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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.
    link please?

    adding more than a million non-farm jobs in a state like texas just seems unrealistic to me...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Link please? Dude, enough with your google education. Look it up.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Link please? Dude, enough with your google education. Look it up.
    no, you said it. now back it up. if you can.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.


    Maybe I'm missing something here but my first thought is- with less than 2% of Americans working as farmers, SHOULDN'T WE WANT FARMING JOBS ADDED TO THE PAYROLL? Of course, as you can guess, my hope would be more jobs on small independent organic farms-- the kind of farms that grow good healthy food as opposed to the fake chemical factory "food" that is making us a physically sick nation.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Yep, America sure needs a religious idiot at the helm. I mean, it's not as if the neo-cons did enough damage under Bush. I'm sure there are plenty more Americans waiting eagerly to be royally fucked by this asshole:


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/au ... -to-prayer


    "Father, our heart breaks for America. We see discord at home. We see fear in the marketplace. We see anger in the halls of government, and as a nation we have forgotten who made us, who protects us, who blesses us, and for that we cry out for your forgiveness," Perry said.

    His rhetorical style is derived from the tent preachers of the Old West, and the crowd stood enthusiastically throughout, responding with amens.

    Much of secular and liberal America watches anxiously at the prospect of another Texas president tied to the Christian evangelical movement. That unease is shared by progressive Christians who fear Perry is identifying with the most conservative church leaders.

    The American Family Association (AFA), which runs a network of 200 radio stations – and which has been labelled a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Centre for its attitude to gay people – contributed an estimated $1m towards the cost of the rally.

    The Cornerstone Church – whose leader, John Hagee, gained notoriety for declaring that Hurricane Katrina was God's vengeance on a sinful New Orleans and suggesting that Jews had brought the Holocaust on themselves – sent about 700 members, travelling from San Antonio by car and bus.

    Elva Spoor said she had come with the Cornerstone delegation so "God can bless us and give us rain and turn the nation back to God". But what about gay people? "God says he loves everyone but he hates the sin," said Spoor. "God says it is an aberration to him."

    ...The event provoked a backlash in Texas, including a lawsuit by atheists aimed at stopping it, charging that Perry was in breach of the separation of politics and religion. On Saturday, a plane flew over the stadium with a banner with the same message about separation of politics and religion. Other Christian churches held alternative prayer meetings on Friday and Saturday.

    Among about 150 protesters outside the stadium was Pastor Katherine Godby. Carrying a poster saying "Hate Is Not A Gospel Value", she expressed sadness that Perry had aligned himself with the AFA.

    Godby, of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fort Worth, said: "We see their portrayal of the gospel as one of exclusion and hatred."

    Jennifer Stephenson, a mother of three from San Antonio carrying a "Christians Against Perry" placard, described the attitude of groups such as the AFA as "un-Christian".

    She was worried that disillusionment with Obama among leftwing voters might open the way for a possible Perry presidency. "I think Perry has a good chance, unfortunately. He is good-looking, brought a lot of jobs to this state and has got a lot of Christians behind him," she said. "The Christian voting bloc is a force to contend with."
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Seems like Chris Hedges may be right on the money:

    Chris Hedges on "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America"
    http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/19/c ... scists_the
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Yep, America sure needs a religious idiot at the helm. I mean, it's not as if the neo-cons did enough damage under Bush. I'm sure there are plenty more Americans waiting eagerly to be royally fucked by this asshole:


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/au ... -to-prayer


    "Father, our heart breaks for America. We see discord at home. We see fear in the marketplace. We see anger in the halls of government, and as a nation we have forgotten who made us, who protects us, who blesses us, and for that we cry out for your forgiveness," Perry said.

    His rhetorical style is derived from the tent preachers of the Old West, and the crowd stood enthusiastically throughout, responding with amens.

    Much of secular and liberal America watches anxiously at the prospect of another Texas president tied to the Christian evangelical movement. That unease is shared by progressive Christians who fear Perry is identifying with the most conservative church leaders.

    The American Family Association (AFA), which runs a network of 200 radio stations – and which has been labelled a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Centre for its attitude to gay people – contributed an estimated $1m towards the cost of the rally.

    The Cornerstone Church – whose leader, John Hagee, gained notoriety for declaring that Hurricane Katrina was God's vengeance on a sinful New Orleans and suggesting that Jews had brought the Holocaust on themselves – sent about 700 members, travelling from San Antonio by car and bus.

    Elva Spoor said she had come with the Cornerstone delegation so "God can bless us and give us rain and turn the nation back to God". But what about gay people? "God says he loves everyone but he hates the sin," said Spoor. "God says it is an aberration to him."

    ...The event provoked a backlash in Texas, including a lawsuit by atheists aimed at stopping it, charging that Perry was in breach of the separation of politics and religion. On Saturday, a plane flew over the stadium with a banner with the same message about separation of politics and religion. Other Christian churches held alternative prayer meetings on Friday and Saturday.

    Among about 150 protesters outside the stadium was Pastor Katherine Godby. Carrying a poster saying "Hate Is Not A Gospel Value", she expressed sadness that Perry had aligned himself with the AFA.

    Godby, of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fort Worth, said: "We see their portrayal of the gospel as one of exclusion and hatred."

    Jennifer Stephenson, a mother of three from San Antonio carrying a "Christians Against Perry" placard, described the attitude of groups such as the AFA as "un-Christian".

    She was worried that disillusionment with Obama among leftwing voters might open the way for a possible Perry presidency. "I think Perry has a good chance, unfortunately. He is good-looking, brought a lot of jobs to this state and has got a lot of Christians behind him," she said. "The Christian voting bloc is a force to contend with."

