Posted on 08/19/2011 11:14:36 PM PDT by Tempest
While Perry is staking his campaign on Texas being the top net jobs creator, Perry’s version of Texas being “Open for Business” isn’t about low taxes and less regulation as much as it is about doing business with foreign companies, including selling off Texas’ sovereign land and public assets to foreign creditors, an issue which Perry’s first television ad uses to take aim at President Obama.
A recent Washington Post article documents Perry’s work to get Chinese government-owned telecommunications company Huawei, to base its U.S. operations in Texas, a company that the U.S. government has deemed a threat to national security noting that “three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.”
Perry’s coziness with the Chinese and foreign investors exposes a huge weakness in his right flank — illegal immigration and open borders. The Trans Texas Corridor has been linked to the global plan to economically integrate North America, with the eventual goal of a common security perimeter modeled after the European Union. Perry ushered in in-state tuition for illegals and has long been an obstacle to immigration reform or any Arizona-style immigration law.
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Proof is in the pudding.
If so Texas would be in the same crapper as California,New York and Illinois.
Companies are flooding out of California to Texas.
If all states had no state income tax and a base sales tax rate of 6.25% the US would be in a much better place.
Starting in January,2013 if America looks more like Perry's Texas that will be a huge step forward.
Hey if I could get a couple of get a couple of millions of dollars for a few thousand in campaign contributions I’d think you were the cats meow as well.
FWIW, Raimond is, or was, a Buchananite.
Raimondo, that is.
With regards to Texas' many virtues, I challenge you to name a single one that is actually attributable to Perry.
They make us sitting ducks to anyone who comes along who knows how to look good but is essentially planning for and secretly heading us into dismal wickedness and failure. They are stupid enough to think that those with terrible agendas contrary to everything we stand for won't come disguised as a great individuals.
All of history says otherwise. History is rife with conspiracies that worked leaving in their wake horrific blood drenched, freedom robbing consequences because those that should have stood in their way were blind to them. Anyone who thinks it can't happen here is a stupid stool pigeon especially after Obama.
I’ve testified with and babysat for Terri at the Capitol. (in fact, we testified with Robert Morrow against expansion of toll roads one night last spring. Talk about your strange coalitions!) However, she’s more than a bit overboard, here.
That’s not the first time, though. She attacked Frank Corte in the primary although Frank, a Marine, is one the staunchest conservatives and the author of most pro life legislation that’s passed in the past decade.
The fact that Governor Perry or any other politician defends life and the family means nothing to her. She forgets the priority of life and liberty when she cheers and aides pro-abort, pro-embryonic stem cell, ‘comprehensive sex ed Reps Fisher-Martinez and Farrar on her web page, endorsing them because of Toll roads!
Public private partnerships, combined with the passage of our SB18, protecting Texans from illicit eminent domain takings, are not inherently bad.
This ‘agenda 21’ claim is over the top. Makes me concerned that her completely baseless claims that Perry and Corte are in it for the money and power is a case of pure projection.
We do have a new voter ID law and It’s illegal for illegals to get drivers licences.
Texas, U.S. must fund road infrastructure - Express-News Editorial Board
Seems there's a problem......Maybe it's time for another solution -- like the one the "environmentalists" killed that's strangling business and commerce.
This editorial board is calling for more taxes (they say Perry won't). Perry's knocked for the "TTC" but those who use it as a "bad" mark against Perry, don't know beans about it (or -- haven't bothered to learn enough to make a good argument against it).
Does the use of the term “neocon” really mean anything to you? It’s a term that alerts the rest of us that you’re an anarchist or a Pauler.
Sarah Palin endorsed him for Governor, came to Texas to do it.
I endorse him, too! Get out of the way of President Perry!
A question Tempest.
Is this “editorial” or “extended news?”
You listed it as both.
That was a Merck study for heaven’s sake. The vaccine was only approved about 7-9 months when Perry signed his executive order without going through the legislature - the whole thing was fast-tracked. There’s been at least one death and thousands of other side-effects from this vaccine.
