Posted on 10/14/2011 8:34:13 AM PDT by Clairity
Pittsburgh: Gov. Rick Perry's Full Remarks on Energizing American Jobs
The central issue facing Americans is a lack of jobs.
The plan I present this morning, Energizing American Jobs and Security, will kick-start economic growth and create 1.2 million jobs.
It can be implemented quicker and free of Washington gridlock because it doesn't require congressional action. Through a series of executive orders, and other executive actions, we will begin the process of creating jobs soon after the inauguration of a new president.
The quickest way to give our economy a shot in the arm is to deploy American ingenuity to tap American energy. But we can only do that if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
“Palin was our only hope.”
Great. So now let’s all just give up, don’t even bother to try to get a nominee who can beat Obama, just drink a bottle of wine to ease our pain and give Obama another term, to destroy the country completely. Do you think this is what Sarah would want you to do?
Sarah will be out there campaigning for Republicans and against Obama and the Dems. Just because she decided against running, she is not giving up. She would be ashamed at your defeatist attitude, if she knew about it.
I can see moping about it for a few days, but then you get up and focus on the prize: defeating Obama and getting a Republican Congress with sufficient margin to enable passing or repealing laws — starting with Obamacare and other job killing regulations.
The only two viable alternatives to Cain are Romney and Perry. Both only have "public executive experience" as governors. Do you know how bad the history of governors becoming president in the last 100 years is? If people do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, the odds would be with them if they disqualified governors from being president.
In addition to the great commonsense behind this, I love the ending subsidies across the board. All the subsidies do is create an artificial market and draw capital away from a real return. The other component to this that might get over looked is the type of jobs that are created. They will be high wage jobs raging from engineering to blue collar construction. People can build a future on these types of jobs.
Strong president, yes. Strongman, no.
I like the plan and I love the emphasis on energy and energy independence.
Drilling and other paths to energy available in the U.S. would do so much for us. Not only would it create a vast number of jobs, but it would reduce our dependence on middle eastern oil.
We could pack up and leave them to kill each other. That would be fine with me.
My liberal state has voter ID. It’s window dressing in regards to the overall illegal problem.
BTW, did you know that in Texas the HHS is not required to verify immigration status before handing out benefits?
Posting an asinine statement like that doesn’t do much for your shaky credibility on this forum.
999 has some good things about it. We truly do need to lower corporate rates and get rid of the income tax....at least flatten it.
This jobs plan by Perry is a home run.
Conservatives need to take the good stuff from all our good people and make it part of an overall conservative platform.
Then we need to run the most electable conservative on that platform.
The only one I know about that is idling is Conoco-Phillips. They are selling it because it is unprofitable for a whole host of issues. What does that have to do with Shale exploration? Perry said nothing about refinery closings here. He specifically poked his nose in a different issue to make it look like he has some say as President on this.
Sure the EPA is trying to hinder things, but the bigger hindrance to shale exploration in PA are the green peace types throwing roadblocks up in communities over safety issues. What exactly is Perry going to do about that? Lock them up through executive order?
No the gauardasil issue died it did not get implemented at all..but why let little things like facts get in the way
You are so right about the ‘cainiacs.’
They have a visceral hatred of Perry with virtually no substance behind it.
I don’t bother responding to them any more as they make no valid points and just repeat the same old lies and misconceptions.
What I find really strange, though, is why they are willing to destroy someone who might end up being our last best hope against Romney.
Either Perry or Gingrich ... unless you are convinced Cain can make it (I’m not), or convinced Cain could beat Obama (actually, I would hope he could but I have serious misgivings about that).
What’s weird is that they sit in wait like ugly vultures on the top of trees, hoping to feed off a carcass they are willing to create of one of our own.
“If people do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, the odds would be with them if they disqualified governors from being president.”
This must be the most ignorant remark in the entire thread, and we already had some doozies.
Governors are the ones who actually had experience in running a state — the US is just bigger and more complex. Whom do you want as president, Senators, diplomats, business executives? The problem with business executives is that they ARE dictators in their companies, if they don’t like someone, they can fire them, they can force people to implement their vision. A president is not a dictator — he has to work with Congress.
And as for Perry, he has a beyond excellent record as Texas governor for 11 years — he must be doing something right, people are flocking to Texas because that’s where the jobs are. We need him to do for the US what he did for Texas.
Cain’s wonderful business executive experience consisted of closing down Godfather Pizza places, cutting jobs, not creating them.
Herman Cain saved Godfather’s Pizza by ‘shuttering hundreds of restaurants’
Is America ready for The Herminator?
In a 40-year business career, perhaps his greatest feat was turning around the struggling Godfather’s Pizza chain, in part by closing numerous branches. He was also a board member of a major energy company when it was successfully sued by employees for nearly obliterating the pension fund on risky investments.
