June of 1992 the Texas Unemployment rate was 8.4%. while the national rate was 8%. YES, that right, in June of 1992 the USA unemployment rate was 8% under President George H. W. Bush.
The Texas Unemployment Rate zig-zagged like the carbon dioxide hockey stick of Mauna Loa Laboratories until December 2000 when the rate was 3.7% under President William Clinton while the national average was 3.7%, too.
Then under the illustrious leadership of George W. Bush the unemployment rate rose in Texas in June of 2003 to 7.5% while the national average was 6.5%.
In April of 2007 the Texas unemployment rate fell once more to 4.0% while the national average was 4.4%. I suppose all those ill gotten gains from Halliburton's Iraq venue meant something. The federal treasury during the first term of Bush/Cheney subsidized the Texas economy. It was not time that the Texas unemployment rate was skyrocketing again as the global economic collapse became real.
In April 2008 it was maintaining at 4%, by December of 2008 it was 5.7% and by July 2009 it was 8.2%. The all time high came in January 2010 at 8.6% and it has jumped up and down since then for a Texas Unemployment rate of 7.7% as of April 2011.
Texas is the largest state geographically in the lower 48 with extensive natural resources that Repbulicans rely on in order to be wealthy. It has the second largest population of all the states, California being the first, so the 'TEND' in unemployment will naturally show up there first. It is the first state to actually realize the changes taking place in the nation because it is the highest number of people with changing employment.
The USA National unemployment rate is 8.4% currently. If Rick Perry were boasting the unemployment rate of Texas had fallen dramatically to something like 5% or even 6% I'd say he'd have something there. But for Texas unemployment rate to be only .7% less than the national average, it ain't anything to brag about.
Besides falsely claiming he has made the most strides in employment in the nation, he is attempting to conduct oppression of the Texas vote.
By Richard Connelly, Thu., Jan. 20 2011 at 12:16 PM
Categories: Political Animals
Remember that vast tsunami of voter fraud that swept across Texas, coming close to throwing into chaos the very concept of democracy?
Neither do we.
Even Karl Rove, using every bit of the federal government he could get his hands on, couldn't find the widespread fraud right-wingers insist takes place among what coincidentally happen to be minority voters.
But rampant voter fraud exists, dammit, because GOPers keep saying so. And not only does it exist, it exists to such a massive extent that Rick Perry has introduced emergency legislation dealing with it….
In all honesty. The Republican Party is in such disrepair that it can hardly call itself a party anymore.
