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Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government Subsidies
The State Column ^ | August 21, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 08/21/2011 6:45:56 AM PDT by AAABEST

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the latest GOP candidate to enter the 2012 presidential race, looks to challenge former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s status as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Perry entered the race on August 13th after announcing his candidacy at an event in South Carolina. Perry’s announcement, which stole the spotlight from the Ames Straw Poll, put to rest several months of speculation about the Texas Governor’s decision to run for the GOP nomination.

During his presidential announcement, Perry said “we cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership.” Perry also added that “page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.”

Ever since his presidential announcement in South Carolina, Perry’s criticism of the Obama administration has been relentless. More recently, Perry criticized the Obama administration’s comments on food stamps or the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it’s also an economic stimulus.” Vilsack also added that “it’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times,” because of the work that goes into an item of food before it ends up in the grocery store.

While campaigning in South Carolina on Friday, Perry slammed the Obama administration’s view of food stamps and other government subsidies. “Most Americans do not yearn to be dependent on government subsidies, they want economic freedom, and economic freedom comes from work and wages, not welfare,” Perry argued.

One of the focal points of Perry’s presidential campaign is the longest serving Texas Governor’s record on job creation. Forty percent of the nation’s new jobs have been created in the Lone Star State since June 2009. “Our message is clear, we’ve got to get America working again,” Perry said during a campaign stop in South Carolina on Saturday.

Perry believes strongly that government subsidies, such as food stamps, shouldn’t be on the government’s list of responsibilities. “The central issue of this election is an Administration that believes Washington must be our caretaker, and a people who want Washington to only take care of their constitutional responsibilities,” Perry professed.

Besides reiterating his belief that food stamps aren’t “economic stimulus,” Perry talked about the need to focus on the private sector when it comes to job creation. “We have tried two and a half years of government trying to create jobs, it’s time to let the private sector get to work,” Perry argued.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dreamact; laraza; maldef; perry; perry2012; perrytards; rickperry; rinofreeamerica; shootingfromthelip; texas
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To: Finny; mikhailovich; Bigun
It ROYALLY PISSES ME OFF that my husband and I work hard and pay so much in taxes that when I go the store, I have to buy hamburger instead of my favoriate leg of lamb -- and I get in line behind some STUPID leech buying filet mignon and sodas with MY money that I COULD have used to buy lamb in instead of hamburger.

It is IMMORAL.

Same with me and the wife. In fact, the local butcher was struggling. But with the influx of people with food stamps who can afford that expensive meat, he has hired 2 new people.

He just runs me and the wife off with a sharp stick.

121 posted on 08/21/2011 10:32:32 AM PDT by bigheadfred (The world needs wannabees)
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To: muawiyah
What I am hung up on is that I prefer an educated Mexican over an uneducated Mexican.

If they meet all the requirements I'm for them paying instate tuition.

They have already been given "free" HS education; why object to them paying for college?

Comprehende?

122 posted on 08/21/2011 10:34:43 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Tempest

Who does represemt your “beliefs?”


123 posted on 08/21/2011 10:40:40 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: bigheadfred

Yet I understood it.

;D


124 posted on 08/21/2011 10:41:29 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Lorianne

Goes without saying. But, the libs would definitely cry about the poor mothers with babies, or daddies also. Just solve that problem with big daycares. Make them use their food stamps daily to feed the kids. Right now, they get food stamps AND we pay for all three meals during the school week. W(in) T(he) F(uture)??!! Why don’t we make them pay with food stamps for these meals.


125 posted on 08/21/2011 10:42:33 AM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: Salamander

That frightens me just a little. :-))


126 posted on 08/21/2011 10:43:09 AM PDT by bigheadfred (The world needs wannabees)
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To: bigheadfred

And there ya go.


127 posted on 08/21/2011 10:43:33 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: LomanBill
I just watched the video link you provided. I heard nothing in Perry's address that I disagree with. This group is the largest hispanic civil rights group in the nation and they were holding their convention in San Antonio, where Perry agreed to speak. In his address, he underlined his sentiment that the federal government is not doing their job on enforcing border security. He also mentioned to this large crowd of hispanics that Texas spends millions of dollars of taxpayer money every 2 years to send state-level law enforcement to protect the Texas border. The nucleus of his message was that he wants our border secured, but since it is not, Texas has to deal with the aftermath the best it can.

Man that is just HORRIBLE isn't it? How dare he address a group of hispanics and tell them he wants our border secured.

128 posted on 08/21/2011 10:46:45 AM PDT by mikhailovich
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To: mikhailovich; Travis McGee; dragnet2

>>This group is the largest hispanic civil rights group in the nation

uhuh.

