Reports: Perry’s Texas Miracle Isn’t

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.

“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.”

I don't know what part of Texas you are in, but down here in San Antonio I'll bet I've met 10 - 15 people in the last year that have moved here from Wisconsin. I've really got no complaints as they all seemed like really nice people, but I can't for the life of me figure out where the synergy between San Antonio and Wisconsin lies. Maybe things are so bad up there they are just looking for anywhere to go.

Luckily for us down here, most of the West Coast kooks prefer 90 miles north of here, Austin. Or as I like to think of it, the smelly armpit of Texas.

Considering the net job growth in America has been a big, fat ZERO in the last 3 years... adding 40,000 new private sector jobs in just one state is pretty dang impressive.

You are comparing the job growth in Texas to a healthy, normal economy... which we are most patently *NOT* in at this time.

Why?

***You are comparing the job growth in Texas to a healthy, normal economy... which we are most patently *NOT* in at this time.

Why?***

You have a good point. But were talking about the *claims* being made by the Perry camp that he created jobs during this horrible economy.

In the end, that’s what he’s standing on to get elected. The reason people got so excited when he decided to run was that they believed that Perry could magically turn the economy around with the Texas model.

But a closer look shows that Texas hasn’t created more private sector jobs. If you want more illegal aliens working and more gov’t jobs popping up while the private sector gets more anemic, then Perry is your man.

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 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.

Bears repeating.

This is a sad, depressing, and accurate post. This is what we see in NJ where illegals are subsidized to the tune of ~ 10 Billion per year. Our vaunted 'conservative' governor has no problem with that, after all he is a member of the 'country club' RNC.

Get a bunch of the far NE Yankees in a group when they think no one outside their group is listening and see what they think of Texans.

Everybody that doesn't come from the NE is stupid, especially Texans.

Get those people in a group when they think no one is listenig except their own, and they sound like the have a CD of left wing talking points shoved in their ear.

Texas, under his leadership, has created 1/3 of all jobs in America over the last 3 years. That’s pretty impressive, no matter how you parse it. Specially if you consider the economic climate of the nation.

One state, out of 50, created them with good business policies. (Or in other words, the state got out of business’s way.)

Imagine what could be done with that kind of attitude in Washington.

One state, out of 50, created them with good business policies. (Or in other words, the state got out of business’s way.)

Imagine what could be done with that kind of attitude in Washington.

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