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Rasmussen: Rick Perry now up 11 points on GOP field

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What a pity English is your second language, otherwise, you wouldn't make such a fool of yourself confusing 550,000 mininum wage earners out of hourly paid workers where you're confusing hourly paid workers with all 12 million workers.

Tsk, tsk, Con.

I am not confusing it at all, Adam is, Hourly workers make up what percentage of the TX workforce. think about it and get back to me.
 
I don't see marriage defined or even mentioned in there, thanks for posting.
Marriage is a legally binding contract and is subject to U.S. law, which the Constitution demands equal protection for all.
 
Aw, bull****, you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about. Where was your outrage over the dot.com bubble bursting and the recession that Bush inherited. Facts always get in the way of liberals who continue to bet indoctrinated by a leftwing media.

Nothing to indicate Obama has destroyed the economy? Obama is incompetent, no leadership skills, and no management experience. Looking like a double dip.

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ 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.
You just can compare the dot com bubble with the housing bubble. The thing that really pulled the rug from the economy was the mortaged backed securities of the subprime loans that were subsequently fraudulently rated AAA during George Bush's watch. Thinking these were good, these securities found their way into communities, pensions, etc.
 
What are you guys going to say if the national economy continues to improve and the TX economy continues to decline? Whose fault will that be?

*If* this, if that...*if* doesn't cut it.

The bottom line - Any (thats right..any) Rep candidate will have an easy time showing why Obama's tax, spending, and regulatory policies are responsible for the sluggishness we find ourselves in right now. Perry just needs to make the most forceful argument in this regard and everything will fall in its place

Obama has truly ****ed things up royally and it won't be hard for any "R" candidate to point out how. And another thing... *blame Bush* bull**** won't work this time around
 
I am not confusing it at all, Adam is, Hourly workers make up what percentage of the TX workforce. think about it and get back to me.
How can Adam be confusing it when he's merely posting what the BLS claims?


Among hourly-paid workers in Texas, 550,000 had earnings at or below the prevailing Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (See chart 1.) Nearly 5.8 million workers were paid at hourly rates, representing 55.7 percent of all Texas wage and salary workers.[SUP]1[/SUP]. Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman noted that the number of Texans paid at or below the Federal minimum wage increased as the number of workers earning the exact Federal minimum wage rose, while the number of Texans paid below the minimum wage declined. Combined, these workers accounted for 9.5 percent of all hourly-paid workers in Texas.[SUP]2[/SUP]. (See chart 2 and table 1.)

Minimum Wage Workers in Texas - 2010


Seems you think the Liberal BLS is once again posting bias figures.

Here ya go, in case you lost it after the last time I gave it to you ... the BLS correction information ... g'head and tell the BLS they're confused.

Point of Contact for Complaints Concerning BLS Information Quality


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*If* this, if that...*if* doesn't cut it.

The bottom line - Any (thats right..any) Rep candidate will have an easy time showing why Obama's tax, spending, and regulatory policies are responsible for the sluggishness we find ourselves in right now. Perry just needs to make the most forceful argument in this regard and everything will fall in its place

Obama has truly ****ed things up royally and it won't be hard for any "R" candidate to point out how. And another thing... *blame Bush* bull**** won't work this time around

I'm blaming everyone in the government for the last several decades, if not longer, plus businesses that felt that they could convince people to buy stuff they shouldn't have been buying at lower rates for the state of our economy. It is not the sole fault of any one President or any other one person. It is a huge combination effort.

In fact, some of the fault even lies with the American people. We can't understand that we need to actually hold politicians responsible for their actions and stop allowing elections to be a choice between "a douche and a turd".
 
When does this economy become Obama's in your world.
How long does it take to recover from a huge housing bubble that the repubs allowed to build up? You tell me.
How long does it take to recover from the destruction of our banking system, which required a $700 billion TARP that was passed only by Dems in congress then signed by Bush while congressional repubs just played politics? You tell me.

This is NOT a normal recession.

Heck Bush took over a shallow and short recession in 2001 and he got his tax cuts in 2001, and got more tax cuts in 2003, and he still had a "jobless recovery" going in 2004, and that was a small one. The tax cuts never worked, which is why repub Greenspan still had rates at 1% fully 3 years after the shallow short recession of 01 ended. That was an enabler of the housing bubble which would not have blown up so big if Greenspan had pursued responsible monetary policy, instead of playing politics and trying to get Bush re-elected.

