Rick Perry didn’t create any jobs in Texas, Rick Perry Borrowed money from the Federal Government ( Obama’s Tarp Money) to balance the budget in texas since 2009. Liar liar pants on Fire. Rick Perry was one of the Governor who wrote letter in 2009 to Ben Bernanke for the 800 Million dollors. You Rick Perry is a liar and a hypocrite, Rest of the America is not like Texas . Rick Perry you didn’t create any jobs in Texas But Obama created jobs in Texas with his Tarp moey.
Rick Perry's record of job creation: Is it a miracle, a myth or the result of the drug trade?
By Caroline Gallay
08.16.11 | 11:00 am
Since Rick Perry hit the campaign trail hard, he's been touting a platform of job creation.
After all, he can't very well rely on his other go-to positions, namely secession and the idea that problems can be prayed away. And there's a statistic that Perry and others are fond of throwing around — that Texas, and by extension, Perry, is responsible for 30 percent of the jobs created nationwide in the last two years.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist, takes issue with that stat, arguing that Texas' job growth is not only unexamined, but impossible to recreate on a national scale.
As Tina Rosenberg reported, $27 billion in drug money flows across the United States' southwestern border, 60 percent of which is part of Texas. It's a tough industry to ignore.
In a recent column, Krugman writes that any admiration for Texas' job growth emanates from a misunderstanding of its relationship to population growth, which Texas has enjoyed in part because of its temperate climate, cheap housing and large immigrant population.
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Gov. Rick Perry enters the presidential race with one big advantage and one big impediment. The advantage: his record of job creation in Texas. His impediment? His record of job creation in Texas.
Through two years of weak economic recovery, Texas has led the nation in job creation. Of all the jobs created in the United States since 2009, 38% have been created in Texas.
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(CBS News) One day after Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz hammered Perry's record on job creation and accused him of making "inaccurate" comments about President Obama's economic accomplishments.
Wasserman Schultz, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," told Norah O'Donnell that she was "incredibly proud" of Mr. Obama's efforts at turning the economy around - and argued that Perry does not deserve credit for Texas' strong job creation record.
Texas's unemployment rate is 8.2 percent, about one point less than the national average, and 40 percent of the nation's new jobs since June 2009 are in Texas, though many are low-wage.
"There is a dramatic contrast with the governor of Texas" when it comes to his record versus the president's on job creation," Wasserman Schultz said. "Not the least of which is that it is extremely difficult for him to deserve credit for that job creation when you have rising gas prices that created oil jobs that he had nothing to do with, when you had military spending as a result of two wars that created military jobs that he had nothing to do with, when you have the Recovery Act championed by President Obama that created jobs in Texas that he had nothing to do with."
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