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November 4th, 2011 | 
Author: Prison Planet.com » Rick Perry Would Back Israeli Attack On Iran
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In Rick Perry's Speeches, a Growing Anti-Washington Theme …
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As the Cain controversy explodes, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is sticking to economic themes.
I Got This One Wrong! Big Time!
Will Perry Be The Republican Nominee And Then Beat Obama?
The somewhat obvious answer is, most likely, "Yes" to both questions.
But Why?
Dan Henninger categorically says what he thinks the U.S. can learn from Texas
The Texas Economy Is Huge
Rick Perry says that Texas is the most successful state in America and he’s right because Texas’ economic output even exceeds Mexico’s and Australia’s and is close to that of India’s.
Rick Perry has been governor of Texas for nearly eleven years, but does the logic of politics lead us to conclude that the governor of the nation’s most successful state is, ipso facto, the best man to be president of the economically gasping United States?
Texas, unlike California, isn’t America’s most beautiful state, and through October this year parts of Texas had 90 days of 100+ temperatures, yet companies and people keep moving into the high heat of Texas.
From Dan Henniger’s Wonderland
In a preview of his "Wonderland" column, Dan Henninger discusses what he thinks the U.S. can learn from Texas.
In 1990, one of the world’s biggest companies, Exxon Mobil, left New York City for Dallas. Exxon’s former CEO, Lee Raymond, says the move in part was indeed about costs and New York State’s notoriously overbearing tax authority. But it was also about working amid a culture of competence.
"It’s just the attitude in Texas of getting things done and doing them well".
This is about something beyond low taxes and no unions:
"In Texas the people tend to be farmers or individual businessmen, and they have this attitude".
"We have to make do with what we have and work together to get things done and survive".
"It’s can-do and that attitude permeates everything there".
Alan Boeckmann, until recently CEO of Fluor Corp., which is an engineering and construction firm, says:
"Regulatory and legal hassles pushed Fluor out of California. Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley. California had its own version. There were constant class-action suits over Fluor’s benefits. It could have been settled, but not in California. That’s how the game is played there".
And when word of the 2006 move got out.
"California made no attempt to keep us. In Texas, things started to happen quickly, without us initiating them. The Irving Chamber of Commerce did orientation sessions for employees and spouses, even helping with new-house searches, and a street was renamed a street ‘Fluor Drive’, which in California or the Northeast would be laughable".
Smaller Fish Too
Ed Trevis, who is a smaller fish, is also happy.
Ed is a California-educated Brazilian immigrant and tech entrepreneur who operated in Silicon Valley for 25 years and moved Corvalent Corp. to Austin for similar reasons.
He had to hire a firm just to do California’s compliance.
"In California you are always doing something wrong".
"What I found in Texas is that from the standpoint of running a business, cost of living, education, the labor pool, quality of life, it just blew other states out of the water. I heard this constantly. People enjoy being in business in Texas".
More Points Of View
Technology consultant Bob Barker says while taking a visitor around the nearby hills,
"Austin may have more Ph.Ds driving taxis than any city in the country".
Austin’s famed population of big and small technology companies has suffered layoffs.
But Barker says:
"No one wants to leave. They stay, plugging into Austin’s numerous business-support networks. In Austin you discover a primary reason beneath Texas’ success. It’s about competition plus collaboration. It seems everyone in Texas high-tech knows everyone, and if they can help each other, they will".
David Booth, who moved Dimensional Fund Advisors’s headquarters to Austin from Santa Monica in 2008, puts Rick Perry’s role in perspective:
"He understands his job isn’t to get in the middle of everything".
Fluor’s Alan Boeckmann seconded that, and Mr. Booth and others said this is also true of the Texas lieutenant governor, its attorney general and the comptroller.
"They are very supportive of business",
says Lee Raymond,
"In the sense of moving things along. If there is a rock in the road, they want to know what they can do to move it out of the way".
