Between 2007-2010, Texas lost 178k Private Sector Jobs, gained 125k Government Jobs

[Ausm]

LOL the "red states" would be decimated within 20 years left on their own. They go until the last car circled the oval and poof... extinct.

I am all for letting the Red States secede.

 

[woolfe9999]

Civil War played its role in decimating the south and injecting it with abject poverty. It never caught back up from that butchery, and so yes, it remains behind.

You can take your offer of dependence and shove it. We'd rather live poor and FREE. Keep yourself a slave to central planning and say hi to the next GWB.

Poverty isn't freedom.

Loving the ideology of victimization though. Your first paragraph is an exact mirror parallel to blacks who still blame slavery for their present day socio-economic status. It's the exact same argument. What, after 150 years the south STILL can't "pull itself up by its own bootstraps?" What a riot.

 

[FuzzyBee]

What happened to the OP?

 

[Atreus21]

Some one call China and tell them.

They are still considered communist.

Yes, in name only.

 

[spacejamz]

What happened to the OP?

probably still taking a ride on the failboat...LOL

 

[Jaskalas]

Poverty isn't freedom.

Dependence isn't freedom either, in fact it quite resembles slavery.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

What happened to the OP?

He's writing his acceptance speech for the ownage of the year award.
To further refute his BS link

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/11/18/3537395/private-sector-leads-texas-job.html

Texas added 2,500 jobs in October from a month earlier, with the private sector leading the way, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday.
Private employers added 13,500 jobs, and government shed 11,000 jobs compared with September, the commission said.
Texas' jobless rate was 8.4 percent, compared with 8.5 percent in September, while the Fort Worth-Arlington rate fell to 7.8 percent. The local job market was up 16,400 jobs to 866,200 from a year ago.
Texas was up 231,600 jobs over a year ago, and 286,200 private-sector jobs, making up for cuts in the government sector, the commission said.
"Private employers continue to invest their capital in the growing Texas workforce," said Tom Pauken, the commission chairman.

Oh, and the OP said we Texans could eat a dick? We're not Californians, that's not our thing.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas - Davy Crockett

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Haters will hate.


<3 Texas

 

[Genx87]

Some one call China and tell them.

They are still considered communist.

As they move away from communism on the economic side. So yeah, communism is dead as an economic theory.

 

[RabidMongoose]

I implore people to be more humane when it comes to the red/conservative states. There would be a humanitarian crisis on the level of Rwanda if the red/conservative states were to secede or to not receive federal welfare.

There would be a tremendous loss in human life and great human suffering. Think of the children, too.

 

[Wreckem]

Uh, the data is flawed and misleading for multiple reasons. Those off the top of my head.

Texas is on the the lower end of per capita rates when it comes to state government employment.

Also, Texas gutted its state work force in 2003/2004(the last major budget shortfall). Rehiring didn't really recover until until 2007.

Furthermore, Texas has been cutting state employees since 2010.

And yes, the money Texas got from Obama's stimulus package plugged the shortfall for the 2009/2010 budget. Other states had much bigger shortfalls to fill. And yes EVERY state got stimulus funds, I believe $80billion went to state governments to shore up their budgets. It was allocated IIRC based on population.

Also, at the end of the current budget cycle(2011/2012) Texas will owe about $4.5billion in medicaid payments to the US govt(which is why they didn't use all of the rainy day fund).

Oh and Ricky Perry is a douche bag tool. He is an embarrassment to Texas.

 

[JockoJohnson]

I implore people to be more humane when it comes to the red/conservative states. There would be a humanitarian crisis on the level of Rwanda if the red/conservative states were to secede or to not receive federal welfare.

There would be a tremendous loss in human life and great human suffering. Think of the children, too.

What are you babbling on about still? Have you ignored the other posts in this thread with links that Texas is better off than what the OP posted? You might be one of those statistics from the Autism thread...go check it out if you haven't already been diagnosed.

 

[silverpig]

debunked...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-bl...-biden-economist-erroneously-applies-bls-data

Incredibly, especially for an economist, Bernstein used the annual averages for 2007 and 2010 as his comparison points instead of going from the end of 2006 to the end of 2010 to pick up what happened during the entire four-year period he told readers he was presenting. Readers can see that the actual results differ significantly when compared to Jared's Junk, specifically: 214,000 total jobs gained instead of 53,000 lost; 73,000 private sector gains instead of 178,000 losses; and 141,000 government job gains instead of 125,000

Using single point in time snapshots is never an accurate way to go. That article is complete crap. The noise level (variability) in the number of jobs each month is very significant. Going December-December produces erroneous results because you can be measuring from a starting point that is below average due to fluctuations to an end point that is above average due to fluctuations. Taking an annual average smooths out this variability.

 

[Mursilis]

So you'd be fine watching the red states starve and descend into chaos without your money?

The red states would be fine. They have more guns and don't seem to mind wars too much.

 

[etrigan420]

Using single point in time snapshots is never an accurate way to go. That article is complete crap. The noise level (variability) in the number of jobs each month is very significant. Going December-December produces erroneous results because you can be measuring from a starting point that is below average due to fluctuations to an end point that is above average due to fluctuations. Taking an annual average smooths out this variability.

Well...it *is* Newsbusters...

 

[ElFenix]

Oh and Ricky Perry is a douche bag tool. He is an embarrassment to Texas.

:thumbsup:


last i saw, texas is a *slight* donor state. and those statistics are skewed as companies' income taxes are paid from where headquartered, which is not necessarily where the income is earned.




but i'm always amazed that people in the states that benefited from a couple hundred years of internal mercantilism in the US bitch about how poor those on the receiving end of it are. it'd be like people in england bitching about how poor people in india are.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Are you fucking shitting me? Combine this with the fact that red states typically get back more money than they pay into the federal government, and you have some of the most disgusting hypocrisy ever. It's almost like there's a conservative argument for smaller government because it's fucking conservatives who abuse the rest of the nation. To the retard conservatives who brag about Rick Perry's/Texas' accomplishments in his state: eat a dick.

Nice generalization.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html

Granted, #35 isn't exactly New Jersey's #50 or a number of other non-fuckin-Republican-leech-welfare states, but Texas is hardly New Mexico either.