Perry and his miracle

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s shadow run for the White House rests on expansive claims that the Lone Star State’s economy has done better than the rest of the country through the Great Recession.

“We keep adding jobs while others are losing them left and right,” he told the Republican Leadership Conference at its mid-June meeting in New Orleans.

The Republican governor ‘s economic stewardship has received enthusiastic reviews from the media, including The Wall Street Journal, which claimed in an editorial that Texas accounted for 37 percent of all the new jobs created since the recession ended two years ago.



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1. Great pic for the article

Perry whittles while Texas burns! It's not oil wildcatting but drought brush fires and Perry's hands should be red with blood, not black with oil.

There’s just one problem with that portrayal. While Texas has created more jobs than any other state in the past two years, the increase is far less than advertised, and the rate is not much higher than a number of other states, including former rustbelt centers like Pennsylvania or liberal sanctuaries like Vermont. In fact, the Lone Star State’s unemployment rate of 8 percent is ranked 24th among states, placing it squarely in the middle of the pack.

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