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Subscribe to RSSDUBUQUE, IA -- Meeting with Iowa business leaders, Texas Gov. Rick Perry continued to lambaste the Obama administration for using a "regulatory hammer" that he says prevents job growth.
"I am an unabashedly pro-business governor," Perry told a group of about 30 Iowans at a luncheon at the Star Brewery here. "I don't make any apologies for that."
He added that he's criticized for focusing too much on business, but that without job creation "we're finished"
The Texas governor heard grievances from the audience of business owners about taxation, the health-care law, and the Dodd-Frank banking reform passed last year.
Perry, who last night characterized the actions of Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve as "treasonous," dinged President Obama's appointees in the agencies that oversee the business world.
Presidents should "hav[e] people as your appointees that are philosophically attune and courageous enough to make the decisions, to clearly say to the bureaucrats, 'This is not what we're going to do. This is not what we're about,'" he said.
(Worth noting: Perry has been frequently criticized by his hometown press for appointing donors and allies to posts in the state.)
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And all this time Perry's been known as a pro-bullsh!t Governor...
Can you imagine he's even managed to pi$$ Karl Rove off already?
Not a easy fete...
Slick Rick forgot to say that he is unabashedly prone to lie!
I'm pretty sure this is accurate because I've read it myself before. What Perry also does is to raid one state to steal businesses and bring the jobs, many of them minimum wage, to Texas. This may "create" jobs in Texas, but it also causes job losses in the other state, which increases unemployment there. Non-sum-zero. California is his biggest target for this. Studies show that jobs created this way are highly unstable because employers who live one state to take a "better" deal will inevitably leave that state for another deal.
Perry has also used millions and millions of government dollars for the exact same kinds of stimulus that President Obama's stimulus plan did, only not enough.
The difference is that Perry hid the deficits caused by his own shenanigans by using federal stimulus money to pay down his own debt, and then blamed President Obama because the stimulus didn't work and blew a hole in the deficit.
Exactly, and partly by guys like Perry taking their own state debt and transferring it on to the credit card.
An elegant conservative business practice, indeed, because they're getting away with it.
honest jo wrote:
i think jobs are going over seas because of Unions. not everybody is supposed to make 15 bucks an hour. some are supposed to make minimum wage.
6 or 7.00 per hour.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you'd like to make 6 or 7.00 per hour, just go right ahead -- vote Republican and they'll have your wages down below minimum wage in a jiffy.
Because THAT'S the Republican way !
[Perry: 'I am an unabashedly pro-business governor']
...who wants to run the government like a business...EPIC FAIL...
Even Karl Rove thinks he is too far right, now that's scary. If you buy the republican BS calling President Obama a socialist, this guy is a corporatist and wants to create an oligarchy...
Heard on MPR the same thing that Heartlight 3 said. But the new budget which starts Sept 1 have new spending cuts so those public sector jobs will be reduced. We will just have to wait and see the when Sept, Oct, Nov, job statistic's come out for Texas.
Well, it's only been days and we are starting to see that Perry is indeed as dumb as a bag of rocks. Not only does he lack understanding of monetary policy, and not only is he using the old, tired "President Obama doesn't love our country" gimmick, he doubles down on his gaffes.
Since getting bin Laden didn't prove the president's patriotism, it reminds us how obsessed conservatives were with the flag pin in 2008. To show true patriotism, obviously President Obama needs a great big bumper sticker for the bus that says I <Heart> America. Then conservatives will be convinced.
The President in the meantime is having an excellent conversation of what America could and should look like. He is starting to call out Republicans. There will be a clear choice in 2012 between a small country with small goals for small things supported by people with small minds, or a big country doing big things for everyone, and not just a country with winner-take-all monopolies.
Perry in particular has no platform. He supports doing nothing about everything. No income tax (80% of revenue), no social contract programs, no regulations, etc. The Party of NO has their candidate in Perry.
The bumper sticker says: I (heart) America -- forgot symbols won't post.
This is why any future funds must be directed to pre-selected projects. And why state's rights can really suck--it's a lie that everything can be done better at the state level. This was already tried in the early days of our nation and it was chaos.
