[mikhailovich]

Perry's jobs plan is exactly what we need to jump-start job growth. It baffles me why his detractors kick dirt on the idea of expanding energy and oil exploration to create jobs. People inside this industry will tell you correctly that a bunch of corollary jobs are created. Hotels and lodging, welders, electricians, truck drivers, manufacturing of pipeline materials, machinists, grocery stores, barbers, child care -- in fact, entire micro-economies are created.

Its a win-win for everyone involved.

[palmer]

It baffles me why his detractors kick dirt on the idea of expanding energy and oil exploration to create jobs.

You'll never find me kicking dirt on it and Cain has a more or less similar plan for energy (although 9-9-9 is his higher priority centerpiece). The people who don't like either Cain or Perry are the the ones kicking dirt on it. Behind them is the globalists talking about how America needs to produce less carbon dioxide (i.e. we need to be weakened). That means Romney and Huntsman and probably some others.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cain fans aren’t among the dirt kickers on that part of the Perry plan. Cain would agree with maybe 95% of Perry’s economic development ideas, except with a revamped tax system on top.

What Cain refuses to do is to open a door that would end up augmenting the Democrat “gimme” base to the point no rival party ever sees the light of day again. That has nothing to do with Perry economic development. That has everything to do with Perry amnesty ideas.