Texas illegal population: 2.6 million (10%)
Texas unemployment: 10%
Remove all illegal aliens, unemployment drops to 0%
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/18/2009 9:09:45 AM PDT by dragnet2
The Texas unemployment rate rose to 8 percent for the first time in 22 years.
Leisure, construction and manufacturing were the hardest-hit industries last month, losing a combined 35,500 jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Unemployment for August in Southeast Texas continued to climb with 10.8 percent of the workforce now out of a job, the Texas Workforce Commission reported today.
The Texas unemployment rate was 8.1 percent, a slight decrease from July's 8.1 percent. A year ago, it was 5.3 percent.
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/local/se_texas_august_jobless_rate_is_10_8_percent.html
Hope n’ Change you can believe in!
The 11 million illegal Mexicans probably skews the results, though.
Quite a bit better than California! I’m moving to Texas in the next 4 weeks (got a new job). Can’t wait!
Houston year-over-year job loss nearly 100,000
Friday, September 18, 2009
Houston-area employers sharply pared their payrolls, cutting 95,100 jobs between August 2008 and August 2009, the Texas Workforce Commission reported today.
And even at 8% were probably in the top 3 states for unemployment.
Yes, but they can probably still afford their house payments on unemployment (probably $500-$1500/mo for most people) compared to us in California (whose house payments are easily double to triple that)
Texas is home to about 2 million of them.
Being from Michigan, all I can say is,
“Welcome to the Party Pal”!!!
Texas illegal population: 2.6 million (10%)
Texas unemployment: 10%
Remove all illegal aliens, unemployment drops to 0%
4 million is more accurate...
Yeah, but where are the company owners going to get employees that thinks company benefits mean a 10 minute break?
Boy, that's a big incentive...lol.
We've come a long way baby!
No kidding! LOL! This is the thinking in the Obama generation. *sigh*. I voted for Palin and the Old Dude. None of my coworkers (except the 3 conservatives) would listen. I still don’t think they see the connection between Barry’s policies and the current economy. Crazy
I only mention that they can make their house payment on unemployment, because people here in CA cannot and so the housing market takes a double hit with the foreclosures.
It’s sad, I have been in SoCal for 25 years — I really did not want to leave. But Texas has jobs in my industry, and CA does not. My friend got laid off from his job of over 20 years at Kaiser. I think 1800 people got laid off recently, and there’s no work for him out here either. His family may have to relocate too.
It is not my responsibility to ensure that sloth and entitlement mindsets remain unassailed.
Americans used to work, hard, dangerously, and for virtually nothing. It built character. Now, the only "character" we have is an illegal alien Kenyan squatter whose best friends are terrorists and proponents of child prostitution.
I think a little hard work might rebuild appreciation for the little things in life, like 10 minutes off, or a full stomach, or having a limited government. 
Look around a few still do...However the Fedgov working in concert with their state government co-conspirators have made obtaining illegal low wage labor a necessity for many businesses just to compete.
Look at the entire construction industry for example, and what happened to the wages.
Unemployment for August in Southeast Texas continued to climb with 10.8 percent of the workforce now out of a job, the Texas Workforce Commission reported today.
Ping, for your comment on a different thread.
Thanks for the ping.
As others above have said, kick out the illegals and we wouldn’t have any unemployment. And taxes would go down because we wouldn’t have to keep building new schools and roads and paying such high health care.
As I said on the other thread, there’s new housing going up all around here and many are second/vacation homes. The summer tourist business was booming which kept lots of the area kids in a summer job. The house a few doors down has been rented out every week all summer and there’s a crowd of folks there right now. Vacationers are shooting off more “professional” fireworks than ever before and not just on the 4th. My teens park our old clunker in amongst new vehicles at school so no, I don’t see any recession as there’s more money being thrown around than ever before in my neck of the woods.
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