-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
According to a Wall Street Journal article, Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, found that since June 2009 37% of all net new jobs in America were created in Texas. Even though Texas is an energy state benefitting from high oil and natural gas prices, Fisher touts Texas’ business friendly environment, its right-to-work laws, and its “tort reform”– a $250,000 cap on punitive damages.
The WSJ article even calls Texas “fiscally responsible.” That’s the same Texas with a $27 billion budget shortfall. The WSJ article also uncritically cites Texas’ statutory limits on mortgage borrowing, a regulation of the financial industry they would decry if Obama proposed it.
While the 37% figure is accurate, the details are what’s interesting. Texas has the highest percentage of minimum wage worker in the country. As the chart below shows, the level of minimum wage jobs has increased during Perry’s reign.
The median hourly earnings for all hourly-paid wage and salary workers in Texas stood at $11.20 per hour in 2010; nationally, the median was $12.50.
Texas also ranks number one in the percentage of residents without health insurance. Texas’ percentage is almost 28%. Massachusetts, with Romneycare, has the lowest at 4.7%.
According to The Economist, the state-level Gross Domestic Product of Texas grew by 2.6% last year, equal to the national average. New York grew by 5.1% and California by 1.8%.
Here is a listing of the Perry economic portfolio touted as a model for the whole country:
- Highest percentage of minimum wage jobs.
- Highest percentage of residents with no health insurance.
- A budget deficit of $27 billion.
- Lower than average wages.
- Average growth in GDP.
So, if you want a low paying job with no health insurance, Texas is your choice.
I’m not going to get involved in confirming or denying sockpuppetry.
The e-mail address is whatever the commenter types on the first line.
The IP address is easily spoofed using a proxy. Google Chrome has a free anonymous proxy service.
I’m not sure what results one would get from a WHOIS search on an IP address supplied by a proxy. I’ll ask some of the guys at work.
A new and useful word, mespo. Thanks. 🙂
And yes Xenicus there are other women I ridicule. The dumb religious zealots anxiously awaiting Armageddon who are close to having access to the nuclear codes. I guess I’m a misoidiōtist. From the Greek, a hater of idiots. Call it a weakness
Xenicus:
Thank you for compiling my greatest hits. I rather think I was praising Nancy this time around. If you’ll look back farther you ‘ll see its the nicest thing I ever said about her.
Here’s my thoughts on her in 2008:
“Unlike Klass and Walsh, all Nancy Grace cares about are ratings and her strident, foolish, and Elmer Gantry-esque take on government and criminal law shows. The only saving “grace” of her show it that it occupies her away from being a prosecutor; a job she miserably attempted* following her admittedly sad brush with crime. Outraged victims surely make poor lawyers, and even poorer commentators on the law it seems.
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* I can’t say it any better than the Supreme Court of Georgis who opined on the record that the conduct of the prosecuting attorney [Ms. Grace] in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable.”
Stop conversing with yourself.
Mespo (aka “Kds Over the Edge” and “I.M. So Sorry”) why does your narrative keep coming back to items like the shrill advocate Nancy Grace? Is the image just stuck in your brain? Sort of like a short time ago when when mespo727272 said
Are there other women you ridicule? Just like you said on this thread at 8:27 and on your Esposito post of 6/11, you betcha!
Kds:
You did indeed. You are as true as your word.
Did say I was not, are you anyone but you? Reread the post to Xenicus.
I hear it every time someone says “boo” to No Way, kderosa, or Roco. I’m amazed they don’t bleed all over their keyboards and demand the ouster of their distal phalanxes for uncivil touching of the keys.
Oh, I hate it when this side come out, put the voice back in the head. I do not know why this side acts like it does.
mespo,
Cursed! But at least being able to think on your feet is better than herpes. 😉
Kds,
Yes. No offense, but there is no way you are mespo.
@mespo, I had not noticed that ability in you before.
I am not a crook, you won’t have Dick to kick around anymore. You have heard that before, right?
Gene,
Do you mean me?
mespo,
One can say that they can really stank on their feet, they are rank and file trolls.
Nope I really can think on my feet. Call it a curse.
@mespo, was that a prepared speech? It seems well thought out. Premeditated. Convenient.
raff,
There is no need to look at anything other than the posts in this instance. There is no way that other poster is Mark. He has no issue with directly clubbing somebody and that’s not even remotely a similar style of writing.
I can only aspire to the wisdom of IM Sorry or KDs Over The Edge. If one leaves off the reference to wops and Dabney, I’m in complete agreement with IM Sorry. The point here dearest Roco and Kderosa is that you’ve finally incensed the large audience of viewers here who rarely post their thoughts but click over nonetheless. Like you right wing brethren you’ve overplayed your hand and lost the audience. Typical of Tea Party Republicans around the country if the new CNN poll is any indication. I guess I do enjoy some gratification that the express purpose of your trollish behavior is being outed by some very astute rank and file. I assure you I have never posted under any name but my own, and it seems a legion of others have joined me in being repulsed by the contrariness, your twists in logic, and your manifest intent to disrupt. Tootles guys. You’ve lost the only fight that matters — the one for hearts and minds. I’m glad I don’t have to report back to my rightwing masters with the news.
rafflaw,
I do not worry about your integrity, nor anyone else’s. It is a shrill’s smoke screen.
I want to echo what Elaine said earlier. As a guest blogger, I have never even looked at email addresses. I am only concerned about the article that I am writing.