Gov. Perry on Texas recipe for success.

Joeslogic · Nov 14, 2010

This interviewer tried to make an accusatory point about the state of Texas taking stimulus money. It's amazing to me the Liberals think that the money they took out on loan that Texans will ultimately pay for, is the property of Democrat Liberals.

Also notice Perry says what I have always said Bush was about liberal big government program spending.

Also notice how the market foreseeing the Republicans taking congress has been optimistic.

"IF" news comes out about where the tax structure is going and that there will not be a big increase on business taxes as well as capital gains tax on investment. "Then" we will start to see a real turnaround in the economy.

Something the Liberals will be quick to credit Obama with just like Clinton was credited with the Republicans turning the economy around post 94.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/13/gov_perry_on_closing_state_budget_gaps.html

Lomotil · Nov 15, 2010

Do you think Perry is laying a foundation for a presidential nomination?

Honestly, I'd say he's got the presence and charisma, not to mention the track record, to be a contender in 2012...

Joeslogic · Nov 15, 2010

Yeah I just do not know he is good either says exactly what I'm thinking and wishing he would say because he really believes it. Or he is a damn good politician.

I think he believes it. Like you said he has a track record.

How about that New Jersey gov. Chris Christie? He is so damn cool.

Haha! Here the teachers union goes again with a different angle trying to attack Christie using political correctness. "Stop Attacking us its not good for the kids" He comes right back at the morons just as hard. You gotta read it.

BullGod666 · Nov 19, 2010

Lomotil said: ↑

Do you think Perry is laying a foundation for a presidential nomination?

Honestly, I'd say he's got the presence and charisma, not to mention the track record, to be a contender in 2012...
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Better him than that dipshit Palin. Obama will win if he goes against that foolish fuck.

Joeslogic · Nov 19, 2010

For all the hate spewing against Palin it is a bit ironic that most of it comes from the people who worship at the feet of Obama even though her resume of experience is twice that as his. She has a lot more real world accomplishments.

But anywho back to Perry and speaking of blue state vs red state.

http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2010/11/15/california-suggests-suicide-texas-asks-can-i-lend-you-a-knife/

California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife?

In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the state unemployed and many others looking for the exits.

California has drifted far away from the place that John Gunther described in 1946 as â€œthe most spectacular and most diversified American state â€¦ so ripe, golden.â€ Instead of a role model, California has become a cautionary tale of mismanagement of what by all rights should be the countryâ€™s most prosperous big state. Its poverty rate is at least two points above the national average; its unemployment rate nearly three points above the national average. On Friday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced yet again to call an emergency session in order to deal with the stateâ€™s enormous budget problems.

This state of crisis is likely to become the norm for the Golden State. In contrast to other hard-hit states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada, which all opted for pro-business, fiscally responsible candidates, California voters decisively handed virtually total power to a motley coalition of Democratic-machine politicians, public employee unions, green activists and rent-seeking special interests.

In the new year, the once and again Gov. Jerry Brown, who has some conservative fiscal instincts, will be hard-pressed to convince Democratic legislators who get much of their funding from public-sector unions to trim spending. Perhaps more troubling, Brownâ€™s own extremism on climate change policyâ€“backed by rent-seeking Silicon Valley investors with big bets on renewable fuelsâ€“virtually assures a further tightening of a regulatory regime that will slow an economic recovery in every industry from manufacturing and agriculture to home-building.

Texasâ€™ trajectory, however, looks quite the opposite. California was recently ranked by Chief Executive magazine as having the worst business climate in the nation, while Texasâ€™ was considered the best. Both Democrats and Republicans in the Lone State State generally embrace the gospel of economic growth and limited public sector expenditure. The defeated Democratic candidate for governor, the brainy former Houston Mayor Bill White, enjoyed robust business support and was widely considered more competent than the easily re-elected incumbent Rick Perry, who sometimes sounds more like a neo-Confederate crank than a serious leader.

To be sure, Texas has its problems: a growing budget deficit, the need to expand infrastructure to service its rapid population growth and the presence of a large contingent of undereducated and uninsured poor people. But even conceding these problems, the growing chasm between the two megastates is evident in the economic and demographic numbers. Over the past decade nearly 1.5 million more people left California than stayed; only New York State lost more. In contrast, Texas gained over 800,000 new migrants. In California, foreign immigrationâ€“the one bright spot in its demographyâ€“has slowed, while that to Texas has increased markedly over the decade.

A vast difference in economic performance is driving the demographic shifts. Since 1998, Californiaâ€™s economy has not produced a single new net job, notes economist John Husing. Public employment has swelled, but private jobs have declined. Critically, as Texas grew its middle-income jobs by 16%, one of the highest rates in the nation, California, at 2.1% growth, ranked near the bottom. In the year ending September, Texas accounted for roughly half of all the new jobs created in the country.

Even more revealing is Californiaâ€™s diminishing preeminence in high-tech and science-based (or STEMâ€“Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) jobs. Over the past decade Californiaâ€™s supposed bulwark grew a mere 2%â€“less than half the national rate. In contrast, Texasâ€™ tech-related employment surged 14%. Since 2002 the Lone Star state added 80,000 STEM jobs; California, a mere 17,000.

Of course, California still possesses the nationâ€™s largest concentrations of tech (Silicon Valley), entertainment (Hollywood) and trade (Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach). But these are all now declining. Silicon Valleyâ€™s Google era has produced lots of opportunities for investors and software mavens concentrated in affluent areas around Palo Alto, but virtually no new net jobs overall. Empty buildings and abandoned factories dot the Valleyâ€™s onetime industrial heartland around San Jose. Many of the Valleyâ€™s tech companies are expanding outside the state, largely to more business-friendly and affordable places like Salt Lake City, the Research Triangle region of North Carolina and Austin.