Mr. Booth says:
"This isn’t merely the ‘pro-business’ bias of a Rick Perry or any other governor. Texas’ pro-business bias goes back about 175 years and never died. It’s just that they believe in the whole Horatio Alger myth down here. It’s hard to understand if you haven’t lived here".
Texas Or California?
Obama chose the California model and not the Texas one and look where America’s at!
The Texas mentality would be the same with or without Perry but he gave it free rein rather than bridling it, and it worked.
So This much Should Be Obvious
Texas, not California had better be the American future.
And somewhere inside of him, Rick Perry of Texas understands this distinction.
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Living on words alone: Will Obama be a one term President?
Will Obama be a one term President? Now that the GOP has stopped tearing itself apart in its 'who can believe the most impossible things before breakfast' contest – otherwise known as its Mormon v Creationist primary – it is …
Obama's ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Political insurgency
The mainstream media are now starting ever so slowly to criticize Obama, not because they have suddenly discovered that there is an empty suit sitting in the Oval Office, but because they are desperately trying to regain some …
Publish Date: 09/18/2011 12:55
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40426
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
The Obama Administration (T.S. Eliot)
Obama’s Response To The Ongoing Crisis?
Our president is going on vacation.
He’s waiting until September to make a speech.
He’s coming back with another stimulus plan.
Even though he’s already admitted that there weren’t those shovel-ready jobs, he’s going to announce plans for roads and construction projects again.
He acknowledges that employers are struggling but he’s proposing another temporary payroll tax cut.
His big news is that they’ll be an even grander deal on the debt with huge new tax hikes!
Why September?
“I think the reason he’s taking the time to wait for his next speech on the economy is that he frankly doesn’t know what to do. I mean, he hasn’t spent his life in the private sector. He doesn’t understand that jobs come and go and he’s looking for help". – Mitt Romney
Campaign Rhetoric?
Certainly in part, but in this case Romney has aptly articulated President Obama’s problem because Obama is clearly in over his head.
The economy is worsening, his approval rating is in free-fall and now the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) is poised to demand something impossible i.e. create jobs for blacks only.
What’s Being Considered By The Hollow Men?
Tax cuts for companies that hire workers.
New spending for roads and construction.
Other measures that would target the long-term unemployed such as providing mortgage relief for struggling homeowners, that could come through executive action.
Making the case that short-term spending can lead to long-term savings.
The Merits Of Short Term Spending?
White House allies, many of whom have pushed Obama in recent weeks to focus on job creation, said Wednesday that the president faces a stiff political test in explaining to voters the merits of short-term spending and long-term reduction of the federal deficit.
And of course it would be "a stiff political test" because it already didn’t work and voters inherently understand that promises of cuts down the road coupled with immediate spending sprees are precisely how we got into this situation.
A senior Republican Senate aide dismissed the president’s approach as,
"The same as always. Investments in union-friendly projects now, promises of austerity later".
And Speaker of the House John Boehner (R- Ohio) put out a statement yesterday pointing out the contrast between the Republican plans to spur private-sector growth and the president’s focus on government spending and borrowing:
“To get our economy moving, what the American people need from the President is leadership and serious solutions that reflect a true change in his approach to our economy and the role of government. We welcome him to our ongoing efforts to help create jobs, and look forward to seeing a detailed plan next month. It is my hope the President will offer specific proposals that depart from his previous policies and allow us to find common ground and work together to put Americans back to work. In the meantime, Republicans will continue to advance solutions that will reduce economic uncertainty and create a better environment for private-sector job creation".
Will Obama Be A One Term President?
Obama is trapped by his base, and by his own ideology that demands an endless cycle of spending, borrowing and taxing and it would now seem that the Congressional Black Caucus is about to put a final nail in his coffin.
Blacks make up around 12.6% of Americas population and right now around 86% percent of them still approve of the president’s performance.
Obama’s popularity is hovering around 40% right now, so just imagine what will happen if he loses much of the Black vote and most likely much of the Latino one too.
