000 people making minimum wage is a negative where as with a Conservative it is the fact that many of these are first time workers that actually have a job in the Obama economy and that 550,000 people are working and not drawing taxpayer funded unemployment.

In your case TX has a high number of uninsured which you post as negative whereas I post that quite a few of those are rich people who can afford paying their own healthcare and the poor people having many choices of taxpayer funded healthcare in TX.

In your case TX has rising unemployment with is negative but in mine TX is creating jobs and has a net job gain. TX population is growing so fast with people moving here it is hard to keep up with that population growth. Of the 117,000 private sector jobs created in July TX created almost 30,000 of them and continues to grow jobs.

In your case the TX education system is broken yet there are great colleges in TX drawing in state students and there are Fortune 500 companies moving to the state creating more jobs and tax revenue for the state.

In your case evil rich people are demonized and should be forced to redistribute their wealth, in my world rich people chosing how to spend their own money stimulates economic growth, charitable giving and that grows the economy creating jobs for people

Your cup remains half empty and proves just how miserable liberals are.
 
Thanks for confirming to all with an open mind how negative liberals always are as you and others always look for the negatives on every issue. In your case 550,000 people making minimum wage is a negative where as with a Conservative it is the fact that many of these are first time workers that actually have a job in the Obama economy and that 550,000 people are working and not drawing taxpayer funded unemployment.

In your case TX has a high number of uninsured which you post as negative whereas I post that quite a few of those are rich people who can afford paying their own healthcare and the poor people having many choices of taxpayer funded healthcare in TX.

In your case TX has rising unemployment with is negative but in mine TX is creating jobs and has a net job gain. TX population is growing so fast with people moving here it is hard to keep up with that population growth. Of the 117,000 private sector jobs created in July TX created almost 30,000 of them and continues to grow jobs.

In your case the TX education system is broken yet there are great colleges in TX drawing in state students and there are Fortune 500 companies moving to the state creating more jobs and tax revenue for the state.

In your case evil rich people are demonized and should be forced to redistribute their wealth, in my world rich people chosing how to spend their own money stimulates economic growth, charitable giving and that grows the economy creating jobs for people

Your cup remains half empty and proves just how miserable liberals are.

Uhmmm did you ever read The Grapes of Wrath?
 
Just like a liberal, post a chart that they don't understand and ignore the charts that do. Employment in TX has grown. Percentage growth of the labor force is irrelevant comparison. TX is creating net jobs and Obama is losing them nationally. People are going to pay their higher taxes due to Obama and move more jobs to states without an income taxes further eroding the state revenues. Guess that is ok to a liberal who cares only about the liberal agenda.

What a ridiculous statement. If the state creates 1000 jobs and the population grows by 10,000, you have net negative employment, and that is what the graph shows. You have a habit of only looking at half of the equation.
 
What a ridiculous statement. If the state creates 1000 jobs and the population grows by 10,000, you have net negative employment, and that is what the graph shows. You have a habit of only looking at half of the equation.

But that isn't the case here, is it? TX is creating jobs and still has a lower unemployment rate than the nation

Have you ever been to TX? What makes you an expert on the cost of living here? Keep buying the liberal rhetoric and ignore the liberal results. I will take the TX results any day. Your tax dollars also aren't going to pay those people here on minimum wage. I love how people who obviously haven't run anything know what private business should pay their workers. What do you think an uneducated worker should make?
 
Just like a liberal, post a chart that they don't understand and ignore the charts that do. Employment in TX has grown. Percentage growth of the labor force is irrelevant comparison. TX is creating net jobs and Obama is losing them nationally. People are going to pay their higher taxes due to Obama and move more jobs to states without an income taxes further eroding the state revenues. Guess that is ok to a liberal who cares only about the liberal agenda.

Hhmm...
Employment in TX has grown
Has it???:shock:

Over-the-Year Change in Unemployment Rates for States

Monthly Rankings

Seasonally Adjusted

TEXAS

July 2010
8.1

July 2011p
8.4


Change
0.3



Over-the-Year Change in Unemployment Rates for States
 
Texas adds 732,800 jobs in 10 years; no other state tops 100,000 - The Business Journals

Texas added 732k jobs in the last 10 years and 251k last year.