If these are his ideas why would he need to memorize them? Unless of course they are not HIS ideas?
Those Exec. Orders are to undo the exec orders that Clinton, Bush and Obama issued that are killing us. Obama killed the coal industry. Coal is cheap, it's what used to make most of our electricity, now we're barely allowed to use it. Right now we are selling our coal to China and Russia because since we cant use it they can get it from us cheaper than sending their slave labor to get their own coal. It cost our country millions of jobs and is giving China billions of extra dollars to spend on their military. Not to mention it is causing our "energy bills to necessarily skyrocket".
Stop with the "I don't like Rick Perry because he hurt my feelings" and research the issues. You don't like him, fine, but learn what you're talking about before you make such statements.
Obama is trying to kill my state with executive orders either to pay us back for not voting for him or because we prove that the American Spirit and the Founder's ideals are alive and well in Texas. Do you know he has an executive order that is supposed to go into effect in Jan. that causes us to basically shut down a large part of the electric grid in Texas? Do you know how many jobs that will cost?
Tell me, how is the 999 plan going to turn my power back on? Until there is another candidate that is going to kill the EPA, Perry gets my vote.
I know, it's disgusting, they call him "pizza man" and "pitchman" with "no experience" ...oh wait...
As a Texas native of somewhat advanced years, I have to respectfully disagree with you about a fence along the border.
A fence is a barrier to entry. We already have a barrier, called the Rio Grande. Yes, it has some shallow places, but most of the length, it is pretty effective as a barrier. That is one reason you do not hear much about illegals wandering through Big Bend park, as you do about that park in Arizona. The shallow places on the Rio Grande are well known.
So why not add a fence?
The notable fences along international borders, the Maginot Line, the Wall of China, the Israeli fence around the west bank, all have been less than effective when considered over a long period of history. The time periods when they were effective were the time periods when there were lots of boots enforcing the effectiveness of these barriers.
So, since we already have a barrier in the form of the Rio Grande, and we will need “boots on the ground” anyway, no matter what additional barrier we might add, why not just go for more “boots on the ground” right now?
Just take advantage of the barrier we already have.
Dredge the shallow places in the Rio Grande, put up numerous observation towers (like we have for forest rangers in east Texas), use electronic surveillance and drones, add fences in areas where they are appropriate, but most importantly, have lots of forces strategically placed along the border to respond to and apprehend anyone crossing the Rio Grande.
We could do all of that fairly quickly, and it would have a very big impact. We do not need to wait on a fence along the entire length of the Rio Grande.
The following analysis of Texas Border Security was written by two military experts, who each have extensive experience. They essentially recommend the same sort of thing. The report seems long, but one can get the meat of it by reading pages 8-15.
Why do I think this approach would work?
We have had illegals cross some land we own which is 70 miles from the border. They have made a mess and obviously are a security concern. Certainly we want that to stop. However, the incidence of illegals crossing our land has decreased significantly in the past several years, including before the current economic downturn. The reduction in illegals on our land directly correlates with the increase in patrol activities by authorities at Laguna, Bracketville, and Barksdale, all towns between our property and the border.
It seems to me that increasing in boots on the ground has had an impact, at least in the area that I know something about.
If the above suggestions do not work, then spend the time and money to build another barrier. I just respectfully suggest we try something that seems to work first, because it is faster and probably cheaper.
Leave my governor out of this. That’s a deflection on your part to avoid a discussion of the authority placed in the Executive branch to perform its function of enforcing the law.
Are you suggesting that Congress as the Legislative branch of three separate but equal branches should have total control over the ability of the Executive branch to enforce the law? Do you believe that the executive officer of the Executive branch should not have the ability to change the way the Executive branch enforces the law without consulting Congress? Is that what you’r saying? It sure sounds like it.
Please tell me how the separate but equal Executive branch of the government should conduct its function of enforcing the law without using its authority to do so.
Because they are full of details that need to come quickly off the tongue when in front of a viewing audience. And memory isn’t really enough....it has to be part of your blood stream, if you know what I mean.
I don’t think at that level that any candidate’s plan hasn’t first been vetted through a host of experts.
So far as the energy thing that he’s touting, I’ve been writing about the same stuff since before the 2008 election. I’m from south central Ohio, and I’ve been calling for a reliance on clean coal technology (plus others) for years.
Why send our cash to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela,...?
Refineries are marginally profitable in the NE area, because they run expensive North Sea crudes instead of cheaper domestic crudes. Because they are marginally profitable, those specific refineries cannot afford to invest in the facilities to reduce the sulfur level in heating oil.
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