They have no choice but to attack the Republicans.

It's not like they can tout the accomplishments of the Democrats.

By the time of the election they will have run up $7 trillion in debt from the time they took total control of Congress in January 2007.

The debt was $6 trillion when Bush took office in 2001.

So think about that. They will have run up more debt in 5 years than we had from the founding of the country until 2001.

Good Luck..

First, it is worth noting that President Obama and Democrats created more jobs in 2010 than George W. Bush did in his eight year reign of economic malfeasance. From Bush’s first month in office until December of 2009, the economy added 1 million jobs, but in 2010 alone the economy added at least 1.1 million jobs

LONGVIEW, Tex. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has leapfrogged to the top tier of Republican presidential candidates largely on the strength of one compelling fact: During more than a decade as governor, his state created more than 1 million jobs, while the nation as a whole lost 1.4 million jobs.

Perry says the “Texas miracle” rests on conservative pillars that he would bring to the White House: minimal regulation and government, low taxes and a determination to limit the reach of Uncle Sam. . . .
What he does not say is that much of that job growth has come because of government, not in spite of it.

With a young and fast-growing population, a large and expanding military presence and an influx of federal stimulus money, the number of government jobs in Texas has grown at more than double the rate of private-sector employment during Perry’s tenure.

The disparity has grown sharper since the national recession hit. Between December 2007 and last June, private-sector employment in Texas declined by 0.6 percent while public-sector jobs increased by 6.4 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, government employees account for about one-sixth of the workforce in Texas.

The significant role of government in Texas’s relative prosperity stands in stark contrast to the “go-it-alone” image cultivated by Perry, who credits a lack of government interference for fostering a business-friendly environment in Texas.

“The fact is, government doesn’t create jobs, otherwise the last 21 / 2 years of stimulus would have worked,” Perry said this month in a speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. “Government can only create the environment that allows the private sector to create jobs. The single most important contributor to our jobs-friendly climate here in Texas is our low tax burden, because we know dollars do far more to create jobs and prosperity in the people’s hands than they do in the government’s.”

Perry has criticized Washington for “thumbing its nose” at the American people. In announcing his candidacy for president last weekend, Perry said he would “work every day to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

Mark Miner, a Perry spokesman, said the governor’s job-creation record speaks for itself. He also said the state received less per capita — about $1,000 per resident vs. more than $1,400 in New York and $1,200 in California — than most other states from the stimulus plan while still producing more jobs.

Population boom

Analysts call the growth in government employment in Texas a natural consequence of the surging population, which has grown by more than 20 percent in the past decade to 25.1 million. The increase has caused local governments and school systems to hire more teachers, budget analysts, compliance officers and police officers.

“A lot of growth has been happening in the public sector to respond to a growing population,” said Don Baylor Jr., a senior policy analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a research and advocacy group in Austin. “That has been an ongoing driver of our job growth.”

The Liberal's you worship voted for the Iraq war and your Fuhrer if in the Senate at that time would have voted "Present" like he always did.

Obama knew about his uncle being illegal

Knowing a crime is being committed and doing nothing about it is a CRIME.

I would rather have 1,000,000 Dick Cheney's then the Liberal's Fuhrer they have now.

I stand by that they are not going to deport the presidents uncle w/o the presidents permission.

Rick Perry is no George W. Bush.

This is not a compliment.

Perry's 2010 Tea Party-steeped manifesto, "Fed Up!," makes George Bush look like George McGovern.

Perry has said he wasn't planning to run for president when he wrote the book, and it shows:

• The Texas governor floats the notion of repealing the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax. Perry describes the amendment as "the great milestone on the road to serfdom" because it "was the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States."

Raise your hand if you believe, as Perry suggests, that it is wrong to ask the wealthiest to pay a greater share of their income than the poor.

• He lambastes the 17th Amendment, which instituted direct election of senators, as a misguided "blow to the ability of states to exert influence on the federal government" that "traded structural difficulties and some local corruption for a much larger and dangerous form of corruption."

Raise your hand if you'd like to give the power to elect senators back to your state legislature.

• Perry laments the New Deal as "the second big step" — the 16th and 17th amendments being the first — "in the march of socialism and ... the key to releasing the remaining constraints on the national government's power to do whatever it wishes."

• He specifically targets Social Security for "violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles of federalism and limited government," and asserts that "by any measure, Social Security is a failure." Not by the measure of the share of elderly living in poverty.

Perry's description of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" was impolitic, but he has a legitimate point about the program's funding imbalance.

