Other news: Rain pours over San Antonio Friday morning . . . keep your fingers crossed. The fate of Texas' entire redistricting plan could hinge on just a few districts among the dozens that have been proposed by state lawmakers.
Hark Texas environmentalists: Rumors of your demise are premature – [E]nvironmental organizations are spreading their influence across Texas. National and state-based groups are adding staff at the state capital or opening new field offices in other major metropolitan areas. Others, like the Texas Campaign for the Environment, (TCE) are branching out to every corner of the state soon.
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From the Austin American-StatesmanBy Jason Embry
Friday, September 16, 2011
The Texas unemployment rate reached 8.5 percent in August, its highest rate since June of 1987. That’s an increase from 8.4 percent in July.
Those numbers come from the U.S. Department of Labor. The numbers were confirmed by the Texas Workforce Commission, which says the state lost 1,300 jobs in August.
Texas gained 8,100 private-sector jobs, but those jobs were wiped out by job losses in the public sector.
For the year, Texas has added 272,000 jobs in the private sector but lost 19,000 government jobs. In August alone, the state lost 11,500 jobs in local government, for a net loss of 9,400 government jobs.
The Texas unemployment rate ranks 27th, tied with Colorado.
6 comments:
"Texas gained 8,100 private-sector jobs, but those jobs were wiped out by job losses in the public sector."
Hey, that's good. Why should a father or mother with a family working for the state make $50,000 a year when the offsetting hire in the private sector can make minimum wage? All I care about are my taxes anyway. Who cares about people, especially government workers?
It's not about fair wages and benefits and Americans making a decent living without going into debt. It is about getting rid of government jobs because the Tea Party says that is good for America. And I know that is right.
Join the Texas Tea Party so we can do more of the same in Texas.
Clearly the Roundup Editor is trying to derail the great Rick Perry's move to the White House.
I say we need a President who gives pharmaceutical companies business by forcing our children to take a drug.
Perry is not only a humanitarian but a good capitalist as well.
That's what we need in America. Who cares about the 8% to 20% unemployed in America.
If over 90% of Texas citizens are employed, then why did we need cuts of over 15% to the education funds of this state? This "budget shortfall in education, and human services" suggests that the 90% who are working are not paying taxes! The set-up of the legislative priorities for Texas 2011 is beginning to look more and more like a farce,as a well-designed plan by Gov Perry, a corporate crony, to undercut public education and services, so as not to even mention the high profits of the petroleum industry and the militry industrial complex in this state! Raising taxes was never allowed to come up, was it? Who voted this man back into office? What costs against Texas future are we going to have to pay? over 90% employment, cannot balance the budget? Give me a break!
So y'all know Quatrune Brain consideres herself to be an intellectual.
And we all know educated American citizens tend to be atheists and socialists.
That's why I will vote for Rick Perry.
In his Texas A&M Animal Science major the year he graduated, Perry was in the top 10 of his class - of 13 graduates.
That's my type of underachieving President. None of this Harvard Law Review intellectual stuff.
We need a President who thinks and acts like the average ignorant American.
Most jobs in the future are only going to be created by local businesses.
The big Wall Street firms will always outsource jobs to cheaper labor countries or try and rid human labor with automation.
In fact, the sole purpose of publicly-trade companies is to make a profit. They are not patriotic or even American anymore. They are simply for-profit (for shareholders) corporations.
Moreover, almost all the federal and state politicians have been totally corrupted by corporate lobby money bribes. So we cannot rely on our politicians to create jobs because the US corporate sector wants to wait years before they again offer jobs - at a time when the middle class is so desparate they will take almost anything from the elite job controllers.
At that time Wall Street will finally bring jobs back into the US at third world labor wages.
To achieve this objective, we currently have two levels of economic master puppetry going on.
First, almost all politicians are on the lobby bribe take - saying whatever needs to be said to appeal to the anger and fear of the middle class - both left and right.
Second, the voters, who are already angry and fearful (and some very pissed off that a black man is in the White House), are vulnerable to such manipulation and deceit.
Rich Perry and many of the Republican Tea Party politicans (henchmen for the right wing corporatists) have become masters at turning right wing middle class anger away from their real abusers - Wall Street and the elite political class.
If the Tea Party Republicans get the US Presidency, it will only be a matter of time until the angry middle class will turn on them as well (if the middle class has any self-respect left at that point).
Based on what we have seen in the last few years, Americans seem to need more economic pain. They are still in denial of reality and facts.
But they will become "aware" of their mistake quickly once a neoRepublican federal government is in place. Only then will it be possible to start a true middle class worker revolution and begin a fresh start away from years of growing wealth inequity.
However, we are already starting to see a corporate-controlled quasi-government police state established. They know what is likely to come.
As Americans, before we go too crazy, we must ultimately decide if we want a worker "welfare" state where the middle class controls the US economy and more Americans make more money - or what we have now - a consolidating corporate welfare state, which even Barack Obama is part of.
Ah say son, that thar Perry is a legend in his own mind. R ya listening, son?
Too many of those jobs created don't put enough food on the table and many don't offer health care, which many Texans still can't afford.
Oh yes, many of those Perry jobs are part time and low wages.
I may vote for Perry, Ah say son, just to get him out of the great state o' Texas.
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