Does it make you sick as I am watching the President in Texas today.

[busterbrown]

Cruz and Perry two of the biggest scumbags in the state want Obama to take their concepts of economic development back to Washington so the whole Country could learn how they did it.

"But the devil is in the detail. Unemployment is stubbornly stuck at about 8%, below the national level but still leaving one million Texans out of work. In 2010 half a million people in the state earned no more than the minimum wage of $7.25 (£4.47) an hour. Texas, for all its glittering metropolises, has the joint highest percentage, along with Mississippi, of hourly paid workers earning the minimum wage or less."

This is piece from the Guardian written in 2011, however if you want to check most of the numbers
reflecting the disparity between the rich and middle class and poor are still spot on..

Shove this where the sun don’t shine... Mr.Perry and Cruz..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/rick-perry-economic-mirage

[demwing]

1. In all fairness, what else can they say?

"On good days, we're just clueless, on bad days we're also dangerous dickheads. Welcome to Texas on Republicans-put that in your pipe and smoke it, Obama!"

[Zen Democrat]

2. The Texas Miracle is simply this: There was no housing bubble to destroy people because ...

in Texas it was, is, and forever will be against the law to borrow money off the equity in a home. Period. That's the foundation for Texas's economy ... the bottom never fell out.

[busterbrown]

3. And so your telling me everything in Texas is fine because of this?

"There is little doubt Texas has a working environment that makes corporations very happy. The low-wage economy provides a cheap and willing workforce. The lack of strict regulation, especially in areas such as the environment and construction permits, is extremely attractive to companies looking to slash their bottom line. Or to engage in practices that are frowned on elsewhere."

This is only one point...
Your point may be true, but there is a lot of bad stuff going on down there...

[okaawhatever]

6. Their regular mortgages are also completely different. They have homestead laws that change

the foreclosure process as well.

[NoPasaran]

16. Home equity loans have been legal in Texas since 1998

Interesting theory you have, contradicted by inconvenient facts.

[busterbrown]

17. His explanation sounded weird to me//

Thanks for the fact check...

[ZRT2209]

4. Texas has the most uninsured children, the worst graduation rates...

many problems Perry refuses to address or acknowledge

[okaawhatever]

5. Alot of Perry's policies to create jobs won't show the effect it had on the state for some time. He

gave away alot of long term property tax breaks for low paying jobs. I read an in depth article about it, but i've been unable to find the source. It compared the lost property taxes to increased wage taxes. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, but his was basically a give away. I know he's figuring he will be out of office when the school funding shortage starts, but he's trading short-term headlines for the benefit of tea partiers at the expense of all the citizens in that community.

[otohara]

7. I Don't See Texas Going Blue

since they elected that douchebag Cruz.
Austin and El Paso are tiny oasis in that big red state.

[Paladin]

9. Obama took Austin, El Paso, San Antonio, Dallas and Houston in 2012.

Over 3.3 million votes.

[Doctor_J]

11. that's a stupid meme propagated by Texas dems.

[Zoeisright]

8. Anyone in Texas who votes for those turds

deserves what they get. Unfortunately, repuke stupidity hurts others more often.

[Doctor_J]

10. The president refuses to confront the republicans

As ever.

[busterbrown]

12. Has anyone ever told him it makes him appear weak and ineffective....???

[Doctor_J]

14. He doesn't seem to care

Either he's the worst politician in US history, or a republican that we were tricked into voting for so that all those things we wouldn't have let Smirk get away with can now be done with "bipartisan" support.

[Whisp]

13. bullshit

heal thine sickness, physician.

[Doctor_J]

15. How very informative

and well-reasoned. BTW I am not a physician.