The Rick Perry Thread

[ThrillsNSpills]

Actual picture from Perryprayapalooza.....



Remind you of anything.......

I looked at the empty seats and thought the VanSam tour of '04.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Why do have to keep repeating myself today?

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Because we scroll past your posts.

[Guitar Shark]

But who can reverse a horrible Supreme Court decision? Right now, nobody

Congress is always free to pass new legislation. It happens all the time when a legislative body is unhappy with a particular judicial decision.

Keep in mind that the judiciary has no independent enforcement mechanism.

[jhale667]

Because we scroll past your posts.

[Justin Vagina]

Fuck Prick Perry!

He took money to force young girls to take gardasil. He sounds like Bush. He pretends to be a Christian and he pretends to be Ron Paul. Fuck that Prick!

[ThrillsNSpills]

You can't expect the kind of person that diddles Mouseketeers at Bohemian Grove to suddenly wake up, grow a conscience and sense of compassion, and do the right thing for anybody. Allegedly...(I see the lawyer in the room, thanks) Allegedly.

It's like getting mad at animals for hunting, when that's biologically what they do.

None of them have solutions for anyone but themselves

[bueno bob]

Rick Perry? LOL. Great, if you loved the Bush regime. Get ready for more, with a side dish of dominionist to boot!

[Little Texan]

Link

The Texas Unmiracle
By PAUL KRUGMAN

As expected, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has announced that he is running for president. And we already know what his campaign will be about: faith in miracles.

Some of these miracles will involve things that you’re liable to read in the Bible. But if he wins the Republican nomination, his campaign will probably center on a more secular theme: the alleged economic miracle in Texas, which, it’s often asserted, sailed through the Great Recession almost unscathed thanks to conservative economic policies. And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore prosperity to America by applying the same policies at a national level.

So what you need to know is that the Texas miracle is a myth, and more broadly that Texan experience offers no useful lessons on how to restore national full employment.

It’s true that Texas entered recession a bit later than the rest of America, mainly because the state’s still energy-heavy economy was buoyed by high oil prices through the first half of 2008. Also, Texas was spared the worst of the housing crisis, partly because it turns out to have surprisingly strict regulation of mortgage lending.

Despite all that, however, from mid-2008 onward unemployment soared in Texas, just as it did almost everywhere else.

In June 2011, the Texas unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. That was less than unemployment in collapsed-bubble states like California and Florida, but it was slightly higher than the unemployment rate in New York, and significantly higher than the rate in Massachusetts. By the way, one in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation, thanks largely to the state’s small-government approach. Meanwhile, Massachusetts has near-universal coverage thanks to health reform very similar to the “job-killing” Affordable Care Act.

So where does the notion of a Texas miracle come from? Mainly from widespread misunderstanding of the economic effects of population growth.

For this much is true about Texas: It has, for many decades, had much faster population growth than the rest of America — about twice as fast since 1990. Several factors underlie this rapid population growth: a high birth rate, immigration from Mexico, and inward migration of Americans from other states, who are attracted to Texas by its warm weather and low cost of living, low housing costs in particular.

And just to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with a low cost of living. In particular, there’s a good case to be made that zoning policies in many states unnecessarily restrict the supply of housing, and that this is one area where Texas does in fact do something right.

But what does population growth have to do with job growth? Well, the high rate of population growth translates into above-average job growth through a couple of channels. Many of the people moving to Texas — retirees in search of warm winters, middle-class Mexicans in search of a safer life — bring purchasing power that leads to greater local employment. At the same time, the rapid growth in the Texas work force keeps wages low — almost 10 percent of Texan workers earn the minimum wage or less, well above the national average — and these low wages give corporations an incentive to move production to the Lone Star State.

So Texas tends, in good years and bad, to have higher job growth than the rest of America. But it needs lots of new jobs just to keep up with its rising population — and as those unemployment comparisons show, recent employment growth has fallen well short of what’s needed.

If this picture doesn’t look very much like the glowing portrait Texas boosters like to paint, there’s a reason: the glowing portrait is false.

Still, does Texas job growth point the way to faster job growth in the nation as a whole? No.

What Texas shows is that a state offering cheap labor and, less important, weak regulation can attract jobs from other states. I believe that the appropriate response to this insight is “Well, duh.” The point is that arguing from this experience that depressing wages and dismantling regulation in America as a whole would create more jobs — which is, whatever Mr. Perry may say, what Perrynomics amounts to in practice — involves a fallacy of composition: every state can’t lure jobs away from every other state.

In fact, at a national level lower wages would almost certainly lead to fewer jobs — because they would leave working Americans even less able to cope with the overhang of debt left behind by the housing bubble, an overhang that is at the heart of our economic problem.

So when Mr. Perry presents himself as the candidate who knows how to create jobs, don’t believe him. His prescriptions for job creation would work about as well in practice as his prayer-based attempt to end Texas’s crippling drought.

[jhale667]

Am I the only one that finds it ironic the Texas drought worsened after (P)Rick Perry started asking people to pray for rain? Tends to suggest if there is a God, he/she ain't a fan of (P)Rick Perry...

[Little Texan]

Am I the only one that finds it ironic the Texas drought worsened after (P)Rick Perry started asking people to pray for rain? Tends to suggest if there is a God, he/she ain't a fan of (P)Rick Perry...

No...that's why I didn't want that fool praying for our country at his big prayer meet in Houston! Judging by the results of his praying for rain in April, I'd say we're headed for a second Great Depression now that he's prayed for our economy.

[Satan]

I found the whole thing rather HELLarious, if I say so myself

[Jagermeister]

This is what is really funny. Can I pick um or what. Someone change my user name to Prognosticator

Note Bachman is near the bottom.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/149180/Perry-Zooms-Front-Pack-2012-GOP-Nomination.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines%20-%20Politics

Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination

PRINCETON, NJ -- Shortly after announcing his official candidacy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has emerged as rank-and-file Republicans' current favorite for their party's 2012 presidential nomination. Twenty-nine percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide say they are most likely to support Perry, with Mitt Romney next, at 17%.

[Guitar Shark]

Congratulations on picking the obvious.

[Jagermeister]

Congratulations on picking the obvious.

Bullshit. That's pure talent buddy. Perry, Australia, and just about every seat in Congress.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Bullshit. That's pure talent buddy. Perry, Australia, and just about every seat in Congress, nightfall, ice in winter.

many others, i'm sure. lotto numbers for tonite?