We’re dealing with corruption in our whole government system from the deals with Monsanto to Vaccines for some rare flu that all of a sudden just happens, and so on... We need someone in there who can fix it and that’s NOT slick Rick.
The studies were all over the world, by different labs and researchers. Finland, the UK, the USA. The British Journal of Cancer had published a five year follow up in November, 2006. And, 4 years and 40 million doses later, we’re seeing fewer abnormal pap smears. (The only reason to get a pap is to look for cell DNA changes. These changes are due to HPV 99% of the time.)
There have been no deaths due to the vaccine. The reactions are similar to any medical procedure. The events that have been reported happen at the same rate in the same population without the vaccine.
The legislature had delegated the authority to mandate vaccines to the Executive Branch.
Terri Hall is the founder of the San Antonio Toll Party and Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. She started a taxpayer revolt upon learning of plans to convert Highway 281 into a tollway and charge taxpayers again for what they already built and paid for. TURF's grassroots efforts halted two freeway-to-tollway projects, curbed plans for the Trans Texas Corridor, defeated bad bills with runaway taxation in the Texas Legislature, opposed using federal stimulus money to build toll roads, and awakened Texas to the coming infrastructure bubble and bailouts. Whether speaking before community groups of all types, the Legislature in Austin, at rallies in Washington D.C. or on CNN, Terri is a tireless taxpayer advocate. She invites you to learn more and to join the fight at Texas Turf Org
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There's more to the story (Isn't that always the case?).
CorridorBotch.org, or David Stall-ed ..........>>>If everything with which these CW.org miseducators, and their brethren in groups such as Texas Toll Party, have been frightening or angering these poor residents into intellectual submission were true, the TTC would be a slab of concrete spanning from Beaumont east to El Paso west, and pave the state in totality between San Antonio and Dallas.
Every town to which these people pay a visit is told that they are in dire danger of being diametrically bifurcated by the coming highway, no matter how far east or west they might be. To cite but one fraudulent example, residents of every single city, town and village along the Taylor-Manor corridor have been regaled with egregiously fabricated tales of municipalitive destruction and vociferous eminent domain pillaging.
The problem is, Corridor Watch et. al. are by no means allowing the facts to get in the way of a good beating. Every proposed path (and there are still at the very least three) currently under consideration places the TTC on the northern and southern ends of planned SH-130, which is a good fifteen miles west of the villes in question and in crisis over their alleged impending devastation.
That these Corridor clowns are asserting anything with certitude belies their veracity on all things, because right now NO ONE outside of the TxDoT TTC circle knows anything about any aspect of the plans…………………..”
There are attending political ramifications to all of this, which is rarely the case when one is discussing a candidate who garnered a mere 8% of the interest of the citizenry. For there is a distinct waft of Strayhorn in the air surrounding the empty Stall and his Corridor Watch.
Comptroller Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn, currently adrift on signature collection waters in her bid for Independent Gubernatorial validity, has been a fixture at CW.org events, railing prodigiously (yet without substance) against the TTC, and the very concept of toll roads.
But herein arises a consistent theme when discussing Madame Comptroller; her inconsistency. Because prior to her decision to run against the TTC-proposing Governor Rick Perry, she too saw the meritoriousness of the concept of consumption road funding.<<< ......
I like Sarah Palin but she can be wrong too. Ronald Reagan said "trust but verify". Everything needs to be investigated. We can't take anything at face value. We have been fooled before too many times. Let stop being foolish.
Well said.
“In a grand flourish, Perry thanked the small minority of legislators who sided with him:
“They will never have to think twice about whether they did the right thing. No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.”
In response, the sponsor of HB 1098, Republican state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, blasted Perry for “using cancer victims as his backdrop for an issue that he has grossly misjudged.”
“Just because you don’t want to offer up 165,000 11-year-old girls to be Merck’s study group doesn’t mean you don’t care about women’s health, doesn’t mean you don’t care about young girls,” Bonnen added....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/04/rick_perrys_gardasil_problem_110089-2.html
Now that’s a leftie tactic if I ever saw one - Republicans don’t care if you die from cancer etc. I can envision Obama, Pelosi, Reid doing exactly what Perry did. I continue to maintain Perry is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
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