Why do I consider the past? The repubs have a track record of huge failure in managing the US economy and they show me no additional knowledge gained from the experience.

Obama has not done anything near as stupid as the repubs did last time at bat. I'll vote Obama again, probably. I heard Huntsman this morning, and he may have a light on. We'll see. The rest of the announced repub field does not have a clue. Bachmann and $2 gasoline, GIVE ME A BREAK! Rick Perry, yea, run the fool and see how bad he loses.


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Please explain to me why their are fewer people employed today than when Obama took office, more people unemployed today than when Obama took office. Why the GDP growth in 2011 is lower than it was in 2010 and why the cost of 4 trillion added to the debt created those numbers? Businesses aren't hiring and that is because Busineses cannot print money, there has to be demand for products and Obama scares the hell out of businesses and the consumer. The results are there for all to see, when you will look at the results and stop buying the rhetoric?

The nature of the economy has changed over the last 30 years. Robots and computers have reduced the need for much manual labor and some skilled jobs, due to productivity improvements. China and India entered the world economy 30 years ago (it was Reagan who opened trade relations with China), and they have 1/3 of the worlds population. We have an excess of labor in the world, and business is exploiting it and shipping jobs to India (call centers and IT, reading XRAYs, stock analysis, etc.), and manufacturing to China. That's not Bush nor Obama's fault, and it is infinitely harder to deal with than a normal 4 year business cycle recession we encountered in the decades following WWII. The solutions that worked in the past are not working, because the problem is different. Until we correctly diagnose the problem, solving it will not happen.

For anyone to earn my wholehearted support, that is what has to happen. Short of that, we are just voting for the guy who will screw up the least, and in recent history, that's the Dems. Not great, but not as bad as the repubs.
 
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*If* this, if that...*if* doesn't cut it.

The bottom line - Any (thats right..any) Rep candidate will have an easy time showing why Obama's tax, spending, and regulatory policies are responsible for the sluggishness we find ourselves in right now. Perry just needs to make the most forceful argument in this regard and everything will fall in its place

Obama has truly ****ed things up royally and it won't be hard for any "R" candidate to point out how. And another thing... *blame Bush* bull**** won't work this time around
Well now this is an interesting perspective ... first you blame Obama's tax policy (among others) for the sluggish economy we're dragging ourselves through ... then you say we cann't "blame Bush" this time around ...

... only problem with that (well, not only) ... is that Obama has kept us under the same tax policies Bush put in place back in 2003.
 
Well now this is an interesting perspective ... first you blame Obama's tax policy (among others) for the sluggish economy we're dragging ourselves through ... then you say we cann't "blame Bush" this time around ...

... only problem with that (well, not only) ... is that Obama has kept us under the same tax policies Bush put in place back in 2003.

And not only that, but Obama has retained Bush's Fed Chairman, who, people seem to forget, is a REPUBLICAN. In fact there are no liberals on the Fed board. The members range from moderate conservative to conservative.

This will start to get interesting if and/or when the Republican candidates ever get around to saying what they would actually do to improve the situation instead of just criticizing what Obama has done.
 
After spending 35 years in the business world I can honestly state that you don' tknow what you are talking about. How many Fortune 500 companies do you know that pay minimume wage and offer no benefits to their employees? The problem is not the large companies, the problem will always be the small companies that create most of the jobs and forcing up their costs puts them out of business and that is where the job losses come from.

You won't mind if I doubt you.

However, the problem is with both. Cheap labor means working for less, much less, and this is in part why illegal immingrants are allowed to come here, they work cheap. And as noted, immigrant labor is a significant part of Texas jobs.
 
You won't mind if I doubt you.

However, the problem is with both. Cheap labor means working for less, much less, and this is in part why illegal immingrants are allowed to come here, they work cheap. And as noted, immigrant labor is a significant part of Texas jobs.

Fact, the labor force in TX is growing, Fact, the population of TX is growing, Fact, businesses are moving to TX many of them Fortune 500 Companies. Fact, liberals don't like facts so rather than accept the facts, try to duplicate what is working, liberals demonize. What do you think is going to happen to high tax states around the country if liberals get their way and raise corporate taxes and personal income taxes on the rich? Think the state tax revenue is going to be the same? Do you ever think beyond the moment?
 
