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Originally Posted by Sausage
Correct me if I am wrong, but from the outside looking in Texas seems to be doing much better than most of the other states. Just sayin.. maybe you should get a guy in charge who has some experience getting an economy working again first, then you can worry about people believing in a book, or who is putting their penis where.
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From what I understand much of this job growth has been in minimum wage jobs and energy industry jobs. Since oil companies have been making record profits it makes sense that they would expand and many of them are based in Texas. Otherwise minimum wage jobs are better than nothing, but many of them are also part time jobs that have no benefits and are meant to be held as either part time second jobs or part time jobs that teens and recent grads get while they work towards something better.
I read yesterday that much of the job growth in Texas really has little or nothing to do with Perry and his policies, but is more a byproduct of an increasing population (people moving their because cost of living is cheap) and the energy companies bleeding the rest of the nation dry.
That said, beyond his being a fanatical religious person who feels the solution to our problems is to pray I don't know a lot about him or how good of a governor he really has been.