American Girl -- So true about the false choice when conservatives attack unions or worse minimum wage. The more money people earn, the more money they spend. A living wage and labor rights actually improve conditions for everyone including businesses. The Teabagger "masters" who would love to have sweat shops have duped Teabaggers into shooting themselves in the foot.
All we need to do is require skin in the game from any business that wants to sell their goods in the US market -- and that goes for US companies that offshore as well. I can always find the same or similar product offered at Wal-Mart elsewhere for a similar price. The few pennies saved by forcing American workers to compete with child labor is not worth it.
We can raise the standard of living for ourselves and the rest of the world, as we have done in the past, or we can resign ourselves to defeat and join the third world, living 25 people to a house with no running water or electricity.
What a dismal vision the GOP/TP present. We haven't seen a Republican talk about hope since Reagan. Part of the problem is the president/Dems have adopted a lot of their concepts from the mandate to payroll tax cuts to stimulus, and the Party of No have boxed themselves into rejecting their own platform. This is why they will lose.
True - I read that one of his big backers are supporters of the Tea Party.
So, Carrie, you take Journalism 101? Cause, I'm pretty sure reporting Fact is covered in that course.
Perry DID NOT characterize Bernanke's actions as treasonous.
What he said was, IF Bernanke took action that increased inflation for the purpose of helping Obama get reelected, it would be treacherous, and might even be called treasonous.
I'm pretty sure you've got the direct quote there somewhere. Look it up.
Know what was a really stupid thing to say? That "we're headed in the right direction". Obama said that yesterday. Odd that you don't want to report it, given that more than 70% of the country begs to differ.
So, I guess this goes- twist something the republican says to make it look outrageous- ignore whatever stupidity comes out of Obama's mouth.
Same playbook as last time, right?
Fine. Don't expect the same outcome.
If only I could come up with nonfactual comments like that...
Twisted!
OH let the bitter old broad rave will ya?
She likes to 'fashion' herself the journalistic cop around here - let her have some excitement.
GOD knows she needs it....
After 3 years of venom dripping from her fangs - why would she start to tell the truth now or make sense? lol
You can't teach a old dog new tricks... ;o)
You're the one making the accusation - why don't YOU?
What really matters is that Buckaroo (Perry) just said he would not have voted to raise the debt ceiling. He would have supported a default. This he said despite his website ad that blames the downgrade on President Obama's spending!
What more do we need to know, other than he is even more anti-Medicare than the Paul Ryan plan? And he doesn't just want to end Medicare to give more tax breaks to the rich, he wants to eliminate all income taxes (80% of our revenue).
Can't wait for the republicans to be thwarted again.
Sounds like the Dems are in there for a reason.
I think lunchtime tomorrow will find the Democrats' jobs intact.
At least Wisconsin knows what to expect out of republicans now.....
Folks, this guy is scary, please read his book "Fed Up!" He basically wants to re-write the very Constitution he pledges to uphold. Forget clean water, air, workers rights, education if you vote for this guy. Get informed people. Please see the top ten wacky positions from his book below:
— 10. Social Security Is Evil: According to Perry Social Security is “by far the best example” of a program “violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles.” (page 48)
— 9. Private Enterprise Blossomed Under Conscription and Wartime Price Controls: Not only does he argue that the New Deal failed to end the Great Depression, but he asserts “recovery did not come until World War II, when FDR was finally persuaded to unleash private enterprise.” (page 48)
— 8. Medicare Is Too Expensive But Must Never Be Cut: Both establishing Medicare in 1965 and expanding it to include prescription drugs in 2003 are examples of “an irresponsible culture of spending in Washington” (page 63), but establishing “‘councils of experts’ and panels of various sorts” to assess the cost effectiveness of different Medicare-eligible treatments is a “frightening” “scheme” that “undermines freedom” and can be fairly labeled “death panels” (page 81).
— 7. All Bank Regulation Is Unconstitutional: Criticizing the Security and Exchange Commission’s rulemaking process under the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, Perry asserts that “if the Constitution were shown the appropriate respect, Washington regulation writers wouldn’t have to worry about underrepresented views, because they wouldn’t have control over them in the first place” (page 94).
