Posted on 10/03/2011 1:16:29 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[excerpt of new issue not yet online]
IT WILL BE THE JOBS ISSUE—and Texas’s record in creating them—that will define Rick Perry’s presidential run. Since he became governor in 2001, the U.S. as a whole has had a net loss of private-sector jobs, while Texas—which has only 8 percent of the nation’s population—has had a net gain of 825,000 jobs.
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board, told me that if you look at the number of jobs created since the recession technically ended in June 2009, Texas has accounted for 48 percent of net new jobs created in the U.S.
Fisher also disparages claims that the jobs are all low-paying jobs at McDonald’s or Walmart, paying the minimum wage, or that they were primarily caused by the oil and natural gas boom. According to Tom Pauken of the Texas Work Force Commission, the annual median wage in Texas in 2010 for all occupations was $31,500 a year, only 7 percent below the national average. That difference is easily explained by the fact that Texas has a younger workforce than most states and a higher percentage of workers in lower-pay agriculture jobs near the border with Mexico. [ CW: Cost of living in Texas is lower than many other states; Texas has no state income tax; Texas is a right to work state.]
As for where the job growth has been, three sectors of the economy have grown faster than the energy sector, which alone added 40,500 net new jobs in 2010. Last year, Texas added 57,900 new jobs in trade, transportation, and utilities; a total of 53,400 jobs in professional and business services; and 44,900 net new jobs in the hospitality industry.
For each of the past seven years, CEOs polled by “Chief Executive” magazine have rated Texas first in the nation for economic development climate and job growth. What is the secret of Texas’s success? Rick Perry isn’t shy about his answer. “It’s all about four points,” he told me. “First, don’t spend all the money. Keep the taxes low and under control. Have regulations that are fair and predictable so business owners know what to expect from one quarter to the next. And reform the legal system so that frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers who are trying to create real wealth.”
If there is on issue which Perry has made a personal crusade, it is lawsuit reform. Working with the legislature, he has helped pass curbs on frivolous lawsuits, implemented a first-in-the-nation system under which loser pays all court costs in many lawsuits, and reformed medical malpractice law.
Dick Weekley, the co-founder of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, says Perry showed genuine political courage in resisting calls for watered-down reforms that wouldn’t have addressed the core problem. He recalls that in 2002 Perry vetoed a bill strongly supported by doctors that would have required them to prompt payment from health maintenance organizations. In the eyes of the tort reform advocates, the bill was a Trojan Horse compromise negotiated between doctors and trial lawyers. “There was a huge response from physicians [against the veto],” Kim Ross, the former top lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, said. TMA went so far as to endorse Tony Sanchez, Perry’s millionaire Democratic opponent in the 2002 election. “Perry sent a signal that he wanted real reform and would stand his ground,” Weekley told me. “Soon the medical lobbyists playing footsie with the trial lawyers were gone and the obstacles to real reform started falling.” [end excerpt]
I don’t know.
I think jobs are “the” issue.
I do not know if Perry can tie himself closely enough to the Texas record to make it the issue for HIS campaign.
On a related note, I can personally vouch for what the article says about tort reform. Perry DID play a big role in that back in 2003. I know that personally, as I have been very involved in the tort reform movement. Perry DID in fact stand up to the trial bar on that, to his immense credit. I know that will make some freepers mad, but it’s true.
He did not create jack, a storm move tens of thousands of people from new Orleans to Texas, billions of tax payers money was spent on this, the balance was migration to the south that had been going on for the past thirty years. Are do you think he caused the population growth to Georgia and Florida also.
No. I'm paying attention not over on another candidate's thread pissing all over them because I have nothing else to do.
You’re a spinner Liz, I’ll give you that.
Perry will seal the border and grow a conservative ascendancy as he has here in Texas.
Your lies have been discounted over and over. But I understand. That is all you have.
Have you had your head in a hole? That last two elections he has had some extremely strong contenders...in the primary he was way behind Kay Baily then beat her by 300,000 votes.
Well, we’ve been sucking up California companies and residents like a black hole, so we have the right people voting with their feet.. to TEXAS.
You’re repeating yourself — so if you missed it...I’ll repeat my post for you:
You are fun.
You think all the people that have swelled our population, built businesses and filled job rolls are only from people who fled New Orlean’s disaster with Katrina and natural migration?
Wow. That’s not factual.
Do you care about facts?
If your premise is correct, why is only Texas doing so well?
Perhaps it’s due to the things mentioned in the article.
but in Texas Perry is known as the come back kid. He is not one you ever count out.”
That’d be ok by me.
Interestingly, I do think when the post mortems are done on this primary, we are going to see lots of evidence that Perry should have gotten in sooner. I think that would have helped him.
I think it is utterly laughable that people think Christie can pull it off at this stage. I’d be amazed if he tried, and I’d be shocked if he won a state. It is WAYYY late now, as we are looking at early January Iowa caucus.
I just don’t know if Perry can pull this off. I think Cain deserves a look, as well. All in all, I know the country is simply desperate to oust obama.
They’re just jealous that we’re importing all the best and brightest industry because in large part thanks to Perry, the business of Texas is Business.
The business of the rest of the country is implementing Marxism, must suck for them.
Thank you for your honesty.
Doing well, the unempoyment is within one percent of the rest of the country, how about we move three are four military bases out of texas and see what happens to the state unemployment. We are fighting a war you know.
Perry had back surgery in June and had state business he needed to be completed before announcing. Those 2 special sessions were important and he got most of what he wanted passed. He didn't get everything but almost. That is why he entered late. NO excuses for him just pointing out how he takes care of important state business first.
Kay Bailey was not a serious contender for Perry. She is giving her up Senate seat for many of the same reasons she was not seriuosly ever going to make Governor. She’s gotten wishy-washy, overly D.C.-fied, and even more of a “get along with ‘em” stain than even Perry right now.
Strayhorn and (especially) Medina both tried to run to the right of Perry and got shellacked doing so.
As for the general.....Chris Bell (who?), Kinky Friedman (why?) and Bill White (who?, again) have been his opponents.
You’re right.
I don't know about your numbers but I do know:
David Stein: Debunking the Rick Perry “Pro-Shraria” School Curriculum Myth
Amil Imani Governor Perry's Islam Connection ………”No matter how I tried, I couldn't reach the conclusion
AND
Michigan universities set own rules on illegal immigrant tuition ratesAs political hot cakes go, Gov. Rick Perry's support for his state's guarantee of lower cost in-state tuition for illegal immigrants attending Texas' public universities sizzled at a recent Republican presidential debate.
Twelve other states have similar laws, even as others have banned the cheaper home state tuitions.
But at Michigan's public universities, the rules depend on the school…………"
Unless Cain actually catches fire, (who knows the answer to that yet), the reality is that it is either Romney or....(possibly) Perry.
Unless Newt surges, I guess?
In any event. If I were forced to place a bit right now, and only had to consider the money, I’d have to bet on Romney, and that is sort of scary, to say the least.
I don’t know why you bother to write this crap to me. I don’t bother to read it.
In any event. If I were forced to place a bit right now, and only had to consider the money, I’d have to bet on Romney, and that is sort of scary, to say the least.”
Talking to myself here....why does all this feel so 2008?
Kay was backed by the Bush machine and Karl Rove.
Medina lost because she was outed as a Truther.
White had millions from trial lawyers and lost.
Kinkey is a wild supporter of Perry for President.
Chris Bell had an awful campaign strategy.
Rick Perry beat them out and won. Period.
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