The bigger problem is his basic hostility to the notion of a federal role in retirement security — or, more broadly, a federal role in much of anything besides national defense.

• As much as he dislikes the New Deal, Perry is even less happy about the Great Society, suggesting that programs such as Medicare are unconstitutional. "From housing to public television, from the environment to art, from education to medical care, from public transportation to food, and beyond, Washington took greater control of powers that were conspicuously missing from Article 1 of the Constitution," he writes.

Whoa! These are not mainstream Republican views — at least, not any Republican mainstream post-Goldwater and pre-Tea Party. Even Ronald Reagan, who had once criticized Social Security and Medicare, was backing away from those positions by the 1980 presidential campaign.

How Rick Perry Got Rich While Working Government Jobs
AUG 30 2011, 3:49 PM ET9
The Texas Republican is either an incredibly savvy real estate investor, or adept at leveraging his political connections for profit



Gov. Rick Perry's boots must have some sturdy straps. In the mid-1980s, when he began serving as a Texas state representative, he earned roughly $45,000 per year. He spent the next couple decades in government jobs. And now? Unlike most of us, Perry hasn't yet filed his 2010 tax return. But his net worth is in the low seven figures -- in fact, he earned over $1 million dollars in 2007 alone, although he made just $150,000 as governor, a job that tends to take up all of one's time.

An investigative piece in the Forth Worth Star Telegram explains how he made so much money over the years. One example occurred during his tenure as the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture:

Perry bought another 10 acres of undeveloped land in 1993. That property drew interest from Michael Dell, a computer magnate who needed Perry's tract to connect his new home to municipal sewer lines. Dell took the property off Perry's hands for $465,000, more than triple what Perry had paid for it two years earlier. Perry reported a $342,994 profit on the sale in his 1995 tax return.

Texas Democrats have repeatedly questioned the sale over the years, in part because Mike Toomey - an influential lobbyist who would later become Perry's chief of staff - closed the deal for Perry while Perry was out of town. Perry has always maintained he didn't know that the land would be so valuable to Dell when he purchased the property.

Here's another example:

Perry purchased the land from state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, in 2001 for $314,770. Six years later, Perry sold it for $1.1 million, pulling a profit of $823,776. Perry has attributed the gain to a favorable market for Hill Country land. "We bought a piece of property, the property appreciated and we sold it," Perry said last year.

In a post that insinuates corruption, David Frum characterizes the deal as follows:

A Texas real estate developer sells land to a Texas state senator - the senator who happened to represent the development's district. The state senator sold the land to Gov. Perry. Gov. Perry then sold then land - back to the real estate developer's business partner. Perry scored a profit of $823,000. Tidy. And how remarkable that Perry and his state senator friend could see a value proposition that the two professional real estate developers overlooked. So it goes through investments in stock, load, and energy properties. Perry just kept seeing things that other people apparently didn't.
Jim Geraghty, a generally fair-minded reporter from National Review, thinks that Perry's critics are being unfair -- he can't help it if he's lucky!

I'd note that for the Horseshoe Bay property, Perry bought at a relative trough in the real estate market (2001) and sold near the peak of the bubble (2007), and Texas home prices enjoyed some particularly good years in there. One of Perry's earliest land deals ended with a modest profit ($70,000 over three years) and for another one, Perry enjoyed the good fortune of owning the land that computer magnate Michael Dell needed to connect his new home to municipal sewer lines.
Perhaps I'm just cynical from my days covering California's Inland Empire, where elected officials also seemed to be adept at making advantageous land deals, but this is too much. Yes, anyone can get lucky, and it makes sense to judge Perry's profits in the context of the housing market, but seriously? A lobbyist bought a parcel for the State Agricultural Commissioner that a rich businessman needed to connect his new home to the sewers, and that was just "good fortune"? This is exactly the sort of information that political insiders know about and exploit, and it's naive to think that Perry's position as an elected official has played no role in his "luck," or for that matter, that Barack Obama just happened to get a good deal on a house from Tony Rezko, or that Members of Congress just happen to outperform the stock market.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/how-rick-perry-got-rich-while-working-government-jobs/244342/

One more year to go then we can vote Rick Perry into office!

but it is ok for the presidents relatives to be here illegally.

if the president can't set an example, then he doesn't need to be president...

how many presidents relatives have been detained by the immigration department?

so if they did put your "list" of people you want want jailed in jail, what then? will it change anything? will it undo anything? how will it affect your life? will it create jobs? will it stabilize the economy? what good will it do?