up all that shoe leather and pixels and all that breath covering republican party fund-raisers. i mean, straw polls. because of their great predictive value and all the important information they give us the presidential race. or, we could all agree to treat these things as what we all know they are. cooked-up publicity stunts to get media attention and use it as leverage to force the candidates to pander to the most manipulative and cynical activists in the political system. oh, and to raise money for republican parties and activists groups. we could call them embarrassing political pandering stunts. or we could call them straw polls. same difference.
other state in the nation. as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. that s governor perry yesterday. you re going to hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than doubled in texas over the last four years and also texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some those people boosting the texas economy come across illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, illegal immigrant labor pumps in $17 billion a year which in turn also create
half of all the jobs created in america. that s governor perry yesterday. you re going to hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than doubled in texas over the last four years and also texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some those people boosting the texas economy come across illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, illegal immigrant labor pumps in $17 billion a year which in turn also creates more jobs. another job creating factor, federal stimulus money going straight into stat
that s governor perry yesterday. you ll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than dunld in texas over the last four years and texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some of the people come illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, illegal immigrant labor pumps in $17 billion a year which in turn also creates more jobs. another job creating factor, federal stimulus money going straight into state and local construction projects or to cover 90% of the state s bubblinget deficit. in as
first the jobs. we created more jobs than any other state in the nation. as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. that s governor perry yesterday. you re going to hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than doubled in texas over the last four years and also texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some those people boosting the texas economy come across illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, illegal immigrant labor pumps