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Rick Perry — king of corporate welfare
Miami Herald ^ | Glen Garvin

Posted on 08/15/2011 10:56:37 PM PDT by Tempest

The unfortunate fact is that Perry and Obama have a lot more in common than either would like to admit. They both think they’re smarter than the laws of economics and that they make wiser choices than markets do. And they both see taxpayer money as a giant trough for feeding their political pals. Perry is actually truthful about this, sort of. “I am a pro-business governor,” he told Time magazine last week. “I will be a pro-business president.” What he means is that he’s pro-certain-businesses, the ones run by his friends.

As governor of Texas, Perry controls hundreds of millions of dollars in state handouts to corporations for “job creation and economic development.” Not surprisingly, it turns out that the funds are especially good at developing one particular sector of the Texas economy: Perry’s campaign funds.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: business; fake; peery; perry; perrybashers; probusinessperry; ricardo; rickeytherino; rickperry; rniorick; shyster
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This guy stinks in a seriously bad way and his corporate masters are trying to push him out hard so that they can get a return on their an investment and their hands on the American cookie jar.
1 posted on 08/15/2011 10:56:46 PM PDT by Tempest
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To: Tempest

RINO’s are always in favor of redistibution of wealth. They just want it to come from the bottom up, I guess that’s why they’re called bottom feeders.


2 posted on 08/15/2011 10:58:48 PM PDT by Tempest (Ruining the day of corporate butt kissers everywhere.)
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To: South40; dragnet2; SoConPubbie; Paperdoll; cripplecreek; trumandogz; Palter; Cheetahcat

Ricardo Perry ping.


3 posted on 08/15/2011 11:05:41 PM PDT by Tempest (Ruining the day of corporate butt kissers everywhere.)
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To: Tempest

We’re all thinking of something to say.


4 posted on 08/15/2011 11:09:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Tempest

“To deal with troublesome property owners who didn’t want to sell, Perry persuaded the legislature to pass a new form of eminent domain known as “quick-claim,” in which the state could have seized any land it wanted with just 90 days of notice, then “negotiate” the price later.”

The RINO Rick-Bots will even love this one.


5 posted on 08/15/2011 11:15:01 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Tempest

And the article does not even mention that RIckey The RINO gave 250 million of tax payer money to a European Socialist to build a race track in Texas.


6 posted on 08/15/2011 11:17:22 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

I hear he ‘threatened’ Bernanke today.

Don’t you just want to swoon over him and his dreamy hair.


7 posted on 08/15/2011 11:18:16 PM PDT by Tempest (Ruining the day of corporate butt kissers everywhere.)
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To: trumandogz

Do you have any links for that please? That bothers me more than anything else that bothers me about Perry.


8 posted on 08/15/2011 11:19:59 PM PDT by numberonepal (Palin/Cain 2012)
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To: numberonepal

http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/cw-i-propertyrights.htm


9 posted on 08/15/2011 11:22:22 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: leapfrog0202

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE

Freepathon Day 46

10 posted on 08/15/2011 11:23:22 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: leapfrog0202

Excellent!


11 posted on 08/15/2011 11:25:50 PM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Tempest

What really stinks is how hard-core the leftist media is going after him. I had the displeasure to watch MSNBC for a bit earlier today and it was laughable how they were going after him. That tells me something there. They are scared their chosen one can be beat by Perry


12 posted on 08/15/2011 11:28:07 PM PDT by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: Tempest
Perry is actually truthful about this, sort of. “I am a pro-business governor,” he told Time magazine last week. “I will be a pro-business president.” What he means is that he’s pro-certain-businesses, the ones run by his friends.

The proper term for that is "corrupt".

13 posted on 08/15/2011 11:30:04 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Tempest
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Re 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 posted on 08/15/2011 11:34:14 PM PDT by abcc2011 (Christian and conservative.)
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Oh, boy. I am sure that we will soon hear the *real* truth about this. Any minute now.


15 posted on 08/15/2011 11:34:48 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Mama always told me if you cain't say something nice/use duct tape. Ever try to ducttape a keyboard?)
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To: Tempest
This is an old cartoon, so don't forget to add the "Anti-Communist Health Care" and "Pro-Communist Health Care" podiums:


16 posted on 08/15/2011 11:37:08 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Tempest

Perry is like Bush43 - putting the interests of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Mexico ahead of what’s best for the country.


17 posted on 08/15/2011 11:41:02 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: trumandogz

But wait! Was there an opt out clause?


18 posted on 08/15/2011 11:41:20 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Mama always told me if you cain't say something nice/use duct tape. Ever try to ducttape a keyboard?)
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To: vpintheak

Let’s face it Obama has been such a horribly poor leader a trained monkey could beat him at this point.


19 posted on 08/15/2011 11:42:50 PM PDT by Tempest (Ruining the day of corporate butt kissers everywhere.)
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To: vpintheak

The more they learn about Perry, the more constitutional conservatives are attacking Perry too.


20 posted on 08/15/2011 11:43:42 PM PDT by bwc2221
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