Beam me to Planet Gore !
Texas has added 929,000 jobs since 2001, while California has lost approximately 635,000 manufacturing jobs in that same time, Stewart said.
Answering questions after his speech, Stewart told the story of Perry sending programmed cellphones to CEOs in California with a simple message: "If you're interested in growing your business, please call me. I'm here to help."
"They're doing something right down there," Stewart said of what he dubs the "Texas miracle." "Gov. Perry will go anywhere, any time, to try to recruit companies into Texas."
Perry has taken the state's regulatory process and managed it himself, Stewart said………
[CA Economic Development Corporation President Mark] Lascelles emphasized that it does no good to belabor California's regulatory environment.
"Unfortunately, we can't avoid it. We have to deal with it," he said. Speaker focuses on job creation
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MONTANA: Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.
He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.
When new or relocating companies and investors survey the landscape and consider Montana, what do they see? Well, when it comes to natural-resource development, the landscape looks risky.
Recent headlines highlight two major resource development projects slogging through endless legal and regulatory challenges. Investment flees this kind of uncertainty, so Montanans interested in the future economic stability of this state should be wary of the signals we send…” --- [relates short history of 2 outrageous examples] --
“The common experience for Tongue River Railroad and Tonbridge Power is this: Even if you play by the rules, even if you follow the letter of the law, even if you engage with the public during a planning process, even if you get formal approval from the regulatory authorities, you are certain to face organized opposition whose sole intent is to frustrate project development to the point of financial starvation….”
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Perry environmental stance would transform EPA ....>>>>>Perry "approaches the issues from a very libertarian bent," said Jim DiPeso , policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection. "The EPA would be in for some significant budget reduction. There would be no new intiatives, no regulatory programs that would be initated. There'd be litigation from environmental groups that believe he's not enforcing the Clean Air Act and Water Act as robustly as the law provides."
"Any regulatory programs would be really throttled back," he said. "He has shown no interest in climate policy at all. He doesn't accept the science."
With the governor's blessing, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is challenging at least six EPA greenhouse gas-related regulations. The state's underlying argument: The fundamental finding that greenhouse gases are a public health threat is scientifically flawed.
The federal government is pushing "hastily enacted, cascading regulations" on states and businesses, Abbott argued in a June brief filed on behalf of nine states in federal court.
Perry's approach to energy, DiPeso said, "would be to produce more," rather than discourage the development of energy projects, such as coal plants, that emit greenhouse gases associated with global warming.
"In terms of energy, (Perry) would pursue what many Republicans call the 'all of the above' strategy, with more energy development offshore and onshore," DiPeso said. <<<<<
"ACORN called this their “proudest moment.”"
"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."
Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks Regarding Countrywide Financing
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
"...Today we are not only building upon the 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. 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..."
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/
Meanwhile...
"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..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773449/posts
Amazing the EPA didn't fine folks for the smoke coming from... The Great Texican Mortgage BBQ.
But most states took a standard precautionary measure: At the same time they are suing EPA, they are also working with the agency to find ways to comply with the rules. Then, if the states lose the lawsuits, they will already be on their way to meeting the new standards. States that do not comply with the rules—or need extra time to do so—will be subject to federal intervention, but those that opt for what experts call a “friendly FIP,” or federal implementation program, will dodge punitive measures and get help from EPA until they cut their pollution to permissible levels.
This article should have had a barf alert. Considering that most manufactured goods contain carbon in one form or another, and that most industrial processes produce carbon dioxide, it is physically impossible to avoid carbon in manufacturing.
Thus, the only way to meet the standards is by reducing manufacturing output. States that do this while suing the EPA over the standards are committing economic suicide.
“Carbon pollution”?
Carbon dioxide is PLANT FOOD! These people are insane. Every living animal “pollutes” the air with every breath it exhales?
CO2 is at historically LOW levels, looking at the LONG-term makeup of the atmosphere. At least that’s what I remember from grade 8 science class.
Delusional control freaks.
Perry did stick to his guns on this.The MSM are appalled he does not believe in ‘climate science’.I wish Perry would say it is not climate science it is the proven (remember emails) fake global warming.
I wish and hope Perry is elected president and then tells the EPA they are no longer needed. Sending every one of them into the unemployment line would be a great payback.
Maybe the oil companies and refiners need to raise the price of their products going to the states that have congressmen and senators that support the EPA to offset the higher costs of compliance.
Unless you have driven around the area near the Houston ship channel, you cannot imagine the size and number of refineries in the area and just how much of our country’s gas and other products are produced here.
“Texas consumes more fossil fuels and spews more pollution than any other state”
Maybe that’s because it has a large population and second largest physical size of all the states? I’m sure the fact that it’s freakin’ BIG might cause some need for fuel use? Try driving across Houston like I do pretty much every work day.My commute is over 30 miles each way. Lots of people out on those freeways, going to that thing called WORK that so many seem to no longer participate in or even remember. That tends to cause the use of fuels.
As far as the pollution goes, well, gee, since fuel for MOST of the US is refined here, it might just cause some of that! Since most of the other states don’t refine much if any crude into fuels, of COURSE TX has higher pollution. It’s doing the dirty job for all those other places. Do they think that gas in their tank just falls from the sky or something?
The author is chock-full-O-FAIL.
Of course parts of Texas and Louisiana are pretty rough and polluted due to oil refineries and the oil business in general. So who cares! Don’t live there if you can’t handle it. F the EPA! We should be thanking those parts of Texas and Louisiana that produce refined oil products such as gasoline and diesel for the rest of the nation. But the eco-saboteurs in the EPA want to wreck all that . What do they care, they get their fat Federale paycheck no matter what impact their decisions have. No matter how many people are put out of jobs, no matter how many businesses they shut down
On January 21st 2013 Rick Perry should nuke the EPA. Deny them funding, whatever it takes to put these eco-parasites out on the streets looking for new jobs
