Texas Employment Update!

The Cypress Times ^ | December 26, 2011

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Texas economy expanded at a healthy pace in November, with employment growth outpacing the nation. Texas added 17,900 jobs in November. Year-to-date, the state has gained 197,200 jobs.......

Types of Jobs Being Created in Texas

Chart 1 below provides a breakdown of employment growth by sector since the start of 2011, listing each sector by its weight in the Texas employment mix.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Notice jobs lost and where.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

NEW -- [:31] YouTube Video: Part-time Congress

Gov. Perry is telling Americans in Iowa, "Watch my back and I'll watch your back in Washington D.C."

Perry: Uproot and Overhaul Washington

The Perry Plan: Energizing American Jobs and Security

The Perry Economic Plan: Cut, Balance and Grow

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Source

Misfire: Romney Ad Targets Rick Perry's Jobs Record "I think it's safe to say the Romney campaign is going for the kill with its latest attack on Rick Perry. The former Massachusetts Governor has already gotten a fair amount of mileage out of attacking his Texan rival from the left on Social Security, and from the right on immigration, but this new spot strikes at the heart of the Perry campaign's raison detre -- jobs, jobs, jobs:

The Facts --Mitt Romney's political ad

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The spot's most striking image is a tumbleweed blowing along a deserted Texas highway. That's rich. It's intended to create the impression that Rick Perry's Texas is something of a depressed ghost town. Nothing could be further from the truth. Since the recession began, desperate job seekers have flocked to Texas at a clip of roughly 1,000 people per day. And they're finding work, too. Despite a huge population influx and a bruising national recession, Texas' unemployment rate remains below the national average. How remarkable has the Lone Star State's economic performance been? Read this Political Math analysis (written by a self-professed non Perry supporter), and marvel. One telling data point:

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Perry Wins IPad and IPhone Vote (We CAN take on China and win!)…….”While the rest of the country has been suffering from Obama-itis (too much government regulations and power hungry unionism), Texas has been trying to make itself attractive to business (by limiting regulations, empowering free work rules, limiting frivolous lawsuits, educating ALL its people, limiting taxes) Which brings me back to the IPad and IPhone. As many of you know (well, at least the tech-knowledgeable among us), the brains of the IPAD and IPhone is the A5 chip. These chips are now made in Texas in a new $3.6 Billion facility. How big is this new facility? Well, to put it in terms any Texan would understand: Nine football fields. This is a major facility:

The A5 chip inside Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 4S is now being produced stateside (In Texas), according to Reuters. Sources familiar with Apple’s production details told the news organization that Samsung Electronics is now handling production of the A5 in Austin, Texas. Among manufactured products, the state’s leading export category is chemical manufactures, which accounted for $38.4 billion (20 percent) of Texas’ total merchandise exports in 2008. Other top 2008 manufactured exports were computers and electronic products ($35.2 billion), machinery manufactures ($27.3 billion), and petroleum and coal products ($25.3 billion).”…….

[Lancey Howard]

And he did it all without pushing for communist health care!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yeah....that ObamaCare that Congress exempted themselves from having to live under.

[Cronos]

I admire you for your non-stop promotion of Perry's candidature. And I appreciate, like and laud your past few posts that focus on the good that Perry has done and his abilities rather than on the bad points of his GOP opponents

That's the conservative way! Good on you, C's Wife and good luck!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you but I reserve the right to point out the bad points of his GOP opponents (they are after all his opponents).

[normy]

A constitutionally required balanced budget and a part time congress helps.

[Cronos]

True enough, there is normally a very thin line between pointing out bad points and mud-slinging. But except for Romney I don't see any of the other GOP candidates as opponents (yes, I used that word first, i apologize!) but more as rivals.

thank you again for posting this information about Perry.

[Liberty Valance]

*Good morning and back to work bump*

[ExCTCitizen]

Government jobs were lost in Texas. 0 would say that Perry is not for BIG GOVERNMENT. Of course, we need to cut government by 80%, IMHO.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....0 would say that Perry is not for BIG GOVERNMENT....

O would be correct!!

[algernonpj]

Jobs for whom?

More than 80 percent of the new jobs in Texas went to foreigners and 40 percent of those jobs went to illegal aliens

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ah yes, that anti-immigration GREEN site that can not be criticized.

Try again.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Betting on Rick Perry - a winner in a GOP year, with no need in the world to win liberal approval ………..”IT WILL BE THE JOBS ISSUE—and Texas’s record in creating them—that will define Rick Perry’s presidential run. Since he became governor in 2001, the U.S. as a whole has had a net loss of private-sector jobs, while Texas—which has only 8 percent of the nation’s population—has had a net gain of 825,000 jobs.

Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board, told me that if you look at the number of jobs created since the recession technically ended in June 2009, Texas has accounted for 48 percent of net new jobs created in the U.S.

Fisher also disparages claims that the jobs are all low-paying jobs at McDonald’s or Walmart, paying the minimum wage, or that they were primarily caused by the oil and natural gas boom. According to Tom Pauken of the Texas Work Force Commission, the annual median wage in Texas in 2010 for all occupations was $31,500 a year, only 7 percent below the national average. That difference is easily explained by the fact that Texas has a younger workforce than most states and a higher percentage of workers in lower-pay agriculture jobs near the border with Mexico. [ CW: Cost of living in Texas is lower than many other states; Texas has no state income tax; Texas is a right to work state.]

As for where the job growth has been, three sectors of the economy have grown faster than the energy sector, which alone added 40,500 net new jobs in 2010. Last year, Texas added 57,900 new jobs in trade, transportation, and utilities; a total of 53,400 jobs in professional and business services; and 44,900 net new jobs in the hospitality industry.

For each of the past seven years, CEOs polled by “Chief Executive” magazine have rated Texas first in the nation for economic development climate and job growth. What is the secret of Texas’s success? Rick Perry isn’t shy about his answer. “It’s all about four points,” he told me. “First, don’t spend all the money. Keep the taxes low and under control. Have regulations that are fair and predictable so business owners know what to expect from one quarter to the next. And reform the legal system so that frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers who are trying to create real wealth.”

If there is on issue which Perry has made a personal crusade, it is lawsuit reform. Working with the legislature, he has helped pass curbs on frivolous lawsuits, implemented a first-in-the-nation system under which loser pays all court costs in many lawsuits, and reformed medical malpractice law.

Dick Weekley, the co-founder of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, says Perry showed genuine political courage in resisting calls for watered-down reforms that wouldn’t have addressed the core problem. He recalls that in 2002 Perry vetoed a bill strongly supported by doctors that would have required them to prompt payment from health maintenance organizations. In the eyes of the tort reform advocates, the bill was a Trojan Horse compromise negotiated between doctors and trial lawyers. “There was a huge response from physicians [against the veto],” Kim Ross, the former top lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, said. TMA went so far as to endorse Tony Sanchez, Perry’s millionaire Democratic opponent in the 2002 election. “Perry sent a signal that he wanted real reform and would stand his ground,” Weekley told me. “Soon the medical lobbyists playing footsie with the trial lawyers were gone and the obstacles to real reform started falling.”>………………..

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AND now the TMA is endorsing Gov. Rick Perry. They understand now what he was doing would HELP them.

[algernonpj]

Boy there’s nothing like countering facts with slurs and innuendos. Great job!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You KNOW I’m right. All anyone has to do is research the people behind that site.

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[Oceander]

I like that 16.8% reduction in gov’t. I utterly fail to see why those numbers wouldn’t make anyone on this forum happy, particularly at the federal level.