So much for Rick Perry’s jobs miracle in the Lone Star State:
The unemployment rate in Texas rose to 8.5 percent in August, putting the state in the middle of the pack nationally and undercutting GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s argument that he is the best job-creator of the governors nationwide. The numbers were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
When cornered by the inconvenient facts Perry’s office blamed it all on Obama but that should come as no surprise: Rick Perry’s jobs miracle is a fraud from beginning to end. What little difference there was between the national employment average and Texas was the direct result of a 1) state government hiring binge fueled by federal stimulus funds Perry happily accepted and then bashed, and 2) luring low paying employers from other states by turning Texas into the equivalent of an Asian labor camp.
Fortunately the facts and the national media are starting to catch on to his schemes with a vengeance and with plenty of time left to prevent Perry from screwing the nation like he has screwed the people of Texas.
The vast majority of jobs “created” in Texas during the past couple of years are minimum-wage, no benefits McJobs.
An addendum to my previous post: I was referring to non-governmental jobs.
Which points out WHY the unemployment level rose in Texas: the original, too-small Federal “stimulus” is running out.
Bill White, warrior against hurricanes, why did you lose to Perry? I drove old ladies to early voting to get you ousted.
Perry has nothing to run on. Nothing! I have voted against him every time I could and spent a lot of my time driving old people to the polls from their nursing homes.
My brother told me that some highway upgrade in the Austin area has a sign that it was paid for in part by stimulus funds. He said Perry had the signs removed. Have you heard about this?