Hollywood too is shifting frames, with more and more film production going to Michigan, New Mexico, New York and other states. In 2002, 82% of all film production took place in Californiaâ€“now itâ€™s down to roughly 30%. And plans by Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the film industry, to double permit fees for film, television and commercial productions certainly wonâ€™t help.

International trade, the third linchpin of the California economy, is also under assault. Tough environmental regulations and the anticipated widening in 2014 of the Panama Canal are emboldening competitors, particularly across the entire southern tier of the country, most notably in Houston. Mobile, Ala., Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., also have big plans to lure high-paid blue collar jobs away from Californiaâ€™s ports.

Most worrisome of all, these telltale signs palpable economic decline seem to escape most of the stateâ€™s top leaders. The newly minted Lieutenant Governor, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, insists â€œthereâ€™s nothing wrong with Californiaâ€ and claims other states â€œwould love to have the problems of California.â€

But itâ€™s not only the flaky Newsom who is out of sync with reality. Jerry Brown, a far savvier politician, maintains â€œgreen jobs,â€ up to 500,000 of them, will turn the state around. Theoretically, these jobs might make up for losses created by ever stronger controls on traditional productive businesses like agriculture, warehousing and manufacturing. But its highly unlikely.

Construction will be particularly hard hit, since Brown also aims to force Californians, four-fifths of whom prefer single-family houses, into dense urban apartment districts. Over time, this approach will send home prices soaring and drive even more middle-class Californians to the exits.

Ultimately the â€œgreen jobsâ€ strategy, effective as a campaign plank, represents a cruel delusion. Given the likely direction of the new GOP-dominated House of Representatives in Washington, massive federal subsidies for the solar and wind industries, as well as such boondoggles as high-speed rail, are likely to be scaled back significantly. Without subsidies, federal loans or draconian national regulations, many green-related ventures will cut as oppose to add jobs, as is already beginning to occur. The survivors, increasingly forced to compete on a market basis, will likely move to China, Arizona or even Texas, already the nationâ€™s leader in wind energy production.

Tom Hayden, a â€™60s radical turned environmental zealot, admits that given the current national climate the only way California can maintain Brownâ€™s â€œgreen visionâ€ will be to impose â€œsome combination of rate heights and tax revenues.â€ Such an approach may help bail out green investors, but seems likely to drive even more businesses out of the state.

Californiaâ€™s decline is particularly tragic, as it is unnecessary and largely unforced. The state still possesses the basic assetsâ€“energy, fertile land, remarkable entrepreneurial talentâ€“to restore its luster. But given its current political trajectory, you can count on Texans, and others, to keep picking up both the stateâ€™s jobs and skilled workers. If California wishes to commit economic suicide, Texas and other competitors will gladly lend them a knife.
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Joeslogic · Nov 20, 2010

AND

To prevent these foreign America haters from running for the highest office in the future.

Texas Republican Files Birther Bill

Fuk what some Democrat appointed big government America hating Democrat in Hawaii says. If they cannot prove they are American then the state of Texas does not put their America hating foreign @ss on the ballot.

How about that? :biggrin:

BullGod666 · Nov 21, 2010

Joeslogic said: ↑

For all the hate spewing against Palin it is a bit ironic that most of it comes from the people who worship at the feet of Obama even though her resume of experience is twice that as his. She has a lot more real world accomplishments.
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Was that because of my Palin remarks, Joe? She is no more qualified to be president than he is. She has no real world accomplishments that I have seen. She would be laughed at much like that wet brained "W" was.

With the collection of firearms I have, do you think I am a liberal Joe? And yes I am an NRA member.

Joeslogic · Nov 21, 2010

I'm talking in general not about you specifically. I would not consider you one of the zombie's worshiping at the feet of Obama.

Obama never had a real job he was a "community organizer" an activist who simply worked with spongers to help them better to sponge more from the productive people in our society. Obama never had anything productive where he contributed to society.

On the other hand.

Sarah Palin ran a real private sector business before getting into politics. Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska and a very popular one at that.

Call her stupid .... whatever, weather that is true or not her resume is by FAR more impressive than Obama.

Joeslogic · Nov 21, 2010

You are generally not liberal IMO except for your unrealistic and distorted "can do no evil" view of the unions. And you're two faced grudge against Christianity while giving the real freaks (muslim, hindu...etc.) a free pass. But then a lot of people fall for that same form of PC brainwashing that has a grip on society after decades of mind control by the "liberal" establishment.

Lomotil · Nov 22, 2010

Joeslogic said: ↑

For all the hate spewing against Palin it is a bit ironic that most of it comes from the people who worship at the feet of Obama even though her resume of experience is twice that as his. She has a lot more real world accomplishments.

But anywho back to Perry and speaking of blue state vs red state.

http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2010/11/15/california-suggests-suicide-texas-asks-can-i-lend-you-a-knife/

California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife?
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I'm totally stealing this.

Lomotil · Nov 22, 2010

Joeslogic said: ↑

AND

To prevent these foreign America haters from running for the highest office in the future.

Texas Republican Files Birther Bill

Fuk what some Democrat appointed big government America hating Democrat in Hawaii says. If they cannot prove they are American then the state of Texas does not put their America hating foreign @ss on the ballot.

How about that? :biggrin:
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AND that!

Joeslogic · Nov 22, 2010

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