How Rick Perry Created Jobs in Texas

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We need 2.5 trillion for infrastructure spending.
www infrastructurereportcard dot org
From 1936 to 1980 the top rate of taxes was over 70%.
From 1942 to 1960 the top rate of taxes was over 90%.
We had the Greatest Middle Class economy and infrastructure prosperity in history.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt raised taxes in the Great Depression and created jobs.
The top 2% are hording the wealth of our nation and are benefiting off the labor and infrastructure of our nation as they monopolize the wealth.
The top 2% won't invest in a bad economy, and those tax cuts created the debt which they buy and we pay interest on compounding the problem.
It take Government Spending to keep an economy going, and that take higher top tax rates.
Face it, the Reagan Revolution has failed America's Middle Class.
The Reagan top rate tax cuts cost 4 trillion over 10 years, 12 trillion over 30 years as the middle class has declined and our prison population increased 6 fold.
The Drug War has cost us 2.5 trillion over 30 years, and has made America the World's Largest Per Capita Prison population. For that money, we could already have solar panels on every roof.
Republicans don't hate Big Government, Republicans hate Good Government.
Since 1980, America is more dependent on foreign oil due to a lack of energy policy, more dependent on foreign debt due to tax cuts, and more dependent on foreign manufacturing due to tariff cuts.
The average tariff rate 1940 to 1975 was 6%, 1975 to 1995 was 3%, 2000 to now 1.3%.
Manufacturing was 53% of the American economy in 1965, 39% in 1988, now it is 9%.
The Bush tax cuts cost 4 trillion over 10 years.
The CBO stated in 2001 that we were on the path to pay off our 5 trillion of debt by 2012.
Bush reversed our fiscal course and doubled our debt.
The Bush Tax cuts (400 billion a year) and the interest on the resulting Republican Debt (200 billion a year) would alone pay for the current cost of Medicare.
Medicare isn't the problem, Medicare saves Lives, Medicare is National Defense Spending, Republicans are THE PROBLEM.
The Bush years created jobs with the deregulated mortgage fraud, and then lost those jobs and more.
The economic crash in 2008 cost federal revenues 400 billion a year.
We can use our current power bills to put solar energy systems on all 100 million American homes to solve our jobs problem with our energy dependence problem.
That would total 2.5 trillion. After the Utility Bills pay for the solar installations, that money would revert to economic stimulus, again, because people would not have power bills to pay.
To Rebuild the American Middle Class Dream WE MUST REPEAL the Republican Tax Cut Scheme!

William House of VA 4:02PM August 16, 2011

New York Passes Historic Green Jobs Financing Law
Lawmakers this afternoon passed historic on-bill financing legislation to dramatically expand the state’s new energy efficiency retrofitting program, Green Jobs/Green NY. The new law will finally enable moderate-income property owners to access safe loans for retrofits, and use energy savings to repay the loan via their utility bills....
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/06/23/new-york-passes-historic-green-jobs-financing-law/
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Homeowners should be able to call their Power Company and ask for solar panels and solar water heaters to be installed.
We pay enough in utility bills to pay off the maintenance and the installation of these solar energy systems within the lifetime of those systems, and it is up to Federal, State, and Local Governments to work with the Power Corporations and make this happen.
Let consumers choose: Consumers pay now for Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal.
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William House of VA 3:46PM August 16, 2011

It's pretty funny that a candidate claiming to abhor government spending would see his state reeling if it was reined in like they say they want to. Slash the DOD's budget in half tomorrow and things would get ugly. Not only does Texas have those huge bases mentioned, but an awful lot of private entities working various government contracts in support of military operations. Lockheed, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, Raytheon, etc., all have a large presence here.
But I forgot, you don't hear much from the right (apart from Ron Paul) about wanting to curtail our military empire. Instead, they would rather gut domestic programs and social services that actually help people here. Texas ranks among the bottom of all states in several education categories, and it will only get worse now that Perry slaashed that budget. Sensible reproductive health education? No way, that's icky, abstinence is the name of the game. Result? 3rd highest teen pregnancy rate, and all the long term social problems that go with it. 1st is repeat teen pregnancies as well!
I could go on and on. You're already seeing scrutiny about the type and quality of the jobs created. Most are low wage and there's a funny joke here, "Perry created tons of jobs, I'm working 3 of them!"
I guess my message to you fellow voter is please give this one a thorough look. Don't just look at his (questionable) record to this point, but look at the type of long term affect his policies will probably have. Listen to the economists sounding off on the long term debit bomb being laid here, the declining quality of public education, and the increasing level of poverty that only adds to social ills. Do you want more of that at the national level? Your choice.

Michael of TX 12:41PM August 16, 2011