Rick Perry is the most genuine candidate we have!

The Viking wrote: Obviously LJ is better at cartoons than reading. Did you even read the post? And you make fun of the way he talks but he has created over 1 million jobs, what have you done for this country other than kill other people's brain cells?

http://www.politifact.com/texas/stateme ... jobs-whil/
The Truth-O-Meter Says:
"In Texas, we created over 1 million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over 2 million."
Rick Perry on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 in a television ad
We dug into Perry’s statement in a September fact-check, rating his claim Half True.

Without question, Texas has enjoyed phenomenal job growth over most of the time Perry has been governor, though how much came because of his leadership — or any state-level actions — is debatable.

Pia Orrenius, an economist for the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, told us in a June interview that the Texas economy has been roaring since 1990. "Long before Rick Perry" became governor, she said, "we were talking about the great Texas economy.

Also, we recognize that job-gain claims can overreach. An example: Perry’s January 2009 claim that about 70 percent of the U.S. jobs created between November 2007 and November 2008 were in Texas. We rated that claim False because the percentage was based on comparing new jobs in Texas with new jobs in 13 other states and the District of Columbia where job gains outnumbered losses; it ignored jobs created in 36 states where job losses overall outnumbered gains.

And most of each state’s economic circumstances — in Texas' case, no state personal income tax and vast natural resources, for starters — aren't controlled by the governor.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/dav ... -plan-terr
October 30, 2011 07:30 AM
Chris Wallace to Rick Perry: Your Jobs Plan Is 'Terrible' - VIDEO
By David

Fox News' Chris Wallace told Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry that his goal of creating 2.5 million jobs in his first term was "terrible." "Governor, here's what I don't get about that 2.5 million jobs: 2.5 million jobs is terrible," Wallace said to Perry Sunday. We looked at it. We would roughly need six million jobs in the first four years just to stay even with population growth. So, 2.5 million jobs, the unemployment rate would increase.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ele ... _blog.html
Perry’s jobs promise? Far fewer than Carter
By Nia-Malika Henderson
10/27/2011

A bit of context. The current unemployment rate is 9.1 percent and there are 14 million people out of work; if you count the underemployed the figure jumps to 26 million. A bit more context. President Jimmy Carter, the poster boy for failed Democratic presidents, created 10.5 million jobs in four years, according to the Wall Street Journal which tallied job records going back to Harry Truman . Bill Clinton created 23.1 million jobs and beat an incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, who created 2.5 million jobs in one term.George W. Bush, over eight years, created 3 million jobs.

So Perry’s pledge of creating at least 2.5 million jobs means that he is setting a very low bar.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politi ... 033097.php
Rick Perry’s jobs metric
By Steve Benen
October 26, 2011 1:10 PM

In fact, if Perry believes voters should be impressed with his vow to create 2.5 million jobs, the Texas governor should probably be more impressed with President Obama’s jobs record.

Let’s consider the jobs data. Over the last year and a half, as the economic recovery has slowly progressed, the economy has added 2.56 million private-sector jobs. Over that same period — March 2010 through September 2011 — the overall economy has added 2.1 million jobs, and should reach the 2.5 million mark by early next year.

— Rick Perry believes he’ll able to create the same number of jobs in four years that Barack Obama has created in a year and a half.