Whether you think they are growing because of their jobs picture or not is opinion. The fact remains they are tops in job creation and tops in population growth. Is there a correlation between the two? Its possible. Its also possibly why the unemployment numbers in the state remain high while they create so many jobs, they have a lot of job seekers. Draw your own conclusions, but to say the state isnt doing some things right is folly.
 
Texas adds 732,800 jobs in 10 years; no other state tops 100,000 - The Business Journals

Texas added 732k jobs in the last 10 years and 251k last year.

Whether you think they are growing because of their jobs picture or not is opinion. The fact remains they are tops in job creation and tops in population growth. Is there a correlation between the two? Its possible. Its also possibly why the unemployment numbers in the state remain high while they create so many jobs, they have a lot of job seekers. Draw your own conclusions, but to say the state isnt doing some things right is folly.

To say that it's folly makes no sense when their unemployment rate is rising while the unemployment rate in most other states is falling.
 
Wonder how many the city of Detroit would like right now or the state of Michigan. 550,000 minimum wage workers in TX out of a 12 million labor force. What percentage is that haymarket and who makes up those 550,000? Just another example of something you know nothing about.

What you seem incapable of is doing simple math. I challenge you to do the math that you seem to avoid in favor of vague and general statements.

1- Take the minimum wage and multiply it by forty hours. (I know I am being generous here in your favor but lets do that anyway wallowing in the belief that there is full time work available. Now multiply that times 52. So what figure do you then get?

2- Now deduct the expenses that people incur in actually working like transportation, clothing for the job, and other things and tell me how much is left.

3- Now go the federal statistics giving us the levels for poverty and compare those two numbers. Pay special attention to what it takes to support a family of two or three or four or five people.

4- What do you discover in comparing those numbers Conservative?
 
A double-digit lead. But Ryan and/or Christie and/or Palin and/or The Donald may jump in too. This is an exciting election cycle.

The one that has done the least will be the nominee. I would think Donald has it all tied up.
 
Rick Perry And Texas Job Numbers « Political Math

Texas :
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United States :
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If this were true, all these new low-paying jobs should be dragging down the wages data, right? But if we look at the wages data since the beginning of the recession (click to enlarge, states are listed alphabetically)

Wage growth in Texas versus other states:
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And it turns out that the opposite is true. Since the recession started hourly wages in Texas have increased at a 6th fastest pace in the nation.


In all its a decent article and deserves some attention.
 
With an unemployment rate of 8.4%, Texas ranks 27th in the nation. Unemployment Rates for States

"August 20, 2011 | 11:06 a.m.



Gov. Rick Perry — touting the state's job growth on the campaign trail — got some bad news on Friday morning: The state's unemployment rate is the worst in nearly a quarter century.


Texas added nearly 30,000 jobs during the month of July — the 10th month running that the state has experienced positive job growth. But despite that private-sector growth, the state's unemployment rate rose slightly in the same time period, from 8.2 percent to 8.4 percent, hovering just under the national unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. Meanwhile, government jobs fell by 9,400 in July, the result, at least in part, of sweeping state budget cuts."

Despite Job Growth, Texas Unemployment Rate Worst in Decades - Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune - NationalJournal.com

Unemployment has fallen in most states since 2009 ... but it is still rising in Texas....

Texas has created 125,000 GOVERNMENT jobs since the downturn: nearly half of all the GOVERNMENT-CREATED jobs during this time period.

CHART OF THE DAY: *Government* Jobs Led To Perry's Economic Boom | TPMDC
 
Texas adds 732,800 jobs in 10 years; no other state tops 100,000 - The Business Journals

Texas added 732k jobs in the last 10 years and 251k last year.

Whether you think they are growing because of their jobs picture or not is opinion. The fact remains they are tops in job creation and tops in population growth. Is there a correlation between the two? Its possible. Its also possibly why the unemployment numbers in the state remain high while they create so many jobs, they have a lot of job seekers. Draw your own conclusions, but to say the state isnt doing some things right is folly.

Let the idiots demonize TX, makes them feel good and after 2 1/2 years of Obama they need something to feel good about because the record is a disaster.
 
Let the idiots demonize TX, makes them feel good and after 2 1/2 years of Obama they need something to feel good about because the record is a disaster.

Actually I'm embarrassed that my State the State I grew up in is dead last in education and is leading the nation in poverty.

My State can do better than dead last!
 
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