Fun Facts about Perry from Jim Hightower/Alternet...

[rasputin1952]

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Here's a particularly revealing stat that the Perry pixies don't want us to see: On his watch as governor, Texas added more minimum wage jobs than all the other 49 states combined. More than half a million Texans now work for $7.25 an hour or less. He can brag that he's brought Texans down into a tie with Mississippi for the highest percentage of workers reduced to poverty pay.

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One out of six employed Texans are now teachers, police officers, highway engineers, military personnel or other government workers -- and many of these jobs were created with the federal money that Perry-the-candidate now loudly denounces. Indeed, he's running around ranting about President Obama's stimulus program, but he gladly accepted the third highest amount of stimulus funds taken by the 50 states. There's his miracle.

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State and federal taxpayers financed his college education at Texas A&M, even giving him the extracurricular opportunity to be a cheerleader. Upon graduation, he spent four years on the federal payroll as an Air Force transport pilot who never did any combat duty.



Then, in 1984, Perry hit the mother lode of government pay by moving into elected office -- squatting there for 27 years and counting. In addition to getting regular paychecks from taxpayers for nearly three decades as a state representative, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor, he also receives platinum-level health care coverage and a generous pension from the state, plus $10,000 a month for renting a luxury suburban home, a covey of political and personal aides and even a publicly paid subscription to Food & Wine magazine.

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Lot's more at: http://www.alternet.org/story/152316/how_rick_perry_has_been_on_the_public_dole_his_whole_life?akid=7528.28683.REloGS&rd=1&t=6




This clown is an incredible stooge, anyone that would vote Perry has to have some serious dysfunctional synapses.

[liberal N proud]

1. Many republicans and teabaggers vote against their own interest all the time.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. wish we had a good campaign connection and we could start

amassing ammunition like this for Obama. It would also be interesting to research
how Perry rationalizes these things...so we could counteract.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. I wish DU could do this..set up a forum for campaign ideas and

good comeback ideas. I remember when Kerry was running and hit
obstacles...the best ideas for what he "should have done or should have said"
were right here on these pages.

[Hatchling]

4. OMG, Another Cheerleader?! nt