"Conservatives hail it and liberals dispute the story, but one thing is certain about the Lone Star State's employment success: The number is real":
Texas - The Job Engine [LA Times OpEd - July 3, 2011] "....At the same time — and this, of course, is the tough part for those on the left to swallow — it is clear that the state's limits on taxes, regulations and lawsuits are contributing to the job machine. "The most important thing I think that's happened to us is tort reform," Fisher, the Dallas Fed president, has said. He added that when John Deere and other companies have decided to hire in Texas, they've been largely driven by steps the state has taken to cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice suits and to make it harder to bring product liability and class-action cases..."
Betting on Rick Perry - a winner in a GOP year, with no need in the world to win liberal approval [The American Spectator -- October 2011]: [excerpt]...."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.” [end excerpt]
Where is all this Tea Party money they talk about? Here in Central Texas, we have one woman who risks her own money to rent a bus and we pay her for our seats.
I want some of that Koch money I’m always hearing about!
COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY groups...
If the author of this tripe spent 30 minutes on FreeRepublic once a week he would know better than to produce crap like this. It is the moochers vs. the producers and frankly, we have had enough.
Oh, and it wasn’t Reagan “who borrowed massive amounts” it was Tip O’Neil who SPENT MASSIVE AMOUNTS the gummint didn’t have. Let’s get the record straight on that much, anway.
Oy.
The writer seems very irritated. That's pretty much all I get from this piece, other than that he casually equates the Tea Partiers with the Occupy Wall Streeters, as if they are both sides of the same coin. With that kind of thinking, no wonder he's got nothing to offer.
Moratorium on immigration immediately unless that immigrant has a critical skill and does not come from a nation that is unfriendly that to the US.
End the entitlement class forever. The only thing that should be handed out to young people that are physically able to work is birth control. We have GD gangmembers who are drawing lifelong benefits because they were shot, claiming disability and PTSD. Their babysmamas are getting tax returns and not working. Hey, “It’s free, swipe your EBT.”
You don’t work, you don’t eat. That will solve all that nonsense about the jobs Americans won’t do.
Comparing the dweebs from OWS to Tea Party patriots tells me the author is full of caacaa.
Just curious — Why do they capitalize “Occupiers” and not “tea partiers”?
The only good commie...as it has always been.
I don’t see where the author mentions once about out of control gubmint spending or those who permanently suck on the public tit and only vote for a living.