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Maybe those jobs would have come to Texas without a government bribe. Maybe not. We will never know, will we?
they're still working. simple math.
Maybe those jobs would have come to Texas without a government bribe. Maybe not. We will never know, will we?
Meh
Companies have reorganized in bankruptcy before and gone on as viable businesses.
Nope, we won't will we?
And your point is?
My point is maybe those jobs would have come to Texas without a government bribe. Maybe not. We will never know.
What part don't you understand?
So we both agree that we should take a hard look at campaign reform which eliminates (currently legal) bribery on both sides of the aisle?
How has the conservative SCOTUS treated such reform efforts?
its elementary.
They ruled that as far as political contributions (simplistically) corporations should be treated just like people.
Unfortunately, financing the electoral process by donations will always lend itself to abuse.
You seem to be advocating public campaign financing.
I think it would be tempting to explore as long as the playing field could be leveled to give the challenger equal footing against the in bent. Using the bully puppet of in bency is just so hard to overcome. (see recent "fact finding" not "campaigning" bus tour exhibit one)
Aww.... I can tell I'm under your skin. It hurts but you'll make it through, big guy.
Laughing at the concept that you think you could pwn ANYONE.
You are the stupidest mother er in the political forum.
Boutons may be bat crazy but you are just bum ing stupid.
At least chump has some game and Clambake can fall back on his juvenile junior high quote alterations.
P.S. you really can't stop thinking about . Gross, .
Public financing is dead in the water. SCOTUS has ruled that UCA-corrupted elections are exercise of Free Speech.
Jimmy Ricky backing away from his book, just like he backed away from mandatory Gardisil
Perry campaign distances him from book’s call for repeal of 16th Amendment
Rick Perry’s campaign is now distancing him from another controversial claim in his book: That we should repeal the 16th Amendment and replace it with a “Fair Tax,” a radical idea that’s still rattling around in some precincts on the right.
Perry’s book, published in the fall of 2010, offered a range of policy prescriptions to deal with the problems he thinks are associated with the income tax. He proposed two alternatives: The first was to scrap the current tax code in favor of a “flat tax” to make taxaation “simpler, easier to follow, and harder to manipulate.”
The second, more controversial, proposal Perry advanced in the book was to “repeal the 16th Amendment” and “then pursue an alternative model of taxation such as a national sales tax or the Fair Tax.” He called the 16th Amendment “the great milestone on the road to serfdom” because it represented “the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...kFZJ_blog.html
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What do you Jimmy Ricky suckers think about his book, which, of course, you read?
Rick Perry: Governor for Sale
Texas’s political system is also as brazenly capable of corruption by money and special interests as that in Washington, and unabashedly so.
Long before the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United allowed unlimited contributions to begin flowing into national super PACs, Texas had some of the most lax campaign finance laws anywhere. At the state level, there are no limits on the amount of money individuals can contribute to candidates, allowing wealthy donors to directly bankroll campaigns. In such an environment, Rick Perry didn’t just survive, he flourished. He didn’t just embrace the system, he shattered records with it, raising more than anyone in Texas history [7]. Indeed, for as long as Perry has been governor, the governor’s mansion has been ostensibly for sale.
Consider the numbers: Throughout his campaigns for governor, Perry raised $102 million, half of which came from just 204 sources [8]. According to the Los Angeles Times, nearly half of those donors [9] have received tax breaks, appointments or large business contracts. Half have received payments from two funds, sponsored by Perry, to funnel tax dollars to private business.
http://www.thenation.com/print/blog/...-governor-sale
You can tell Perry scares the out of Obama.
He has his blogosphere attack dogs frothing at the mouth.
Jimmy Ricky needs to win the Repug power brokers and financiers before he scares anybody, other than scaring Willard.
Perry's too damn freaky, like pitbull and Backmann, to win independents. Bible-thumping jerks and corrupt TX businessmen won't be enough.
It's amazing how frantic they are isn't it.
Not frantic at all, just shooting a rotten fish in a barrel, opening the door so all those skeletons can fall out.
And Jimmy Ricky takes it seriously because he's flip-flopping and backing off his long history of bull statements, claims, positions, etc.
lol they're exactly like you guys. until now, you've been saying perry is .
looks like you guys are chin deep up into his now. lol
Conservative Criticism of Rick Perry's Corporate Cronyism
We recently reported on how Texas Governor Rick Perry has raked in remarkably large donations from business executives in exchange for governmental appointments and policy favors. Now even conservatives are criticizing Perry for putting the interests of corporations ahead of the public interest.
The conservative Washington Examiner lambasted Perry on Wednesday as a “cowboy corporatist.” Timothy Carney, who covers the intersection of corporate and political power for the Examiner, detailed how Perry created and ran the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund to hand over taxpayer money to private businesses. The nominal purpose is helping businesses expand in Texas or relocate there. Being a Perry donor is the surest route to winning a grant from one of these slush funds. Half of Perry’s “mega-donors” have gotten money. Examples include a $4.5 million grant to $80,000 Perry donor David Nance and poultry mogul Joe Sanderson, who gave Perry’s campaign $165,000, receiving $500,000 from the state government.
After eight years of crony capitalism under another recent Governor of Texas, it’s not only conservatives that Perry will have to worry about.
http://www.thenation.com/print/blog/...orate-cronyism
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Non-Repugs exposing and objecting to Jimmy Ricky's corruption.
So it looks like Fox's "makers", in TX, are really "takers" of confiscated tax payer dollars. But of course, that's how govt "works" for Repugs and conservatives.
Destroy the safety net for poor "takers" so there are more taxpayer dollars for the wealthy "makers". aka, socialism for the wealthy.
Rick Perry vs. the Tea Party
Why Texas activists think their governor is all hat and no cattle when it comes to shrinking government.
"He sells himself on the right, he packages himself on the right, but if you look at the record, he's not conservative by any stretch."
61 percent of Texans voted against Perry in 2006 (he won in a four-way race), and when the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune polled the state this spring, just 4 percent said they'd like to see their governor run for president.
"Generally speaking, when you look at what he's done, he's a big-government, micromanage your family, micromanage your business ideologue,"
Under Perry, the Lone Star State has borrowed more and more—going from $13 billion in debt when he took office in 2000, to $38 billion by 2008. "Gov. Perry has done exactly what the tea party is hollering at Washington,
Much of the conservative criticism of Perry comes down to the fact that he's a corporatist conservative less concerned about the 10th Amendment principles than he lets on. But then again: For the rest of the party, that's kind of the appeal.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...erry-tea-party
Rick Perry Vows to Defund Planned Parenthood
The pledge has four parts:
* a promise only to pick federal judges who adhere to the strict "original meaning of the Cons ution,"
* to "select only pro-life appointees" for attorney general and assorted posts at the National Ins utes of Health, Justice Department and Department of Health & Human Services.
* to defund Planned Parenthood and any other organization that performs or funds abortions and to end all taxpayer funding of abortion, domestically or overseas and
* to sign into law the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," to ban abortion based on the premise that fetuses can feel pain.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/...ned-parenthood
So?
A president gets to attempt an agenda.
Think he could get congress to craft such bills?
Nope. It'll never happen. The minute abortion is outlawed, the Fundies lose all interest in politics, and the GOP goes in the tank. Why else do you think that with a sitting GOP fundamentalist President, both Houses of Congress strongly GOP for six years, and a stacked SCOTUS that abortion is STILL legal in the US?
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