Actually trillions of dollars was sent to states so that goverment union workers could keep their jobs. And then those union dues were funneled back to Democrat campaign chests.
Thank you US taxpayers for keeping the corrupt Dem incumbents in power.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: Actually trillions of dollars was sent to states so that goverment union workers could keep their jobs. And then those union dues were funneled back to Democrat campaign chests.
Thank you US taxpayers for keeping the corrupt Dem incumbents in power.
LJ herself says many of the jobs created in Texas were public sector and paid for with federal stimulus money.
Tripped up by your own side?
And I am not saying keeping public servants employed was a bad use of stimulus, just that it was a big part of the money states received from Congress and President Obama.
And BTW, much of the money given to banks to support them has been paid back, the goverment even made money on most of the bank bailouts. GM & Chrysler? Not so much.
But you keep your bumper-sticker slogans.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: LJ herself says many of the jobs created in Texas were public sector and paid for with federal stimulus money.
Tripped up by your own side?
And I am not saying keeping public servants employed was a bad use of stimulus, just that it was a big part of the money states received from Congress and President Obama.
And BTW, much of the money given to banks to support them has been paid back, the goverment even made money on most of the bank bailouts. GM & Chrysler? Not so much.
But you keep your bumper-sticker slogans.
Are you always this defensive? I simply asked where you got your information that the trillions of dollars that went to the states (was it really trillions?) went to union dues and then came back to the democratic coffers......pretty simple question. Got an answer?
Not trillions of dollars went to union coffers, but union dues were paid by the retained goverment employees and union leaders donate a percentage of those funds to Democrats.
Remember those shovel ready infrastructure projects? The majority of those had to hire union construction workers. Wonder why that is? A payback for all the donations of unions to Dem politicians. VL will verify that.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: Not trillions of dollars went to union coffers, but union dues were paid by the retained goverment employees and union leaders donate a percentage of those funds to Democrats.
Remember those shovel ready infrastructure projects? The majority of those had to hire union construction workers. Wonder why that is? A payback for all the donations of unions to Dem politicians. VL will verify that.
They HAD to hire union workers?
I think you are really reaching on all this, but you are entitled to your opinion. I just find it a bit of an exaggeration that the stimulus funds were spent such that they would come back to fund Democrat's campaigns. Whatever. Ever wonder how much of the corporate bailout money ended up in Republican's coffers? I thought not.
SS109 wrote: LJ herself says many of the jobs created in Texas were public sector and paid for with federal stimulus money.
Tripped up by your own side?
I said no such thing...
In Rick Perry's Texas, Most New Jobs Have Gone To Immigrants
As the 2012 presidential campaign has started to take shape, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has made much of the Lone Star state's job-creation numbers during his time in office. But repeated analyses have suggested that once you get past the talking points, Texas job growth under Perry hasn't actually been very impressive.
In a report that complicates Perry's claims to have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs for Americans, the Center for Immigration Studies has found that from 2007 to 2011, about 40 percent of the jobs created in Texas went to undocumented immigrants. About another 40 percent of new jobs went to immigrants who were in the country legally.
All told, legal or undocumented immigrants held about 225,000 of the 279,000 jobs created in Texas in the past four years. This is particularly noteworthy, the CIS notes, because while Texas's working-age population grew between 2007 and 2011, 69 percent of that growth came from native-born U.S. citizens. Yet immigrants accounted for 81 percent of the job growth.
In one sense, these numbers aren't surprising, but rather a reflection of national trends. Over a million immigrants found jobs in the U.S. between 2008 and 2010, a period during which the economy crashed and unemployment skyrocketed. Texas shares 1200 miles of border with Mexico, making it particularly easy for immigrants to enter the state and find work.
Still, the CIS report offers further ammunition to those who want to push back against the narrative Perry has been touting on the campaign trail, that Texas has led the country in job creation thanks to his stewardship.
Can anyone remember the names of the future students of public school teachers, future listeners to NPR/PBS, future union workers, and future taxpayers who were murdered by Planned Parenthood?