    Oh goodie, more religious fanaticism. Just what we need. What next? JonestownII?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • arthurdent
    arthurdent Posts: 969
    usamamasan1 wrote:

    "We know the greatest darkness comes just before the morning,"
    Rick Perry, Saturday


    despairdemotivationalposter.jpg
    Rock me Jesus, roll me Lord...
    Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
  • Parachute
    Parachute Posts: 409
    RUN RICK, RUN!!


    Hang in there Usamamasan, you're not as alone as this mob tries to make you think you are.

    Rick Perry will win the Presidency in 2012.

    And another Texas Republican Presdent will chap a lot of asses in this forum.

    It's gonna be so sweet....
  • arthurdent
    arthurdent Posts: 969
    Parachute wrote:
    RUN RICK, RUN!!


    Hang in there Usamamasan, you're not as alone as this mob tries to make you think you are.

    Rick Perry will win the Presidency in 2012.

    And another Texas Republican Presdent will chap a lot of asses in this forum.

    It's gonna be so sweet....

    you're going to have so many tea partiers splitting the conservative vote in the primary that you'll be LUCKY to end up with Mitt Romney.
    Rock me Jesus, roll me Lord...
    Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
  • Parachute
    Parachute Posts: 409
    arthurdent wrote:
    Parachute wrote:
    RUN RICK, RUN!!


    Hang in there Usamamasan, you're not as alone as this mob tries to make you think you are.

    Rick Perry will win the Presidency in 2012.

    And another Texas Republican Presdent will chap a lot of asses in this forum.

    It's gonna be so sweet....

    you're going to have so many tea partiers splitting the conservative vote in the primary that you'll be LUCKY to end up with Mitt Romney.


    Care to make it interesting? What's the policy on political wagers for Pearl Jam gear?
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    My $5 for your NEOCON set.... :lol: shipping included

    At a time of economic turmoil across the country, Perry need only point to his home state. The Texas jobless rate was 7.7 percent in April, a sizable improvement over the national rate of 9.1 percent.


    this is what America needs.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.
    still waiting for a source on this....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.
    still waiting for a source on this....
    The largest percentage of jobs has been added in the oil & gas industry. Which is great for a lot of people but for most of us ordinary Texans, nothing to write home about.

    We still have foreclosures, unemployment, crappy schools, the highest percentage of people without health insurance, you name it, we're at the bottom of the scrapheap.

    What I find interesting is that Perry is most popular with people OUTSIDE Texas. I'd say take Gov. Goodhair and welcome if the prospect of him as prez wasn't so depressing.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    edited August 2011
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.
    still waiting for a source on this....

    What's a source going to do once it is proven? You will still have your blinders on. i don't see the point. You need to do some homweork pal.
    But if you really want to know my source, its the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ever heard of them? Look it up. Now, 5 minutes in the corner for you.

    Texas' non-farm employment grew from 9,542,400 in January 2001, when Perry took office, to 10,395,800 in June 2010 — an increase of 853,400 or 8.9 percent. Big-government California simultaneously lost 827,800 jobs.
    i am sure you will find the difference if you look at the monthly numbers since June 2010. But that will require some work on your part. I am done teaching.

    For seven years running, CEOs polled by Chief Executive magazine have rated Texas first in business development and job growth. Texas boasts 58 Fortune 500 companies — more than any other state.

    As America's No. 1 exporting state, Texas shipped $206.6 billion in goods abroad last year, composing 16 percent of America's $1.28 trillion in exports.

    Texas taxes neither personal incomes nor capital gains, and Perry proposed a 2010 constitutional amendment to require two-thirds super-majorities to legislate tax hikes.Perry advised "a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable" as well as "a legal system that doesn't allow for over-suing." Thus, Perry signed groundbreaking "loser pays" tort-reforms and medical-litigation rules that caused malpractice-insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors since have flooded Texas. cough cough....healthcare anyone?
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    More than 1 million jobs have been added to nonfarm payrolls in Texas since Perry took office.



    This is what America needs.
    still waiting for a source on this....

    "display this post"

    please, hold your breath.
    i knew you couldn't back it up.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,825
    WOOT!
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    wrong. see my post above. It just troubles me that you can't do it yourself.

    Bureau of Labor statistics pal. Maybe you should back off this thread now, considering you are not ready to comment. Consider yourself served.

    oh, i did it for you. here is the difference from the 850k up unitl June 2010.

    Texas, aided by a robust private sector, gained 225,200 nonfarm jobs from June 2010 to
    June 2011

    Now what say you? The jobs aren't good...they are all in the oil industry. :lol: Now go on about how I don't repsond to direct questions.
    WOOT!
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    wrong. see my post above. It just troubles me that you can't do it yourself.

    Bureau of Labor statistics pal. Maybe you should back off this thread now, considering you are not ready to comment. Consider yourself served.

    oh, i did it for you. here is the difference from the 850k up unitl June 2010.

    Texas, aided by a robust private sector, gained 225,200 nonfarm jobs from June 2010 to
    June 2011

    Now what say you? The jobs aren't good...they are all in the oil industry. :lol: Now go on about how I don't repsond to direct questions.
    WOOT!
    i asked for a link. i want to know exactly where you are getting your numbers from. i can't find the numbers you are posting on the numerous bls pages. you tell me to educate myself, so i want to read about it.

    i remember the first point i scored in a debate :roll:
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    edited August 2011
    look it up. Besides, you asked for a source. I forgot your information always comes from "links". ;)
    I am moving on
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