Apparently if you want to have a twisted (ie, incorrect) view of the world, just listen to the Republican debate.
There are too many incorrect or at least misleading points presented during the Republican debates to try to numerate here. Instead, I’ll just provide a link to this article:
A couple things I’ll point out about the Texas job growth as touted by Perry:- Since June 2009, nearly 10% of the Texas job growth have been from a bigger government, adding 31,100 government jobs. In contrary, from a national perspective, US has lost 523,000 government jobs adding to the overall unemployment woes.
- According to the Texas Workforce Commission, 51 percent of all Texas workers make less than $33,000 a year. I suppose that’s one way to increase employment. Make people take lower paying jobs, so that more people can have jobs.
- It’s well known Texas is supported by big oil. As an example, in this struggling economy, Exxon reported a QUARTERLY PROFIT of $10.68B in June 2011. If we extrapolate that for the year, it would be over $40B in profit. Obviously no job problems in the oil industry.
So exactly how does Perry plan to apply the “Texas model” to the US?
References:- http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20110908/D9PK466O0.html
- http://factcheck.org/2011/08/texas-size-recovery/
- http://ycharts.com/companies/XOM/net_income
If you’d like a humorous view of the debate, there’s always the Daily Show:
Click on the above image for the video.
