Reports: Perry’s Texas Miracle Isn’t

thenewamerican ^ | 26 September | Cort Kirkwood

[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

[robowombat]

Perry is a wealthy Texan whose wealth is founded on agribusiness. Just as every other wealthy Texan such a Clements and Bush2 who were governors they are ‘business conservatives’. Which means they are interested in low taxes and limited regulation which helps their bank account. They also violently resist any attempt to expel illegals or control the border. Why? Well, they really don't care about all the negative social and law enforcement consequences of the illegal invasion. They are rich and well protected from the consequences of gang violence, zoo like public schools, a d third worldization of towns and cities. These men get much richer hiring illegals using various off the books dodges. In this way they avoid all the expenses of paying workers comp, unemployment insurance and social security. They transfer these costs to the middle and working class taxpayer who does pay his or her state, local, and federal taxes and sales tax which pay for the social welfare costs of the illegals. This class of men are open in their contempt for the normal middle class American who they see as a sap and a sucker who will go on indefinitely subsidizing these plutocrats fortunes. When any question of expelling illegals or controlling the border comes up they manage to accuse those who propose this of being racists or mean heartless people. How they manage that without choking s amazing. Gov. Clements (admittedly a true bully) is famed for his public eruptions of profanity laced fury when anybody asked him a question about any state legislation requiring employers check the immigration status of employees or even eliminating English as a Second Language. These people are fake conservatives.

[achilles2000]

This article is below the normal standard for The New American. Creating jobs and who fills them are different issues. Perry has maintained and improved a friendly business climate, which generates jobs. The Governor has nothing to do with private hiring decisions. For those who want to claim that the jobs have been “low wage” jobs, researchers at the Dallas Fed has already put that one to rest.

What motivates the article? Everyone should know that The New American is a a big Ron Paul supporter.

I’d be happy with Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Santorum, or Palin (if the diva deigns to enter the race). What I see too much of here are fixations on one candidate or other, and these fixations often result in irresponsible commentary on others. The net result of in-fighting by conservatives could well be a Romney nomination (blech, yuck, etc.)

[11th_VA]

ROFLMAO - priceless !!!

[Windflier]

I live in Texas, and have a small business in the construction industry. I can remember some years back, when hundreds of illegals lined the streets around every Home Depot, looking for day work.

Not now. You’ll never see more than a handful around any Home Depot these days. From what I’ve observed of trade activity over the last few years, they’re all employed now - taking jobs that Americans used to do. My jobs.

[ilgipper]

Accept this anti Perry people, and reject fiscal conservatism. Love to see all the freepers who fall for leftist horse manure.

Texas is the of destination of countless companies moving from statist blue states. this is a victory of conservatism and should be regarded as such by every free republic member.

[Marie]

You should stop by Killeen, Copperas Cove, Lampasas, etc. We’ve got closed store fronts popping up like mushrooms.

My son’s been trying to get a *good* job. he joined a ‘matchmaking’ service. every morning he gets 4-5 job openings, for jobs that pay $12-16 an hour that he’s qualified for.

And within a couple of hours, there are 600+ applicants for that one slot.

I’m sure it’s worse in many places; but it’s murder here, too.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

This is crazy talk. Earlier today, I read that Two-Thirds of Elected Republican Agriculture Commissioners endorsed Rick Perry.

If all this were true, how could Perry possibly have gotten the coveted Elected Republican Agriculture Commissioners’ endorsement?

[Marie]

***Perry has maintained and improved a friendly business climate, which generates jobs.***

From the article:

"But here’s what Perry doesn’t say: “virtually all of them” were government jobs, Newman wrote: “Net job gains in Texas have come entirely from government hiring, which accounts for 115,000 new jobs over the past three years. The private sector in Texas shed about 40,000 jobs during that time."

[verity]

How are things in California?

[Marie]

If all this were true, how could Perry possibly have gotten the coveted Elected Republican Agriculture Commissioners’ endorsement?

Could it be that agriculture relies heavily on illegal immigrant workers?

[TheThirdRuffian]

How much did Romney and his buddy Obama pay for this “study.”?

[Blado]

How are things in California?

Good question.

Of course California panders way more to illegals than TX.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

“But here’s what Perry doesn’t say: “virtually all of them” were government jobs, Newman wrote: “Net job gains in Texas have come entirely from government hiring, which accounts for 115,000 new jobs over the past three years. The private sector in Texas shed about 40,000 jobs during that time.

According to Newman, federal jobs in Texas jumped 7 percent compared to 4.3 percent nationwide. State bureaucracy increased 8.4 percent, while dipping 0.1 percent across the nation. And local government jobs shot up 6.1 percent, while diving 1.7 percent nationwide.”

And Perry is the Antidote to Obama???

Electing Perry is going to Fix WHAT???

[CharlesWayneCT]

As someone said at National Review today, it is no longer enough to trash Perry mercilessly. Now some conservatives have decided to trash Texas, which up until now was the shining beacon of conservative principles in action, showing the way forward to the nation.

Now we are just tearing it down, not because it is false, but simply because acknowledging it might give Perry some credibility, and we can’t have that.

But Sarah Palin pointed to Texas as the conservative light to a liberal world. It hurts us all to be so short-sighted.

[CharlesWayneCT]

They are burning the village to save it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I guess if you want to believe a poorly sourced article which cites “reports” that they don’t understand from left-wing think tanks, you can.

[IMR 4350]

Living here in Texas I have to say I'd rather have some of the illegals than some of the Yankee's or the west coast kooks we get. At least the illegals don't act like everybody owes them something.

[achilles2000]

This is typical statistical cherry picking. The relevant period is the 11 years he has been governor. Moreover, the last three years has seen a relative collapse in private hiring everywhere as a result of the depression. So measuring from pre-depression levels to what we hope is the trough of the depression is hardly being straight-forward. A net gain in private sector jobs is significant because every other large state has produced net private sector losses on a mammoth scale. Factor in, also, that Obamalini has been doing everything he can to harm Texas economically (e.g. by crippling the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico).

The RP people have been out to smear Perry from the beinning. While Perry certainly has some negatives, his economic performance has been good when properly evaluated. Businesses want to move to Texas, which tells us a lot more than The New American.

[Ron H.]

Rick Perry's voting bloc heading to the polls...

[Arec Barrwin]

I agree. Immigrants have been hired to do such jobs in such large numbers, not because Americans refuse them, but because Americans are not willing to perform such tasks where the wages are lower than they would otherwise be, where work rules may not exist and where the working conditions may be hazardous.