Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry the New Reagan?

Must be true love!

Yes, he's done so much for the Education system in Texas....

12,372 And Counting. Teaching Jobs Lost In Texas

AUSTIN—More than 12,000 Texas public school teachers, librarians, administrators, and support staff have left their school job in the roughly three months since the Texas Legislature released proposed budget figures for the 2012-2013 biennium, according to data released Tuesday by the Texas Progressive Alliance.

"There is no bunk in these numbers," said Vince Leibowitz, chair of the Alliance, a group of progressive online activists including more than 50 netroots activists, bloggers, and online writers from across Texas. "These numbers are the cold, hard, truth and show precisely how significant an impact the proposed budget is already having on school districts across the state," Leibowitz said.

More alarming, he noted, is that the more than 12,000 layoffs, firings, and voluntary or forced retirements represent only a fraction of the devastating toll the proposed budget is taking on public education. "These reductions come from a grand total of 60 of the state's 1,234 school districts, less than five percent of all school districts statewide," he noted. "Imagine how high this number will be when data is collected for
all of these school districts," he continued.

http://thetexascloverleaf.blogspot.com/ ... -lost.html

No wonder he hates it so much...He was so bad at it.

Just saw this. Guess I've been out of the loop for a while.

A source in Texas passed The Huffington Post Perry’s transcripts from his years at Texas A&M University. The future politician did not distinguish himself much in the classroom. While he later became a student leader, he had to get out of academic probation to do so. He rarely earned anything above a C in his courses — earning a C in U.S. History, a D in Shakespeare, and a D in the principles of economics. Perry got a C in gym.

Perry also did poorly on classes within his animal science major. In fall semester 1970, he received a D in veterinary anatomy, a F in a second course on organic chemistry and a C in animal breeding. He did get an A in world military systems and “Improv. of Learning” — his only two As while at A&M.

“A&M wasn’t exactly Harvard on the Brazos River,” recalled a Perry classmate in an interview with The Huffington Post. “This was not the brightest guy around. We always kind of laughed. He was always kind of a joke.”

A "D" in economics? A "C" in gym? How do you get a "C" in gym class? Wear your underwear on the outside of your shorts?

To answer the question posed by OP:

No, Gov. Rick Perry is not the new Reagan.

Rick Perry is the new George Bush.

No - I don't think he's a "New Reagan."

archer wrote: Creating jobs at the expense of a deficit spiraling out of control.....that's good? Texans may have more jobs (though they may, or may, not be decent wage job....but their educational system is a huge failure, their budget is out of control, there is no money for services, roads, bridges, infrastructure, they are in worse economic shape than most any other state......and this is what you think is a good model for the US as a whole?

I think we can do better than that.....apparently you don't

:rofl rofllol I can't believe that you just typed that! I had to save it for you. NOT creating jobs, in fact LOSING 2.5 million jobs in 2 1/2 years at the expense of a deficit higher than all other Presidents combined is better? Are you living on earth? Even people living in the jungles in the Amazon have heard how Obama has turned trillions into a loss of 2.5 million jobs and a consistent 9%+ unemployment.

The Viking wrote:

archer wrote: Creating jobs at the expense of a deficit spiraling out of control.....that's good? Texans may have more jobs (though they may, or may, not be decent wage job....but their educational system is a huge failure, their budget is out of control, there is no money for services, roads, bridges, infrastructure, they are in worse economic shape than most any other state......and this is what you think is a good model for the US as a whole?

I think we can do better than that.....apparently you don't

:rofl rofllol I can't believe that you just typed that! I had to save it for you. NOT creating jobs, in fact LOSING 2.5 million jobs in 2 1/2 years at the expense of a deficit higher than all other Presidents combined is better? Are you living on earth? Even people living in the jungles in the Amazon have heard how Obama has turned trillions into a loss of 2.5 million jobs and a consistent 9%+ unemployment.

have a little more :Koolaid: Viking....

hmmmmm......are you saying that it's ok to raise the dificit and our debt, and have an unbalanced budget, in order to create jobs? That's what Perry did.....he has new jobs, but the finances of the state of Texas are in a shambles....perhaps from all those give-aways to corporations to bring jobs to the state.

And yes, I think we can do better than that....and apparently you don't.

I am amused though that you are so as blind to think that the jobs losses are all Obama's....but that brings us back to Bush, who you think never existed.

archer wrote:

The Viking wrote:

archer wrote: Creating jobs at the expense of a deficit spiraling out of control.....that's good? Texans may have more jobs (though they may, or may, not be decent wage job....but their educational system is a huge failure, their budget is out of control, there is no money for services, roads, bridges, infrastructure, they are in worse economic shape than most any other state......and this is what you think is a good model for the US as a whole?

I think we can do better than that.....apparently you don't

:rofl rofllol I can't believe that you just typed that! I had to save it for you. NOT creating jobs, in fact LOSING 2.5 million jobs in 2 1/2 years at the expense of a deficit higher than all other Presidents combined is better? Are you living on earth? Even people living in the jungles in the Amazon have heard how Obama has turned trillions into a loss of 2.5 million jobs and a consistent 9%+ unemployment.

have a little more :Koolaid: Viking....

hmmmmm......are you saying that it's ok to raise the dificit and our debt, and have an unbalanced budget, in order to create jobs? That's what Perry did.....he has new jobs, but the finances of the state of Texas are in a shambles....perhaps from all those give-aways to corporations to bring jobs to the state.

And yes, I think we can do better than that....and apparently you don't.

I am amused though that you are so as blind to think that the jobs losses are all Obama's....but that brings us back to Bush, who you think never existed.

So if you think we can do better and Obama's economic record is 10 times as bad then I guess if it comes down to those two you will vote for Perry? Good to know. Unless you really don't mean what you are typing and don't belive that we can do better.

Oh I mean what I type, but your ability to read through those conservative colored glasses sucks.