Fact, the labor force in TX is growing, Fact, the population of TX is growing, Fact, businesses are moving to TX many of them Fortune 500 Companies. Fact, liberals don't like facts so rather than accept the facts, try to duplicate what is working, liberals demonize. What do you think is going to happen to high tax states around the country if liberals get their way and raise corporate taxes and personal income taxes on the rich? Think the state tax revenue is going to be the same? Do you ever think beyond the moment?
And according to you, Rick Perry has nothing to do with it.
 
How long does it take to recover from a huge housing bubble that the repubs allowed to build up? You tell me.
How long does it take to recover from the destruction of our banking system, which required a $700 billion TARP that was passed only by Dems in congress then signed by Bush while congressional repubs just played politics? You tell me.

This is NOT a normal recession.

Heck Bush took over a shallow and short recession in 2001 and he got his tax cuts in 2001, and got more tax cuts in 2003, and he still had a "jobless recovery" going in 2004, and that was a small one. The tax cuts never worked, which is why repub Greenspan still had rates at 1% fully 3 years after the shallow short recession of 01 ended. That was an enabler of the housing bubble which would not have blown up so big if Greenspan had pursued responsible monetary policy, instead of playing politics and trying to get Bush re-elected.

Why do I consider the past? The repubs have a track record of huge failure in managing the US economy and they show me no additional knowledge gained from the experience.

Obama has not done anything near as stupid as the repubs did last time at bat. I'll vote Obama again, probably. I heard Huntsman this morning, and he may have a light on. We'll see. The rest of the announced repub field does not have a clue. Bachmann and $2 gasoline, GIVE ME A BREAK! Rick Perry, yea, run the fool and see how bad he loses.




The nature of the economy has changed over the last 30 years. Robots and computers have reduced the need for much manual labor and some skilled jobs, due to productivity improvements. China and India entered the world economy 30 years ago (it was Reagan who opened trade relations with China), and they have 1/3 of the worlds population. We have an excess of labor in the world, and business is exploiting it and shipping jobs to India (call centers and IT, reading XRAYs, stock analysis, etc.), and manufacturing to China. That's not Bush nor Obama's fault, and it is infinitely harder to deal with than a normal 4 year business cycle recession we encountered in the decades following WWII. The solutions that worked in the past are not working, because the problem is different. Until we correctly diagnose the problem, solving it will not happen.

For anyone to earn my wholehearted support, that is what has to happen. Short of that, we are just voting for the guy who will screw up the least, and in recent history, that's the Dems. Not great, but not as bad as the repubs.

When you have a blank check, total control of the Congress in overwhelming numbers it shouldn't take that long. Instead of stimulating the economy, Obama spent a trillion dollars bailing out union contracts and "saving" state jobs in union states.

You want to blame Bush for the housing bubble yet ignore it was Clinton that signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. You seem to want to ignore what Democrats wanted including Frank and Dodd, along with ACORN, Franklin Raines, Jaimie Gorelick when it came to housing. Instead you want to blame Bush and Republicans instead of sharing the blame with Democrats. It really is amazing what a short selective memory some have and how the crisis is only the responsibility of Bush.

I find it interesting that you continue to buy the media spin on the economy which came out of recession in June 2009, 5 months after Obama took office. Amazing how liberals call this the worst recession since the Great Depression forgetting, conveniently, that 1981-82 interest rates were 17.5+%, misery index was over 20, inflation was out of control, and unemployment reached 10.8%. There was a net job loss the first two years of that recession and yet Reagan ended up having a net job gain of 17 million jobs, doubling of GDP, doubling of govt. revenue, all because of the right stimulus, tax cuts to the American taxpayer.

So the question is who is responsible for growing the private sector economy, the govt. or the people? Answer is pretty simple, Obama isn't the lesser of the two, he is the worst of the two and his economic policy shows it. Rick Perry will be a better alternative than Obama. Never in modern history have we had as bad of economic results two years after the end of a recession like we have now with Obama. This is 2 1/2 years after taking office so how can anyone look at the results and claim Obama is the lesser of two evils? Only those not paying attention and buying the media spin can do that and you appear to be in that group.

I would suggest stop reading the media and get some facts, BEA.gov, BLS.gov, and the U.S. Treasury Dept. provide actual data and that is why I continue to post the Obama results for that is where the data comes form. How can anyone deny actual data? Liberals do it by diverting and then resorting to the politics of personal destruction.
 
