Thread: How Rick Perry created the "Texas JOBS Miracle"

How Rick Perry created the "Texas Miracle"

CBS
By Wyatt Andrews

VIDEO: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/ ... 1874.shtml

Perry now enters this race as both a Tea Party and evangelical conservative -- a man so religious he once asked Texans to pray for three days of rain. He will need to push the job issue to appeal to voters in the middle.

(CBS News)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is expected to join the GOP presidential race Saturday, is the longest serving governor in the nation. He won re-election last year by a wide margin. He's 61 years old, married to his childhood sweetheart, and graduated from Texas A&M.

Perry is going to have a big effect on this race. CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews looks at his record on the Texas economy.

It's his most important accomplishment and and one Texas-sized claim.

"Texas continues to lead the nation in job creation," Gov. Rick Perry once said.

Some call this the "Texas Miracle." But with Perry as governor, the state has added hundreds of thousands more jobs than any state by far. And in a country desperate for jobs, this issue -- and Perry's claim that he deserves the credit -- sets him apart.

"We're hiring, we can't hire people fast enough," said Jeff Brown of California-based EA video games. He said the company is adding 300 jobs in Austin, Texas, partly because of low costs, but also because of Perry's three trips to persuade EA to move.

"They've come to us specifically in the company," said Brown, "and said, 'What do you need tell us what you need,' and for the most part they follow through on it."

Perry calls his formula simple. "This isn't rocket science," he once said. "You keep the taxes relatively low, you have a regulatory climate that is fair."

But Perry also got lucky when high oil prices boosted energy-related jobs. His critics point to another figure: Texas' high unemployment rate at 8.2 percent is one point below the national rate that is daunting President Obama.

Perry's bedrock pledge to never raise taxes also had a reckoning this year, when his budget faced a $27-billion shortfall. With taxes not an option, Texas cut deeply into health care and so deeply into education, some 49,000 teachers are being laid off.

"Do you see a Texas miracle?" Andrews asked Rachel Zertuche, a veteran middle school teacher

"No, I see a Texas tragedy."

Zertuche called her layoff the cost of low taxes.

"Realize that your child will be in a classroom that will have a larger number of students," she said. "Your child will have less individual time with their teachers, so everything comes at a price."

Perry now enters this race as both a Tea Party and evangelical conservative -- a man so religious he once asked Texans to pray for three days of rain. He will need to push the job issue to appeal to voters in the middle.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/ ... 1874.shtml

Ok, it is clear that the CFR and Globalists are mounting their efforts behind Perry as insurance if Obama falls.

Why else would CBS give Perry such a big boost by announcing him as "Perry now enters this race as both a Tea Party and evangelical conservative"

as if CBS decides who is the Tea Party choice.

Red Alert! Red Alert!

Globalist traitor inbound.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Why else would CBS give Perry such a big boost by announcing him as "Perry now enters this race as both a Tea Party and evangelical conservative"

W

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PAYDIRT!

As I recall, this is EXACTLY how George W. Bush was profiled ELEVEN YEARS ago.

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Observation: Both Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have opted NOT to include themselves in the heat of the traditional Iowa Caucus.

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Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

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This is the message they want to become reality. They are doing the old ... life will imitate art... routine.

W

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On Saturday Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce whether or not he will run for president. Many now believe he will.

Perry is eager to separate himself from his predecessor in the Texas governor’s mansion, George W. Bush — who is unpopular with both tea party Republicans and the American electorate as a whole. But one area where Perry’s positions are virtually identical to Bush is immigration.

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.

When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workersâ€

Unemployment rate, Texas
www.google.com/publicdata
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
8.2% of the labor force - Seasonally Adjusted - Jun 2011

Most of the jobs are oil drilling in which Perry ok wildcatting on public lands so the big oil men can get more money.The big money is whats pushing him to run.Texas is just 1 point behind in the national rate and they call that good.Perry laid off 49,000 teachers and Texas ranks 49th in the U.S. in education.Most jobs is below minimum wage.Perry has put in place the right to work act so now unions are busted and employers are hireing cheaper labor workers such as illegals.His record in Texas is not that great dont know why they say it is just look at the results.But big money is doing it all over U.S.busting unions laying off teachers and controlling the money with no job growth.He that can get the people lower educated contols the money and jobs controls the people and country.