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Title: Texas Unemployment At Highest Level Since 1987
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CBS NEWS
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011 ... 19/politics/main20094672.shtml
Published: Aug 19, 2011
Author: CBS NEWS
Post Date: 2011-08-19 13:40:53 by Brian S
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Views: 4088
Comments: 7
(CBS/AP) The unemployment rate in Texas has jumped to 8.4 percent in July, the highest level since the state was reeling from an energy, real estate and banking crisis 24 years ago. The Texas Workforce Commission said Friday the jobless rate was up from 8.2 percent in June. The increase came despite a 10th consecutive month of job growth. The agency says the state added 29,300 jobs in July. The unemployment rate matched the figure from July 1987. Commission Chairman Tom Pauken says the state "continues to feel the effects of a stagnant national economy." The U.S. jobless rate is 9.1 percent. The trade, transportation and utility sector added 15,300 jobs last month, but that was offset by a combined loss of 15,400 jobs in the government and construction sectors. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the Texas governor, has pointed to Texas' strong record on job creation as one of his qualifications for the presidency. Perry has provided generous subsidies to lure companies to Texas from other states and has kept taxes and regulations low. "Since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the new jobs created in America," Perry said in announcing his candidacy Saturday. "Now think about that. We're home to less than 10 percent of the population in America, but 40 percent of all the new jobs were created in that state." Democrats have suggested Perry does not deserve credit for the state's jobs boom, suggesting that it resulted from population growth and a rise in oil prices. They have also noted that Texas is tied with Mississippi for the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs of any state. Perry became governor in December 2000.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Perry just needs to get the minimum wage cut and the jobs will flow like the water Texas doesn't have.
LOL! Governor Perry just makes you libTURDS shit yourselves doesn't he loser? You want to play the compare states run by demonRATS and repukelican'ts bitch? REALLY? LOL! You libTURD SCUM have NOTHING but FAILURE to run on do you creep? LOL! So ... of course ... you libTURD filth do what you libTURD filth do. LIE. You are nothing but libTURD FILTH. AND your time is coming to an end here in the United States of America. libTURD SCUM. SCUM.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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Oh, I wish it were true. But like weeds in a garden, they always come back.
__________________________________________________________________________________________ But like weeds in a garden, they always come back. Somehow we need to figure out how to incorporate some "Lemming" genes into their DNA sequence......
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. It IS TRUE. AMERICANS, like most people, don't really get motivated until their own "ox is gored". NOW the wee failed man child messiah "king" obammy has done it to ALL of us Americans, and NOW those who of us, who are not brain dead libTURD whores, are seeing what a CHARLIE FOXTROT libTURDISM really IS in the REAL world. THIS lesson cannot be talked out of Americans. Of course "they" will always be with us, just like all forms of insanity will be. BUT at least NOW we can start the process of taking real power away from these gibbering lunatics. No matter how long it takes.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
. BULLSHIT, you gibbering libTURTD whore. Want to compare the feral gooberment to TEXAS anything whore? BRING IT. But next time whore don't make shit up. libTURD scum. SCUM
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Mad Dog (#2)
AND your time is coming to an end here in the United States of America.
HA! The tea-party, INDEED! They're so . . . ah . . . common
#5. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#4)
Oh, I wish it were true.
#6. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#4)
#7. To: goat65 (#3)
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