How Rick Perry created the "Texas Miracle"

(CBS News) 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is expected to join the GOP presidential race Saturday, is the longest serving governor in the nation. He won re-election last year by a wide margin. He's 61 years old, married to his childhood sweetheart, and graduated from Texas A&M.

Perry is going to have a big effect on this race. CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews looks at his record on the Texas economy.

It's his most important accomplishment and and one Texas-sized claim.

"Texas continues to lead the nation in job creation," Gov. Rick Perry once said.

Some call this the "Texas Miracle." But with Perry as governor, the state has added hundreds of thousands more jobs than any state by far. And in a country desperate for jobs, this issue -- and Perry's claim that he deserves the credit -- sets him apart.

"We're hiring, we can't hire people fast enough," said Jeff Brown of California-based EA video games. He said the company is adding 300 jobs in Austin, Texas, partly because of low costs, but also because of Perry's three trips to persuade EA to move.

"They've come to us specifically in the company," said Brown, "and said, 'What do you need tell us what you need,' and for the most part they follow through on it."

Perry calls his formula simple. "This isn't rocket science," he once said. "You keep the taxes relatively low, you have a regulatory climate that is fair."

But Perry also got lucky when high oil prices boosted energy-related jobs. His critics point to another figure: Texas' high unemployment rate at 8.2 percent is one point below the national rate that is daunting President Obama.

Perry's bedrock pledge to never raise taxes also had a reckoning this year, when his budget faced a $27-billion shortfall. With taxes not an option, Texas cut deeply into health care and so deeply into education, some 49,000 teachers are being laid off.

Rick Perry to run for president, spokesman says
Perry takes heat on record, campaign tactics

"Do you see a Texas miracle?" Andrews asked Rachel Zertuche, a veteran middle school teacher

"No, I see a Texas tragedy."

Zertuche called her layoff the cost of low taxes.

"Realize that your child will be in a classroom that will have a larger number of students," she said. "Your child will have less individual time with their teachers, so everything comes at a price."

Perry now enters this race as both a Tea Party and evangelical conservative -- a man so religious he once asked Texans to pray for three days of rain. He will need to push the job issue to appeal to voters in the middle.

[ge205]

8.2 percent unemployment is not something to brag about.

[ToolMangler1]

Perry calls his formula simple. "This isn't rocket science," he once said. "You keep the taxes relatively low, you have a regulatory climate that is fair."
"Perry's bedrock pledge to never raise taxes also had a reckoning this year, when his budget faced a $27-billion shortfall. With taxes not an option, Texas cut deeply into health care and so deeply into education, some 49,000 teachers are being laid off."


Perry needs to be reminded that Jesus said "Inasmuch as you have done unto one of these, 'the least of my brethren', You have done it unto me".... You see, He has done it to an entire 'State'...

"He is nothing but a Texas born, Bush...."

[borysd]

GOP dream ticket Rockefeller/ Rothschild!

[NamVet65]

Another unbalanced religious fanatic governor from Texas?? Using God and Jesus to suck people in is a GOP tactic. Jesus warned against false prophets. Bush caused the deaths of huge numbers of U S troops and Iraq civilians. Perry calls a prayer meeting for the "sheep". Cool aid for the fools......drink up. Vote for big money kick the middle class and poor while they are down.

[bbglow]

Somewhere, somehow, the republicans will need to explain how current exceptional corporate profits are not translating into American job creation and how additional corporate tax cuts are going to translate into anything other than more corporate profits. The company that eliminated my job is expanding operations in China and creating jobs in China. They now have three offices in China compared to one office when I was laid-off. These jobs are service jobs related to the construction industry and somehow, these Chinese based offices, besides contributing to work within China are also contributing to work being performed on American soil, however, the reverse is not apparently allowed. My only conclusion is that Corporate America has abandoned the American worker for less expensive labor abroad despite the fact that the American worker contributed heavily to their initial and existing wealth. Or, is it also political? Are they withholding job creation in America because they don't want a democratic administration to receive credit for putting an end to the too-big-to-fail initiated recession. Could the republicans kindly provide an answer? Is the media afraid to fully examine this destructive republican angle? P.S. The American worker understands it is nonsense to claim that fear to invest in America is a result of uncertainty. So that some can expect more, others must accept less. Would someone kindly inform the republicans that their mantra is nonsense?

[Danize]

Basically, economic gravity created the Texas miracle. Businesses move there for the same reason they move to less developed countries, a work force on a lower wage scale with few union backed human rights.

None of the Republican candidates are qualified to lead a complex superpower. They are all parochial and backward looking, truly men of small minds.

Ha, I can see why influential Republicans tried to get Jeb Bush to run. Yeah, he's stuck with a negative name for many, but he's the Bush son that his family thought of as the natural one to run for president. Listen to him speak. He talks like a normal person, not with a fake good ole boy twang like George. He did much better as a university student, didn't coast along on a C average. He never bankrupted businesses like number two did. He was never a coke snortin' hard drinkin' reprobate like George was. He never went off the deep end with religion. In short, America, for some unfathomable reason, elected the idiot brother instead of the bright up and comer who should have been elected. If his talents could be highlighted, he could stand a chance of winning. He's the only one of this bunch to be trusted with the levers of war at his fingertips. Repubs: draft Jeb!

[Ceres6]

It is clear that by using terms as the "Texas Miracle," it means that the nationwide brainwashing campaign paid by the Republican Party has started. I am sure that the successful brainwashing they practiced to reelect George Bush, this time is not going to work. The American people now associate the Republican party with greed and self-serving interests. If they notice that some programs sponsored by Obama have a chance to succeed, they prefer to sabotage them and pushed all Americans to poverty.

