Perry’s Power Politics [These are ideas that deserve to advance to Washington]

Gov. Rick Perry has released a jobs plan. Or is it an energy plan? Or it is an EPA-reform plan? Or is it a trade-deficit plan? The plan is a bit of each, and it is a very good one.

Governor Perry, under whom Texas enjoyed the strongest job-creation record of any large U.S. state, proposes to open up oil and gas production in areas in which American producers are either shut out or heavily restricted: the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida coast, and Alaska, among others....creating more than 1 million new energy-industry jobs.

Politicians give a hostage to fate when they predict that their programs will predict a certain minimum level of new jobs. While expanding energy production in the United States would certainly create many new employment opportunities, the Perry plan would be well worth pursuing if it did not create a single new job. That is because jobs are a means, not an end; the goal of public policy should be to make the nation wealthier and its economy more productive, not to micromanage the economy. A country producing 9.3 million new barrels of oil per day and billions of cubic feet of additional natural gas is a wealthier nation and a more productive one. The job market will reflect that fact.

Governor Perry is of course well positioned to appreciate the growth potential of the energy industry: He has seen it at work....Texas isn’t the only state with a lot of oil in the ground..... The question is not how much oil is in the ground, but whether Americans will be allowed to develop our resources. And it is in that regard that Governor Perry’s plan speaks to what is actually holding back the American economy and what Washington can realistically do about it.

Oct 14, 2011 CSM: Rick Perry jobs plan: Make rest of America more like Texas -- Working ........."Not all economists would put domestic energy production among their top five priorities for job growth. But many do see significant potential in this field, as the Perry campaign does. For example, economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland, in a recent analysis of the nation's employment crisis, wrote that "shutting down US oil and gas development is costing the US economy millions of jobs."

His view: An emphasis on domestic production could create jobs by dramatically reducing America's trade deficit, thus recycling more consumer dollars in the domestic economy. Promotion of energy production would also spill over into job creation in other industries, Mr. Morici says, as a need for refineries and pipelines boosts demand for construction workers, steel, and heavy machinery.".......

[good CW resource material here]: Sierra Club: Perry’s Energy Plan: Wheeze Baby Wheeze [American families have enough to worry about] "Pittsburgh--(ENEWSPF)--October 14, 2011. Today, Texas Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry unveiled his energy plan for America. The plan, if implemented, will poison our air and water with toxic pollutants like soot, smog, arsenic, cadmium, dioxin, lead, and formaldehyde. It would also undercut safeguards from mercury, which is a neurotoxin and is known to harm developing fetuses.

“Rick Perry’s energy plan reads like a roadmap for making America’s kids sick,” said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. “Under this plan, we can expect to see much higher rates of asthma among children, and risk to pregnant women from mercury exposure. Republicans like Perry are putting polluters’ profits first and our kids’ health last. The Republican mantra should be ‘wheeze, baby, wheeze.” .....

Why Rick Perry’s Energy Plan Might be a Game-Changer ...."The financial crisis of 2008 reached critical mass almost precisely three years ago. And in Washington, the band plays on.

It doesn’t have to be this way. The band in Washington isn’t really playing on; they took their hands off their musical instruments and put them around the country’s economic throat years ago. We are by talent and resources among the richest nations on earth, and by our political freedoms, far and away the greatest. But for going on 30 years now, while we have spent more money that we take in, we have chosen to put much of our natural wealth off limits. That choice has led in direct and indirect ways to the straits we find ourselves in now, at the mercy of some of the world’s worst actors to fuel our economy, and on the precipice of bankruptcy. The current president has taken just about every negative fiscal trend and choice and accelerated them. The best line about Obama is simple: He made it all worse. He has made it harder for us to exploit our natural wealth, by making more of it off-limits and by using regulations to make it either too difficult or even illegal to tap. Whether he believes he had noble reasons or not is irrelevant; the effect of Obama’s actions is that everything is more expensive, jobs are more scarce and America is less secure.

In his energy plan, Perry shows that he understands all of this, and will fix the problem.”…………………

Governor Rick Perry’s plan is based on a simple premise: Make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.

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Sections: [ Policy Recommendations with each section]

Energizing American Jobs and Security

Our Conservative Philosophy
ENERGIZING AMERICA

The Failed Current Approach
BARACK OBAMA’S INCOHERENT ENERGY POLICY

Our Approach
AN ALL-AMERICAN ENERGY POLICY

American Energy, American Jobs
DEVELOPING AMERICA’S DOMESTIC RESOURCES IN THE GULF

American Energy, American Jobs
PENNSYLVANIA’S MARCELLUS SHALE

Maintaining Reliable and Affordable Energy
POWERING AMERICA’S ENGINES OF COMMERCE

Renewable Energy
THE VIRGINIA CASE STUDY

Maintaining Reliable and Affordable Energy
EPA REFORM

Energizing America: Jobs and Security
A NEW PRESIDENT, A RENEWED AMERICA

Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama) …………….“"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.

“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”

Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has some exotic views: …………..

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Mozilo's Countrywide had been the first to embrace the homeownership push back in 1995 and had therefore become

a central player in Clinton's public-private partnership.

And since 1998, Countrywide had also become crucial to the fortunes of Fannie Mae, and the personal wealth of Fannie employees who received special mortgage deals from the lender...
--Reckless Endangerrment; pg 182

"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry

--Tuesday, December 14, 2004

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

I’ve been researching some of the anti-immigration groups and found John Holdren’s, “apportioning method” for energy sustainability in the US is cited in the position paper by the Center for Immigration Studies “Outsmarting Smart Growth; Population Growth, Immigration, and the Problem of Sprawl” co-authored by NumbersUSA’s Executive Director,Roy Beck, http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/sprawl.html

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