You want to blame Bush for the housing bubble yet ignore it was Clinton that signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
You mean the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill?

Do you know why it was called the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? Do you know which party Gramm, Leach, and Bliley were members of? That you avoided referencing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act by name leads me to believe you do.
 
You mean the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill?

Do you know why it was called the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? Do you know which party Gramm, Leach, and Bliley were members of? That you avoided referencing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act by name leads me to believe you do.

Wonder who signed that bill?
 
You seem to want to ignore what Democrats wanted including Frank and Dodd, along with ACORN, Franklin Raines, Jaimie Gorelick when it came to housing. Instead you want to blame Bush and Republicans instead of sharing the blame with Democrats.
Who was in charge of the Congress in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, as the housing markets were ballooning to extreme levels? Where was the much needed oversight?

I suggest you learn about bills, S.190 and H.R.1461, both from 2005, and discover exactly who it was who prevented either of those bills from becoming law. I can tell you now, it wasn't Frank, Dodd, ACORN, Raines, or Gorelick.


Rick Perry will be a better alternative than Obama.
Pretty meaningless opinion coming from the guy who would vote for Reagan's costar Bonzo as long as he put an "R" after his name.
 
Wonder who signed that bill?
I have always blamed Clinton for signing that bill. I've yet to see you blaming Republicans for drafting and passing it though a Republican-led House and a Republican-led Senate.
 
I have always blamed Clinton for signing that bill. I've yet to see you blaming Republicans for drafting and passing it though a Republican-led House and a Republican-led Senate.

Just goes to show that it was a non partisan bill, something you don't seem to understand. Non Partisan isn't something in your vocabulary. Diversion and distortion are however a major part of the game you play. Anything to refuse to discuss the Obama record and why Perry would be a better alternative. "Your" empty suit, incompetent President 2 1/2 years after taking office is still fooling a lot of the sheep but fortunately not enough to get him re-elected in 2012. His record is there for all to see and any Republican including Perry would be a better alternative. The majority in this country know it, only the brainwashed will never get it.
 
I'm blaming everyone in the government for the last several decades, if not longer, plus businesses that felt that they could convince people to buy stuff they shouldn't have been buying at lower rates for the state of our economy. It is not the sole fault of any one President or any other one person. It is a huge combination effort.

In fact, some of the fault even lies with the American people. We can't understand that we need to actually hold politicians responsible for their actions and stop allowing elections to be a choice between "a douche and a turd".

Our federal and state governments, and their galaxy of agencies and departments, corporations, religion, etc., etc,..... It's all big business, and a huge percentage of the people in this country are making their living off of it.

Its bureaucracy, dude because thats the real evil here. Nothing if not self-perpetuating.

Whats your solution?
 
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Isn't it great watching the new Democrat slogan these days, "Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you." Wouldn't JFK be proud today? Don't we need that massive govt. nanny state that liberals want for the nation? Personal Responsibility? No way, we have to have the govt. providing for personal responsibility issues thus Rick Perry is a threat.
 
Signed by Bill Clinton
That doesn't make it a "non partisan" :lol: bill when it received only 1 vote by Congressional Democrats out of 251.

but again what does that have to do with the Obama record
I dunno, you brought it up. I suppose we'll just have to chuck this onto your heap pile of off-topic discussions that you complain about after you get slapped across the face with your own posts.

And I'm still waiting to hear you blame Republicans for destroying our economy after every single one of them voted for the "non partisan" Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill... You don't have it in you, do you?


and Perry being a better alternative?
Even you can't cite a single bill Perry signed into law which boosted to the Texas economy and he's your governor. :lol: That only proves to me that Perry is not a better alternative.
 
Probably one of the best descriptions of what this country is going to become with the liberal entitlement mentality today, high unemployment among our youth, and the expectations of those youth. What is going on in Europe is that utopia that Obama wants in this country and what has been rejected in TX overwhelmingly by the electorate. No wonder liberals demonize Perry and Texans.

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Probably one of the best descriptions of what this country is going to become with the liberal entitlement mentality today, high unemployment among our youth, and the expectations of those youth. What is going on in Europe is that utopia that Obama wants in this country and what has been rejected in TX overwhelmingly by the electorate. No wonder liberals demonize Perry and Texans.

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Quiz time, Con ...

Would that be "non partisan" or would that be "bipartisan?"


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