Posted on 09/09/2011 2:36:31 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Mr. President, we cannot spend our way to prosperity, it does not work.”
Perry said he has a “record of change” whereas Obama only offers “the rhetoric of change.” Though he spent most of his brief remarks assailing the president, Perry vowed to continue to contrast himself with his GOP rivals too.
Perry, who mixed it up at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Wednesday night with the other Republican presidential hopefuls, particularly Mitt Romney, acknowledged that “we’ve got our differences.”
“We’ll talk about them,” Perry said, adding “hopefully in a very respectful way.”
“I stood on the stage last night with seven other very, very fine and great Americans and every one of them would better than what we have in the White House today,” Perry told the crowd, “any one of them.”
Few in the crowd seemed to be concerned about Perry’s use of the term “Ponzi scheme” to describe Social Security despite the criticism he has been drawing even from other Republicans. (Perry did not use that phrase on Thursday.) In fact, some of his supporters appeared to be embracing “Ponzi scheme” as a rallying cry. Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson, a Perry backer, who spoke ahead of the governor, praised Perry’s use of “provocative language.”
And Micki Blair, a teacher from nearby Corona, Calif. who said she was leaning toward Perry in the primary, agreed.
“I don’t think his rhetoric is too strong,” she said. “I think that people are mature, have a brain. They can figure out that if you don’t put enough in, you can’t pass it all out. It just doesn’t work that way.”
Perry will remain in California through the end of the week. He has a full schedule of fundraising events in Southern and Central California and the Bay Area.
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EXHIBIT A Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks Regarding Countrywide Financing / Dec 14, 2004 " ...Today we are not only building upon the Texas Enterprise Fund’s tremendous record of creating jobs, we are unveiling its crowning jewel. I am proud to announce that the state of Texas is investing $20 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund to help Countrywide Financial bring 7,500 additional jobs to Texas over the next 6 years."
Perry said: "This is the largest job creation announcement in the United States since 2000 according to Site Selection Magazine, and proof that the Enterprise Fund is a key reason Texas is leading the nation to economic recovery. You can consider the Countrywide expansion to be “Exhibit A” as to why we need to continue to invest state dollars in the Texas Enterprise Fund..."
NOTE Countrywide is the crooked company at the core of the US financial meltdown. Many of Perry's financial contributors received large grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund.
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EXHIBIT B Gov Rick Perry partnered with Rudi Giuliani to fix the deal for Texas roads
DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop Texas State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties.
The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road.
Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Dept of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country."
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TEXAS Gov Perry rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor
One News Now ^ | August 24, 2007 | Chad Groening
FR Posted on 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.
Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.
The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.
"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."
Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.
Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.####
(Cue in Perrydactyls foaming at the mouth.)
And so it begins! :)
ROTFL---I guess Rick will wear his monogrammed serape and matching sombrero for the inaug.
Senor El Perrynista receives a monogrammed serape from Coahuila Gov Enrique
Martinez as a token of appreciation for enacting the Texican Dream Act
(tax dollar giveaways to illegals).
"crowning jewel... Countrywide Financial"
--Governor Rick Perry"these new laws will actually make it much harder for these individuals to purchase housing due to the fact that they, in many cases, are unable to qualify for traditional mortgage financing and builders and investors will now be less inclined to offer lease-options or ‘rent-to-own’ scenarios as a purchasing alternative under these new laws.""Perry began investing his considerably higher salary in land around Austin, getting in just before the housing boom sent Sun Belt real estate values skyrocketing. By 2007..."
huh? I know I have only been in Texas for 71 years but I have never heard that “old Texas saying” and I have met lots of both kinds of yankees.
: )
” I know I have only been in Texas for 71 years but I have never heard that “old Texas saying””
Sorry....you need to have lived in Texas for 91 years : )
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There is another kind of Republican who sees the election of 2012 as a tipping point for the nation — a do-or-die moment when we will either pull back from the precipice of debt and national decline or fall off the edge. This second brand of Republican is hoping that a candidate will emerge who can lay before the American people the nature of the challenge we face in a direct and forthright way. If a campaign is run and won on the need to reform our obese government, the new president will have a mandate to take the necessary steps once in office.
After Wednesday’s Republican debate, it seems that Mitt Romney represents the first group, and Rick Perry stands for the second. ………………”
Rick Perry’s Air War (with the EPA)...........>>>Texas alone opted for the unfriendly approach. It’s the only state that did not issue a plan for compliance—and Perry has made it clear that Texas has no intention of complying. The move was a blatant slap to the Obama administration—and once again gave Perry the national spotlight. Defying the climate rules offered him the perfect opportunity to loudly decry the science of global warming—which in his book Fed Up! he calls a “contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”—and to slam EPA as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind-set” that has “targeted Texas.” Such rhetoric is viral catnip to the tea party voters who could help catapult Perry to the 2012 presidential nomination.<<<..............
In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence ………>>>When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan jabbed Mr. Perry on public schools in mid-August, it was only the latest skirmish between the governor and the Obama administration since late 2009, when Mr. Perry announced that the state would not sign on to common core-curriculum standards.<<<...
The Left is signaling that they hope a President Perry will fix education and get the inner cities out from under the impossible mess they've created.
Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?
Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.
And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.
That’s a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors. …..”
It’s a keeper!
After the women's win, Maryland students lit fires, rocked a bus and were hit with pepper spray.
BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore judge ordered nine teens charged with beating a woman aboard a bus to stay in their homes. The judge agreed with prosecutors Friday morning, who said the Robert Poole Middle School students should not be allowed to leave their homes before their Jan. 31 trial. They're also to be monitored electronically.
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I guess I have missed a lot. sob~
America is destined to fall in love with his style and soothing personality.I'm one of those who found his personality a little on the gruff side the other night. It was the first time I had ever seen him speak.
But looking back on it, now in the 2nd day after the debate, I find myself liking more and more that very gruffness that at first put me off.
I was also very worried about the "ponzi scheme" remarks, and his forceful reiteration of them. But that was only a horse-race kind of worry. I definitely agreed with all those statements, I just wondered if they were going to kill his chances.
Now, the 2nd day after the debate, after reading many reactions both here and elsewhere, my concerns on that score are totally evaporated.
I was the one at fault, feeling squeamish. Not Perry, who was just telling the truth.
Interesting that you post that picture in #44, because there are many Perry-haters in FR who are exactly like those 2 guys in the foreground of that picture. Exactly like them. That’s the exact “argument style” of many of the anti-Perry posters in FR.
People like Alpha Males especially as president...Perry is definitely an Alpha Male...not what lives in our WH now.
Obama is an alpha shemale.
Please read my post#57. I meant to copy you on it.
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