Re: Perry.......The Enigma If the left fears him so much, he might actually turn out OK. I wouldn't vote for him, though.
Re: Perry.......The Enigma Then he's finished. If a crackpot candidate can't attract your vote, he isn't going to make it. barfo
Re: Others attacking Perry for his "scientific" views... Barack Obama goes (went) to church. And he's just one of many.
Re: Others attacking Perry for his "scientific" views... Sure, the old "Obama did it too" defense. barfo
I could've said George Washington, or JFK, or just about any non-Jeffersonian president in history, but I didn't think Maris needed more than that to show his point wasn't a good one.
Re: Perry.......The Enigma Like him or not, Texas is a good contrast to what's been going on everywhere else. Jobs are created there at a higher rate than anywhere else. They have no income tax. They're allowed to exploit the natural resources in their state. They're absorbing a lot of immigrants (to the state) and they keep on doing well. They have a balanced budget. It's true they increased spending on all sorts of things when times were good, but when the times aren't so good, they cut spending to a level they can afford. When times were good, they increased the size of government. They increased education spending 5x faster than the student population was growing over the past 10 years. They had one non-teacher per district for every actual teacher in their school districts. Only $.48 out of every $1 was being spent on actual instruction. There' that wonderful Keynesian govt. spending multiplier at work! So they cut education spending and the lefties go "boo hoo." When govt. is spending $.98 out of every dollar on instruction and they have to cut education spending, then let's talk about whether there should be taxes or increases to avoid it. And barfo, it seems to me the difference in what we want are that: You seem to like 10% unemployment, 990 weeks of unemployment benefits, 40% of the economy spent on govt. (even though $.48 is the value you get from it), $46,000 of government debt per man/woman/child, prolonged periods of poor GDP growth, etc. It all leads to massive dependency on govt., which you seem to like and want. No thanks. My version is 10% unemployment for a couple of years, we all suffer the belly ache from overeating when times were good, but then we have a period of 20 years where we create 40M jobs with the wealth and prosperity that goes along with a nation enjoying success. There is a need for government, but as limited as possible and as completely out of the way of the great people of this nation as imaginable. I think we should take one more lesson from Texas. Their legislature meets for less than 6 months, and that's every 2 years.
most of those new "jobs" are for various sectors of state and federal government, the private sector has actually seen contraction in Texas. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2011/08/16/how-rick-perry-created-jobs-in-texas Pretty funny that he's pointing to his record in Texas of job creation and deriding government spending, when it's been government spending fueling Texas's job creation STOMP
Re: Who Is Rick Perry? Nevertheless, while you don't know me, therefore, having no apparent basis for that remark, I'll still disregard your seeming ignorance. I'm cool like that.
Re: Who Is Rick Perry? wasn't a remark about you or your personality. I thought you were joking about it being the best read in the history of mankind, so I said it must be crap...ie., the best read in history is crap...ha ha.
