Rick Perry was born in Texas but a lot of us say....
Posted on 11/15/2011 1:45:29 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
If it seems like half the people you meet are from California, you may be right. New Census data shows 281,713 Californians moved to Texas between 2007 and 2010, more than from any other state.
Why? It's the economy, of course.
"If Texas is doing somewhat better than other states, it's getting more people," said William Frey, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, who analyzed the data.
While Texas drew more people than any other state in 2010, most Americans are staying put.
......"These are the people that are putting their lives on hold," said Alison Fields, chief of the census bureau's Journey-to-Work & Migration Statistics Branch.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
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Rick Perry was born in Texas but a lot of us say....
No. lol
My small Texas town 56 miles south of Dallas us being hit hard with the loss of 280 jobs--
From http://corsicanadailysun.com/local/x811208947/Lance-confirms-Feb-10-closure
November 10, 2011
Lance confirms Feb. 10 closure
Move to impact jobs, water sales, and tax entities
CORSICANA - The Corsicana Lance manufacturing plant is closing, the company confirmed Thursday morning, the day after telling the employees of the plans.
The company will close its doors on Feb. 10, consolidating the work done here into other plants, according to a press release from Heather Wolford, a public relations spokesperson hired by Snyder’s-Lance, Inc.
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The 100 Corsicana Lance employees will receive some severance pay and help with job searches, and information about jobs at other plants, the release stated.
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The announcement that Lance will close its Corsicana plant came on the heels of the announcement by Home Depot that it would close its distribution warehouse by August.
The loss of jobs will have the first impact on the local economy, with a combined total of 280 jobs disappearing within the next 10 months. Those losses will affect everything from housing and grocery sales, to restaurants and small businesses.
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I love sign. Uprooted TEXAN here, but my heart is there.
It’s a special place with good people.
There must be a lot of illegal Californians moving to Texas.
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Rick Perry:
FIRST: "Don't spend all the money!"
SECOND: "Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!"
THIRD: "Have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing and make loser pay!"
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.".......
........."you can lay your fears to rest because in the last year the Texas public sector has shrunk by 26,000 jobs. In the last 12 months, Texas lost 31,300 federal employees, trimmed 3,800 state jobs, and increased local government jobs by 8,400 jobs."........... Source
Misfire: Romney Ad Targets Rick Perry's Jobs Record "I think it's safe to say the Romney campaign is going for the kill with its latest attack on Rick Perry. The former Massachusetts Governor has already gotten a fair amount of mileage out of attacking his Texan rival from the left on Social Security, and from the right on immigration, but this new spot strikes at the heart of the Perry campaign's raison detre -- jobs, jobs, jobs:
The Facts --Mitt Romney's political ad
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The spot's most striking image is a tumbleweed blowing along a deserted Texas highway. That's rich. It's intended to create the impression that Rick Perry's Texas is something of a depressed ghost town. Nothing could be further from the truth. Since the recession began, desperate job seekers have flocked to Texas at a clip of roughly 1,000 people per day. And they're finding work, too. Despite a huge population influx and a bruising national recession, Texas' unemployment rate remains below the national average. How remarkable has the Lone Star State's economic performance been? Read this Political Math analysis (written by a self-professed non Perry supporter), and marvel. One telling data point:
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.”………………..
It would REALLY be ironic if they were all moving to Oklahoma. Call it the Wrath of Grapes.
lol
While Texas drew more people than any other state in 2010, most Americans are staying put.
You may end up wishing these Californians had stayed home ? Are they moving to Escape Socialism ? Or simply Introduce it to the Great State of Texas ?
They’re moving to find work and start businesses because Texas is fighting and winning the war against over taxation, over regulation and over litigation.
and his willing cohorts in the Democrat Party! How any person who claims to love America could be a Democrat... 
is a complete mystery to me!
And, of course, let us not forget the RINOs in the Republican Party... 
they deserve a lot of blame also--
Rick Perry ain't the best talker by far... 
but he speak volumes to me!
Full length Rick Perry speech video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21z30aNO3cA
Listen to it and then tell me what Rick says is wrong?
If Texas doesn't get significant rainfall in the next year, we will all be joining you.
Bender you’re a treasure!
Here, grab you a handful, girl... 
I also like to share, ya know!
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