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Posted on 09/26/2011 3:17:37 PM PDT by VU4G10
The Texas Miracle of Texas Gov. Rick Perry is little more than a Texas-sized myth.
That’s the upshot of reports across the political spectrum, Right to Left, that have evaluated Perry’s claims.
Chief among the tall tales is that Texas has become a jobs machine. That’s true, but Texans aren’t getting the jobs. Immigrants are. More than 80 percent of the new jobs in Texas went to foreigners, the Center for Immigration Studies reported last week, and 40 percent of those jobs went to illegal aliens.
That is no surprise, given that Perry is an open-borders, leftist Republican, but in any event, other reports show that most of the job growth in Texas came in one sector: government.
Border Jumpers Get the Jobs
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Yup, it’s illegals who have their greatest leader in Rick Perry.
I have a heart I just don't like faux conservatives politicians who pander to ILLEGAL aliens.
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OUCH. That’s.gonna hurt. ;-)
The irony is that the number of jobs in Texas available to “illegals” would be praised to the skies if Perry wasn’t a Republican.
ROFLOL
Strange; I visit various cities in Texas repeatedly throughout the year on biz trips. I have remarked repeatedly that it is the one place in the USA that I travel to that is doing well, economically. No entirely empty office parks as in Illinois, no sales clerks telling me they can’t get jobs as certified teachers anywhere in southern California, no government near bankruptcy trying to pay state employee pensions as in Rhode Island. I’ve been told repeatedly when I’m there by people who have moved to Texas in the past few years that anyone can get a job there; it may not be the best job you’d like to get but its available, it pays and Texas is a heck of a lot cheaper in living costs than almost anywhere else I’ve been. Of course, what I’ve seen personally as an out-of-stater doesn’t fit the political agenda of the press.
“More than 80 percent of the new jobs in Texas went to foreigners, the Center for Immigration Studies reported last week, and 40 percent of those jobs went to illegal aliens.
Might be true if you count yankees as foreigners, otherwise this is BS.
I guess Texas is making the jobs the rest of America doesn't want. A lot of folks in the other 56 states are apparently waiting to get hired on to government jobs at top dollar. You know -- good Obamaplan jobs, on the public dime.
Remember the “Massachusetts Miracle” of the corrupt midget, Mike “Tanks for the Memories” Dukakis? There’s a lot of ways to make numbers scream and these guys know how to torture them.
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If Perry wins the nomination, it will be without this Texan’s help.
I still waiting for another shoe to drop on this former Democrat. Perry pushed for and did not give up on his Trans-Texas Corridor idea until the bitter end. It would have been the largest eminent domain property seizure in American history, and would have given that land to a Spanish toll road company for a minimum 50 years.
How he plans to square that with “conservative principles” is beyond me.
I don't believe in the notion that there are “jobs Americans don't want.” I myself, have over the years, washed cars, scrubbed toilets, moped and waxed floors, worked construction. I'll admit I didn't work construction for long due to a fear of heights.
My point is that I have done many of the jobs that typically attract illegals and I'm not above doing them again. Legal and illegal immigrants DO take jobs away from hard working Americans and put enormous pressure on our social services since 70% of them end up on some kind of assistance. It almost doesn't pay to be a native born American any more. How can we justify keeping the flood gates open when we can't afford to take care of the people that already live here? There are no jobs that Amercians won't do.
I was there once last year, found that no one working in the service stations and fast food places spoke english as a first language.
The state can use a miracle of a good hard rain for several days.
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