Rick Perry and Texas Job Numbers ( How good was job creation in the Lone Star State?)

Political Math ^ | 08/16/2011

[Recovering_Democrat]

good read. thanks for posting.

[OrangeHoof]

Anyone who drives up and down I-35 sees it: plenty of out-of-state license plates. I presume they’re not here for the 100-degree temperatures and drought conditions. They’re here for jobs. Ever since the recession, it’s a well-known fact that Texas is the best place to hunt for jobs.

You can claim Perry has nothing to do with it but somebody kept government off the backs of Texans so they could grow their businesses and earn a good living. Just as a wild guess, that wasn’t Californians or New Yorkers.

Now, it Perry had only been around for the past two years during a growth spurt, you could say it was just a fluke. But he’s been governor for 10 years during all sorts of economic cycles including hurricanes Rita and Ike.

Sure, there are some warts on governor Perry, but I’d take him over Obama and anyone here who wants to trash him may have to eat their words if he becomes the nominee and your choices are Perry, Obama or sit it out. Anyone who doesn’t do their duty then has no right to complain.

[shield]

Rick Perry will put this country back on the right track...people are interested in jobs and economy...and they are looking at Texas...Americans will support Perry ALL THE WAY TO THE WH......

[SeekAndFind]

RE: As soon as the Fed quits turning the dollar into toilet paper, Texas will go bust again, and they’ll still be paying for all the corporate welfare handouts Perry’s made over the last 10 years.

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Some other factors involved...

[SeekAndFind]

GRAPH TAKEN FROM THE TEXAS EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION:

[SeekAndFind]

EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS BY AREA OF OCCUPATION
Occupation Sectors	Employment		Change	Percent Change	Current Average Hourly Earnings
	2009	2016
Management, Business and Financial Occupations	407,361	486,322	78,961	19%	$34.61
Professional and Related Occupations	648,543	785,269	136,726	21%	$30.60
Service Occupations	577,495	718,828	141,333	24%	$10.25
Sales and Related Occupations	425,052	500,390	75,338	18%	$17.00
Office and Administrative Support Occupations	481,454	551,240	69,787	14%	$15.54
Farming, Fishing and Forestry Occupations	5,285	5,126	-159	-3%	$11.11
Construction and Extraction Occupations	232,369	276,946	44,577	19%	$18.97
Installation, Maintenance and Repair Occupations	133,358	156,535	23,177	17%	$17.24
Production Occupations	207,641	230,125	22,484	11%	$16.43
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	212,908	242,057	29,149	14%	$17.06
Military Occupations	14,707	14,363	-344	-2%	$13.24
Total All Occupations	3,346,173	3,967,203	621,030	19%
Note: Data is for the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metropolitan Statistical Area. Totals may not add due to suppression and rounding. Source: Workforce Solutions, EMSI Complete Employment - 3rd Quarter 2009 and Texas Workforce Commission

[shield]

This is why Texas is doing so well...PERRY PERRY PERRY...

[TADSLOS]

Rick Perry, or any government official at any level, does nothing to create jobs, EXCEPT to stay out of the way of those that can, and do.

Unfortunately for Texans, Rick has spent close to 400M of taxpayer money funding his pet industry jobs contracts programs referrrred to as the Emerging Technology Fund and the Texas Enterprise Fund with some serious fraud waste and abuse being committed by a majority of the participants. The return on investment for these jobs contracts are pretty dismal. Rick's not afraid to spend taxpayers money on big government handouts to subsidize private sector jobs and he seems to have no problem pushing his own version of "stimulus" spending.

[DRey]

This was a fantastic post. I just found it on my own and noticed you had already posted it. Too bad no is reading it.

[hocndoc]

This post just needs a bump.

I blogged on it, today. I was glad to find it here, and that you’d done all the hard work with those graphs. Thank you and thank “Political Math!”

[listenhillary]

You’re saying that we don’t need oil?

[CowboyJay]

"You’re saying that we don’t need oil?"

Nope. I'm saying that once oil prices drop back down below a certain level, Texas becomes a less profitable place to produce it. Same for ag commodities. The Texas economy is tied directly to the weak dollar. Unfortunately, that weak dollar is poison for most of the rest of the country.