{"id":5640,"date":"2011-08-18T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2011-08-18T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:13:13","slug":"no-miracles-from-this-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/no-miracles-from-this-hypocrite\/","title":{"rendered":"No Miracles from This Hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly Ivins labeled him \u201cGovernor Good Hair\u201d.  That may be the only good thing about Rick Perry, even if millions of autos have to go without lubrication due to the shortage of grease his hair care causes.  Since it became apparent that he is seeking the presidency, he has tried to sell America one con job after another.  Two are the so-called \u201cTexas Miracle\u201d and the image of Perry the pious one.  There really is a Texas Miracle.  It\u2019s a miracle that Texas has survived his reign.  On piety, he is a hypocrite of the worst order.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18txgovtjobs\"I think Rick Perry is going to get eaten alive in this campaign. If being an Al Gore supporter hasn’t already doomed him with the tea partiers, and if his dull, glazed-eyes George Bushian demeanor doesn’t doom him with everyone else, then his own record ought to do it.<\/font><\/p>\n

We can thank Perry for one thing, though: yet another demonstration of how crazy\/scary\/controversial\/liberal Keynesian economics actually works in practice<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Despite being one of the loudest critics of President Obama’s stimulus, Perry used billions of dollars of federal money to patch Texas’ budget shortfalls, and was thus able to create and maintain lots and lots of public sector jobs. In fact, if you look at net job creation between 2007 and 2010, it’s clear the only thing keeping Texas buoyant was government jobs. <\/font><\/p>\n

Check out the below [above here] chart from Jared Bernstein<\/a><\/font> — a fiscal policy expert at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and former chief economist to the stimulus bill’s top cop, Vice President Joe Biden. It shows pretty conclusively that the recession cost Texas 178,000 private sector jobs — a fairly small share for a populous state, when you consider that crisis cost the country many millions. But in the same period, it added 125,000 public sector jobs — nearly half of all government jobs created in this period nationwide.<\/strong><\/span> Put together, the Texas has only lost 53,000 jobs total during the downturn.<\/font><\/p>\n

For all of Rick Perry’s whining about wanting more federal aid (when he wasn’t threatening to secede from the union rather than take it, that is), Texas made out like a bandit when it comes to government-supported job creation. Nearly half of all government jobs nationwide<\/em><\/span> were added in Texas? Talk about federal stimulus! <\/font><\/p>\n

Note that if those government jobs hadn’t been added\u2014or worse, if they not only hadn’t been added, but further government jobs had been cut<\/em><\/span>\u2014the Texas unemployment situation would look even more dismal than it is\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There you have it.  Even Perry\u2019s apparent success is based on hypocrisy.  He did everything he is now campaigning against.  But beneath the veneer, Texas under Perry is in terrible shape as Keith Olbermann demonstrates with Nia-Malika Henderson on Countdown<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n