— 6. Consumer Financial Protection Is Unconstitutional: Further reiterates his view that all federal financial regulation is illegitimate, listing the SEC on page 44 as part of a “federal alphabet soup” in which “undemocratic unelected Washington bureaucrats” are “now (dubiously) empowered to dictate their own preferences to the American people.”
— 5. Almost Everything Is Unconstitutional: Regrets the existence of jurisprudence construing the Commerce Clause to permit “federal laws regulating the environment, regulating guns, protecting civil rights, establishing the massive programs and Medicare and Medicaid, creating national minimum wage laws, [and] establishing national labor laws.” Perry makes a partial exception for laws barring racial discrimination which he says fulfill “the intent behind the passage of the Reconstruction Era amendments.” (page 51)
— 4. Federal Education Policy Is Unconstitutional: Cites the willingness of Republicans to vote for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as a “perfect example” of “losing sight of the fact that perfectly laudable policy choices at the local level are not appropriate (much less constitutional) at the federal level.” (page 87)
— 3. Al Gore Is Part Of A Conspiracy To Deny The Existence Of Global Cooling:Jokes that the Social Security Trust Fund “must be somewhere in Al Gore’s lockbox, right next to his notes from inventing the Internet and that global cooling data he doesn’t want anyone to see” (page 60). Argues that moderates oppose curbing greenhouse gas emissions because “they know that we have been experiencing a cooling trend” (page 92).
— 2. Not Only Is Everything Unconstitutional, Activist Judges Are A Problem:Having called the majority of the duly enacted modern welfare state and federal regulatory apparatus unconstitutional, Perry pivots to the complaint that “the [Supreme] court too often chooses to take it upon itself to govern and to develop policy” (page 114).
— 1. The Civil War Was Caused By Slaveowners Trampling On Northern States’ Rights: Rather than simply citing chattel slavery as an exemption to his “states’ rights are good” principle, Perry argues that slaveholder activism in the 1850s was an example of big government federal overreach. “In many ways it was was the northern states whose sovereignty was violated in the run-up to the Civil War,” he argues, citing the Fugitive Slave Act and completely ignoring the human rights of the enslaved African-Americans of the south. He says “we can never know what would have happened in the absence of federal involvement,” ignoring again the fact that federalism would have bought peace at the price of continued slavery.
By Matthew Yglesias on Aug 15, 2011 at 10:00 am
Mav - Thanks for your post. I read up on Perry and he is indeed scary. Along with being a right wing fundamentalist evangalist who likes to mix up Church and State, he's opposed to all social programs, and in spite of all scientific evidence he doesn't believe in global warming. I wonder what he expects the elderly to do - be euthanized since he is opposed to Social Security and Medicare. He shoots those 44 caliber bibles from the hip and would condemn all of us to hellfire and damnation. He runs his mouth without thinking. He isn't presidential material. He's too radical.
BTW: With this statement Perry is exposing the ugly truth behind American politics:
It is driven by and for business.
In essence Perry is a prostitute broadcasting for a John.
And he is unashamed enough to announce that he is laying on the bed,....naked,......and waiting.
Perry: "Big Business,...I'll do all the things you like."
ROFL, that is real imagery. And really ugly.
Ahem. Sounds enticing. LoL
It's comical that he stops just short of admitting to to being a racist bigot and is enjoying casting the treason stone...casting stones in his tax payer funded mansion. He should watch out lest it crumble before him sooner than he anticepates...
It won't, a big chunk of Texas' share of the stimulus funds went to work done on the Texas Governor's mansion. Too bad it didn't go to "shovel-ready" projects like the crumbling water lines in Texas cities. Houston had over 700 water main breaks today, but thanks to the stimulus in Perry's hands, the state budget got balanced and his mansion is better than ever.
Democrats are gay, Marxist, economically-clueless, baby murdering abortionists: human pollution. A one-eyed retarded chimpanzee has better leadership skills than Komrade Obama.
All those years in school and you are still dumber then a f@uckin ROCK!
Thanks SO mcuh for playing - LMAO!
Poor republican lawyer, your hate is killing your brain cells for all to see.
But people think even less of republican lawyers so what is your point?
Every business requires customers.
The state of Texas ranks dead last in credit scores for it's citizens.