[La Raza]Violence in Denver

The success of the alternative school and Gonzales' political achievements were overshadowed in 1973, when a man was arrested for jaywalking in front of the Crusade's headquarters.[20] A protest against the persecution was organized, leading to confrontations between demonstrators and police. Soon, a gun battle erupted, and a bomb exploded in the upper floors of the Downing Terrace apartments, which were in the possession of the Crusade.[21] One man was killed and seventeen were injured, among them 12 police officers. Gonzales accused the Denver police department of grenading the facilities, but a detective described the scene of the explosion as a "veritable arsenal".[22] Historians and scholars have yet to evaluate the impact of the bombing, but later prosecutions of Crusade participants served to diminish the influence of Gonzales and his organizations.

After this incident, Gonzales retreated into the private life of his family and Denver's Chicano community. He was still active in the movement, although he maintained a much lower profile.[23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Gonzales

Quack, Waddle... kaBOOM!

 

 

129 posted on 08/21/2011 10:56:37 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill
By the way, the still images of Perry pandering and lending legitimacy to racist organizations like La Raza, have nearly been scrubbed clean from the Internet. I'm mean 99.9 percent of them have simply disappeared.

This is why others are forced to obtain still images from media videos.

You'll note the news media are moving away from still images and instead are posting more and more videos, making it difficult for many people to post a simple, readily viewed still image. As opposed to having to post links of some video, where half the people don't even bother viewing them due to the video time duration etc, etc.

130 posted on 08/21/2011 10:56:43 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mikhailovich

Exactly.


131 posted on 08/21/2011 10:58:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: LomanBill

You’re dragging up something that happened nearly 40 years ago and trying to connect it to Perry?

Care to come up with something a little more this century?

Where were you on all the recent Obama/La Raza threads ... Hmmmm?

Nice try!

Next?


132 posted on 08/21/2011 11:04:43 AM PDT by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
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To: mikhailovich; LomanBill
I just watched the video link you provided. I heard nothing in Perry's address that I disagree with.

Anyone home there?

It's the fact that he went to La Raza, seeking votes, pandering to and lending legitimacy to this very racist, anti-white American, pro-illegal alien organization.

La Raza is a racist Latino, mainly Hispanic, organization that champions the “rights” of illegal immigrants aliens, as well as advocates open borders and the return of the southwestern US to Mexico.

Hello, anyone home?

133 posted on 08/21/2011 11:07:27 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Yeah, I get that. We all do. The fact is, Perry is governor of a state with a huge Latino population. He has to address them. He has to engage them, speak to them, etc. He is a politician, after all. We could say the same things about the NAACP and many other minority groups. I’m sure you can find good and bad aspects about any of them. The fact they claim to represent huge populations of minorities means you’d better incorporate them into your state’s agenda. There’s nothing to this hogwash.


134 posted on 08/21/2011 11:13:47 AM PDT by mikhailovich
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To: wolfcreek

>>You’re dragging up something that happened nearly 40 years ago...[snip]
>>Where were you on all the recent Obama/La Raza threads

So if Obama panders to a Terrorist organization - that’s bad. But if Perry does so, that’s ancient history.

Uhuh.

Quack Waddle - RINOcRAT.

What time does the racewar start?


135 posted on 08/21/2011 11:17:10 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: dragnet2

Yeah, we are home! I am wondering if you aren’t ‘out to lunch’ most of the time. Tell us again who you are supporting?


136 posted on 08/21/2011 11:18:34 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: AAABEST

When, during his term as Governor of Texas or before that, did Perry “slam” “Food Stamps, Government Subsidies”.

These are nice sound bites, but, in Perry’s political history are they new and is that all they are - sound bites to attract a needed group of voters.


137 posted on 08/21/2011 11:20:17 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: dragnet2
Hello, anyone home?

I work with an American-Mexican who told me he is a member of La Raza but hates "spics". Not even gonna try to figure that one out.

138 posted on 08/21/2011 11:21:03 AM PDT by bigheadfred (The world needs wannabees)
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To: mikhailovich

>>He has to address them. He has to engage them, speak to them, etc. He is a politician, after all.

Uhuh. Same thing the RINOtards were trying to use to justify caving in to the Log Cabin crowd.

>>hogwash.

That what The Party(tm) is calling painting lipstick on a RINOcRAT pig these days?


139 posted on 08/21/2011 11:22:14 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Ditter; dragnet2
>>Tell us again who you are supporting?
 
I'd vote for Thomas Jefferson, but he's unfortunately not available to run; neither in life - nor in the Texas Public Skewal Curriculum...
 
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=Texas+curriculum+Jefferson
 
...if certain Texicans had their way.  
 
Which reminds me -- What's Perry's interpretation of Jefferson's Virgina Act for Establishing Religious Freedom?
 
 
Got TEA?

140 posted on 08/21/2011 11:29:44 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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