[starving1968-3]

by alwayskickedoff August 14, 2011 5:30 AM EDT
Wonder where the "major news networks" were to vet Obama when he ran?

Dumb question I guess ........

Dem = Free Pass







You idiots were more concerned with flag pins, Rev Wright, and his birth certificate than you were in the actual issues when he was addressing them.

Your ignorance cannot be blamed on Barack Obama. Sorry.

[WhttevrrWorks]

What is wrong with Rick Perry?
1.) Rick Perry's "new" apostolic church movement is more formally known as the 'New Apostolic Reformation' founded by Charles Peter Wagner (born 1930). As Mr. Wagner is still alive, and this reformation is considerably less then a century old, it is a considerably new movement.

And of course they look to bring about the rapture. Now, I am not a religious scholar. However, I am pretty sure revelations was predisposed to be occurring in an unknown time frame. Also, man can not bring it about. Man can not predict it. And, anyone saying otherwise, is a heretic.

So, perhaps it might be dangerous to have someone as "The Commander In Chief" who believes him and his can bring about the end of the world as a means to bring "The Rapture". These guys are willing to destroy us all in order to bring Jesus back.

That's scary.

2.) uhmmm... see # 1.) That is scary enough to preclude any other need to say what is wrong with Rick Perry.

[minniesucks]

You mean like obama believing in black liberation theology?? And his hateful 'pastor' despising America and whitey, and being best chums w/ louis farrakan?? You libs are SO predictable!! Try another straw dog argument. That one didn't work.

[WhttevrrWorks]

took me a bit... but I found an answer for minniesucks, it's not my words it's a quote of a quote, and I have to edit out 1800 characters, but it makes sense:
Would you rather have Obama observe Jim Crow customs and practices? Should Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have waited for the segregationists to desegregate the buses in Montgomery? Should Dr. Leon H. Sullivan have waited for the government of South Africa to end Apartheid?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is clearly among the most aticulate orators of Black Liberation Theology. Polite and methodic requests for integration of education, hospitality, public transportation, and restaurants are the hallmark of his oratory. Non violent protest is the banner of his activities...

During the 1963 March On Washington security was provided by the Nation Of Islam. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might be alive today had the Nation Of Islam continued to provide his security. Minister Louis Farrakhan is similarly articulate and polite in his oratory.

... Identification of disparaties between Black America and White America is unsettling. White America and Mainstream America are uncomfortable with the tone of Reverend Wright's presentation. Black America and some Mainstream Americans are well aware of the economic differences between Black neighborhoods and White neighborhoods.

White America would rather dwell upon Reverend Jeremiah Wright's breech of Jim Crow custom. He should not be "angry" about how Black America, White America, and Mainstream Americans go about their daily lives amid catastrophic economic and social disaster.

Malcolm X was similarly abrasive in his articulate oratory. Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Malcolm X deliver "inlammatory" "incendiary" messages.

Have any of these articulate orators above advocated violent overhrow ot the government?

... Remember the Civil Rights Movement and the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, NJ?

...

Jim Crow requires both whites and blacks to perform acts which demonstrate a superior-inferior dynamic. Bus drivers in Montgomery Alabama were required to fill seats for white passengers from front to rear and colored passengers from rear to front. When a white passenger boards the bus and all seats are filled, a colored person must stand and surrender their seat to the white passenger. Rosa Parks' refusal required the bus driver to call police to arrest Mrs Parks for her failure to comply. A colored person was required to step off the curb into the street to allow a white person to pass on the sidewalk. It was considered an offence for a colored person to look a white person in the eye. ... Jim Crow rates the lie spoken by a white person higher than the truth spoken by black as in To Kill A Mockingbird or In The Heat Of The Night.

Jim Crow media has a problem with the truth in Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.'s demands for America to introspectively look at the domestic issues which some Black Americans and White Americans view differently. Jim Crow ... places a buzz word label of "inflammatory" or "incendiary" next to Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.'s name in an attempt to discredit Senator Obama for his association with Rev. Wright. Senator Obama is relatively a "new kid on the block". Reverend Wright has been preaching the same or a similar message for years. This is an opportunistic ploy to undermine the potential of Senator Obama to become the next President of the United States of America.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has the courage to look anyone Black or White in the eye and tell the truth. ... For many truth is neither "incendiary" and "inflammatory". Hence Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. commands respect for his courage.

Jim Crow media preys upon customary fears of some Whites who are the beneficiaries of Racist legacy of advantage and privilege. Any challenge to their comfort zone of racist advantage(s) and privilege(s) for being White is met with defensive rhetoric. Some deny that disparities exist. Other heirs of Jim Crow benefit(s) blame Blacks for the intergenerational economic and political disadvantages which many heirs of the Emancipation Proclamation endure.

Jim Crow imbues a sense of confidence among racists with the enforcement of regulations and statutes to implement injustice. Over time these immoral practices become so customary that some Whites accept the practice as valid to maintain advantage while Blacks abide for reasons of survival most often to avoid arrest and or prosecution.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was labeled "Trouble Maker" and "Outside Agitator" for delivering articulate oratory on the merits of "Non Violent Resistance". Dr. King and many others were arrested for challenging Jim Crow regulations and statutes. Rest rooms at the bus station in Washington, DC were identified with white and colored signs at the time of the March on Washington where Dr. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech (August 1963).

Is this 2008 or 1968?
Source(s):
1. Galbraith, John Kenneth "The Affluent Society"

[shameonbush]

Why do so many people die in Texas of the heat? Before this republican thinks he should pat himself on the back maybe he should make sure that the energy bill is being used correctly.Last I heard, money meant to help the poor was being used by our government for other things.