Every business in Texas should be very afraid that their customers could be on the verge of collapse. It's the same situation the US faced in 2007. Fortunately most people in this country have been paying off their debt and increasing their credit scores.
Anyone who thinks business is the solution to every problem this nation faces is just a foolish as those who think government is the answer to every problem this nation faces.
"Charlie" you are right. The issue boils down to shared responsibility. Business and Government play key rolls but one can't ride rough shot over the other. Deregulation for the sake of it makes no sense. Wall Street and the banks broke the rules, which they created for the most part - you have to have boundariesto protect the system and people as a whole. Now they want to gut the Financial Reform Bill. Rick Perry wants corporations to have free reign. The president wants to have some protections in place and that's his job, to protect the American people. Corporations only care about today, you are already seeing the affects pollution across the country, water shortages and depletion of natural resources and forests, we can't keep this pace up and expect to have resources in the next 50-100 years. "Drill baby drill" then what? Natural resources are just that, and once they are gone they are gone... There has to be a balance between public and private sector. Too much short term thinking on boths sides.
Just what this country needs - another DUMB-A** COWBOY!!!
In your guts you know he is nuts.
Job1: Love it!
Job1: You will be rich with that bumper sticker!
I want a candidate who grew up poor so that they can understand the problems this country is facing at a gut level. All these Richey Rich candidates do not have a basic understanding of what it is like to be hungry and not have food or be sick and not have access to a doctor or need housing but not have money to get it.
This fool wants to end social security and medicare. Almost all of us have invested in Social Security and our employers have paid into it as well. What happened to all that money? Let's sue the federal government for lack of fiduciary responsibility. At the very least, the money should have been invested in safe and conservative investments so it would be there when we needed it. Guess it went to pay for all the wars we couldn't afford.
"Donna" unfortunately that won't happen. When you consider that 2/3 of the senate are millionaires and a lot of the congressman are too, there is really no one to represent the people. That is why there should be term limits for all politicians. The founding fathers warned us of the "career politicians". The Supreme Court should apply as well, they have way too much power and lifetime appointments.
I think Texas must have a lot of McDonalds restrauants to have such job growth.
I am a Billionaire and it's election buying time again. Who gets my money to help my business? Newt really smart but NO I don't think so. What about the Palin wannabe. No too Flakey. Maybe Obonmy. No. Oh the Bush look alike. He will sell me all I want at a cheap price, but America is broke and I already have all I need from 30 years of buying these politicians. Nothing left to buy. Wait a minute What about Dr Paul? If I give some money to him the entire 300 million. He will bring some sanity back to America.He will make the currency sound and make this country once again the envy of the world. America will actually back their money with GOLD. All nations around the world will want to invest in America because I choose to invest in America instead of corporate greed. God Bless this country and vote with a real reason
Paul is better than Perry--I agree with you on that. He's better than several of the candidates running for president on the Republican side. However, he won't win because the media won't acknowledge him--look how they ignored him when he came in second in the Iowa Straw Poll. The Fox "journalists" asking the questions at the debate recently couldn't have been more disdainful of him. I don't know if it's his age or what, but many folks in the msm just don't like him. (See the recent Jon Stewart "Daily Show" episode in which he criticizes the msm for completely ignoring Paul.) He will also be hard to elect because he doesn't have Republican establishment's support. Unfortunately, it's a political reality. I wish we could change this about American politics....
When Perry says he is "pro-business", I really wonder if he knows what he means. Doesn't he know that cutting education is bad for future businesses? He probably forgot about the fact that businesses need customers. If too many people don't make enough money to buy more than their basic necessities, businesses won't make enough profits to stay open. When people are worried about their health b/c they don't have insurance, they aren't going to go on a shopping spree. I know a number of small business owners here in Texas. They say that people are holding onto their cash and not spending it. That forces the small business owners to curtail investing in new equipment, hiring new employees, etc. It's a vicious cycle. Just focusing on the business end of things and ignoring the consumer will not break this cycle. You have to be willing to invest in PEOPLE, something Perry is not interested in doing.
Lied- and she's a politician no,no, no, this cannot possibly be true.
Perry is business's bitch.
Would you buy a used car from this man?