How Much Worse Would Obama's Economy Look Without Texas?

Jobs created...oh I think we should blame George W. Bush!!

Dubya's a Texan ain't he?

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, C in C

1st St. Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

and the New York & LA elites mock Texans as hicks and cowboys.

"and the New York & LA elites mock Texans as hicks and cowboys.
Posted by: Fred at July 8, 2011 5:10 PM "

That's because deep down,some of these entitled socialists realize hicks,rednecks, and cowboys actually CREATE jobs,so they are happy they can steal more from them.

"and the New York & LA elites mock Texans as hicks and cowboys.
Posted by: Fred at July 8, 2011 5:10 PM "

That's because deep down,some of these entitled socialists realize hicks,rednecks, and cowboys actually CREATE jobs,so they are happy they can steal more from them

Can you say "President Rick Perry"?

There's a state that actually created jobs? I'd keep that one close to my chest Texas,once Obama catches wind of this....

The EPA's new standards could put a dent in it. In short regulations that did not apply last year now do. They come into effect next year and could decimate the coal power industry.
An attempt to wreck the Texan economy as Mr. Perry comes into the race?
Why do I think things like that?

It must be all that giant-sized toast.

But seriously, when one is focussed more on others than saving one's own anatomy, things can work out. Private sector jobs are for the greater good. Public sector jobs just think they are.

I forsee the day that a state tells the EPA
"Y'all can shove it." Sometime in the coming 12 months.

Oh boy I hope you're right Kathy. I became a fan after watching him handle Eliot Spitzer on CNN. Perry said something like.. "you're trying to put me in a corner, but I don't corner so good."

No wonder so many are moving there. If Texas is smart they will ban Californians. Why? for the simple reason they will turn them into another California. Its in there nature, hardwired.

Kate, If only that could happen.

"President Rick Perry" has nice ring to it.

It may be a race between Texas, Arizona and Utah which of them tells the feds to push off first. Maybe they can form up with New Mexico and Nevada, become their own United States of F- Y'all Lefties!

In fairness to the rest of the country, Texas does produce the one indispensable commodity that can't be off-shored and the rest of the country can't do without. Fuel. That said, all those jobs were not created in the oil patch.

A tonne of data centres are located in Texas for some reason.

As others have said, this is a perfect campaign slogan for Perry:

"We both followed W, only one of us is creating jobs."

It helps to have oil.

But, give Obama's 'green energy' stuff long enough, to penalize a plus, Texas will wither and die.

Our lefties in Canada want the same thing to happen to Alberta.

Texas lacks the restrictive zoning laws that pushed the housing bubble so much in other states, so it was spared that horror. Perry is still lousy though. He's an authoritarian who actually had cops arrest drunk people in bars to prevent them from driving.

@Kate

Bear in mind that Congress told EPA to 'shove it' a little while back when the EPA tried to regulate themselves even greater power.

As I recall, the EPA ignored Congress. I'm not sure they're any more likely to listen to the states.

It's becoming something of a trend - the FCC ignored Congress when they passed net neutrality regulations, as well.

It'd be nice to get some conservatives in Congress that would remove these power-hungry and, quite frankly, unconstitutional regulatory agencies. It'd also be nice to own a fire-breathing two-headed unicorn that crapped diamonds, but ah well.

On a side note, I think the rallying cry of the next American revolution is going to be: "No regulation without representation".

America must rid itself of this Oprah planted DUD. This man child couldn't run a successful breast enhancement company. Well done Oprah and Jesse, you gave America a black president, but a really stupid one, be proud, if you endorse failure. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, even Bill Cosby would be light years ahead of this Manchurian Soros president!

No chance perry wins the nomination. He's made too many enemies with the GOP establishment. He delivers no swing states and the kiss of death - he used to be al gores texas campaign manager.

Ps- bs on the lookout for a Christie to announce in sept or October. That would change everything.

"Manchurian Soros president". That is really good and nails it to a T!

