Smith is not praising the Governor. He manages to end with a smear every time. Not surprising, since this is the guy from the NPR/UT online news that took money from George Soros this year.
The jobs smear is especially bad. Texas’ unemployment would be 2.3% if it weren’t for all the people moving to Texas. Our median income hits just about the same as the average in the US;$15 or so, meaning that a lot of those jobs must pay very well. The fact that we do have so many employed affects that “most minimum wage jobs” number.
for more on jobs and economy, see this:
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590
As to the “middling grades, we’re still waiting on Clinton.’s and Obama’s transcripts. Why do only Republican’s grades end up on the ‘Net?
Yep, I can sympathize. We have extremely low unemployment here, even Walmart stockers are making $12 and getting over 40 hrs/week. There are jobs all over the paper, but not many places to live if you get one (and housing is darned expensive--$2000/mo for a two-bedroom apt.), and our weather isn't conducive to camping out.
Another factor is population: we have just over 700,000 people in a slow year, Texas has a lot more. To drop our unemployment a percentage point takes fewer jobs, because there are fewer people to start with. Yep, we've been mobbed by folks from elsewhere--about the only 'new arrival' license plate I haven't seen is Hawaii. But the limiting factors of housing and our famous winters keep that from becoming excessive.
An awful lot of that is oil-related, or spinoff jobs which exist because of the oil patch being busy here. The 191 rigs running here keep jobs going elsewhere, too--we see where the tools come out of on the shipping manifests.