@ Gord, "he used to be al gores texas campaign manager". Ouch, is that true and if so that does not speak well for him. Hope Christie cleans up much of the mess in NJ first.

Christie says he doesn't have enough experience and he's not running.

After a statement like that, no way can he run...this time.

Dirtman: several sources including SE Cupp say he is indeed going to announce in the fall.

He'll have to eat his words.

But he'll make a great president.

Sorry Gord, Christie is not the man. He is soft on immigration, refuses to take a stand on Obamacare, and what about his position on cap and trade? Christie has stood up to the unions, but is not the man for the job right now. Interesting thing is the right man for the job is not a man after all.

Jay: he delivers new jersey and likely PA and Ohio. Obama cannot win without all three.

No guarantee that romney builds anninsurmanoutable lead or any combination of other things, but Christie in the race changes everything - not the least of which is giving the house and senate gop some backbone.

I agree with Jay here, for all the reasons he pointed out.

In addition, the cynic in me wonders if Christie would ever have taken a stand on fiscal policy if the Democrats in the New Jersey state legislature hadn't forced him to.

As I recall, (and I'm trying to remember from a couple of articles I read quite a while back) shortly after Christie was elected, New Jersey Democrats decided to - essentially - retaliate by doing an about face and refusing to pass the tax hikes they'd intended to cover the state budget.

Obviously, I'm not going to argue that refusing to raise taxes is a bad thing, but what this did was dump a massive deficit in Christie's lap, as well as the responsibility for making equally massive cuts to fix it. Then, of course, they could gleefully blame him for all of the cuts.

To his great credit, he rose to the challenge, and some of his confrontations with reporters and union members have been magnificent.

That said, I'm not sure that I'm quite ready to trust him with running the country - or that I ever will be. Again, the cynic in me wonders if Christie's continuing fiscal conservatism is more about riding a wave of populism, or honest conservative values. Mind you, I'm not saying it isn't - perhaps it's more a sign of how jaded I am with politicians in general than anything else.

Honestly, there's very few people I'd really like to see in the White House right now - and none of them are running. While I'd prefer either to Chris Christie, I have some reservations about both Rick Perry (mostly anecdotal evidence from Texan conservatives) and Michelle Bachmann (fewer here, she could end some of them by firing Ed Rollins).

The three people I'd most like to see in the White House today are: Thomas Sowell, Paul Ryan, or Sarah Palin.

In my happy place, after I've crossed two wings of my giant gold-plated mansion to turn on my 72-inch plasma, the news is declaring that the Sowell/Ryan ticket just won by a landslide.

Sorry if I rambled a bit - it's late and I'm tired. :)

Rick Perry was hand picked by Bildenburg so they can control both sides. And yes he was Gores right hand man, just a dem disguised as a RINO.

RON PAUL is the answer if you don't want one world government.

Your so effin stupid you cant even spell Bilderberg.

Wow... just... wow.

Is there a group of devoted Ron Paul supporters patrolling the country - in a vehicle painted to look like the Scooby Doo Mystery Van no doubt - performing tests to ensure that anyone who supports him is batshit insane?

Because, I mean, it'd explain a lot.

Watch for Texas to separate within the next few years.

Well, the story gets even better. Over half the folks that fled to Texas from Louisiana after Katrina never came back; new life and new jobs and all that.

The mayor of New Orleans actually implored them to come back at least once; welfare payments into the city had more than halved:)

Ah, and such fine jobs they are:

Texas has by far the largest number of employees working at or below the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour in 2010) compared to any state, according to a BLS report.

In 2010, about 550,000 Texans were working at or below minimum wage, or about 9.5 percent of all workers paid by the hour in the state. Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers, while California had among the fewest (less than 2 percent). The state with the second-highest number of minimum wage workers was New York, with 264,000 (or 6.4 percent of all hourly workers in the state).

From 2007 to 2010, the number of minimum wage workers in Texas rose from 221,000 to 550,000, an increase of nearly 150 percent.

- see Table 2, bls.gov/ro6/fax/minwage_tx.pdf