Perry: No stimulus program if he’s president; pledges to ‘get America working again’

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said Monday that no new economic stimulus package is needed to “get America working again,” but he declined to give specifics about how his still-unannounced plan to jumpstart the nation’s economy would create jobs.

During an appearance at the Tulsa Press Club, Perry said he would let his “guiding principles” as a fiscal conservative inform his policies. But when pressed for details, Perry resorted to general statements he has often repeated on the campaign trail.

“No. 1 is don’t spend all the money, you can figure out what that means,” Perry said at the Tulsa Press Club event also attended by U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. “You won’t have stimulus programs under a Perry presidency. You won’t spend all the money.”

The Texas governor, the newest entry into the 2012 GOP presidential field having announced his candidacy just over two weeks ago, has yet to release a national economic plan.

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One difference between Democrats and Republicans...

[Swede Atlanta]

1. He'll follow the failed Texas bait and switch....

Analysis reveals his Texas miracle is far from that...taking from the poor to give to the rich and enslaving the masses in minimum wage jobs..plus killing more people via the death penalty...gee what would Jesus say? I think he would be having some negative things to say rather than calling him to "serve" which we all know means to serve his corporate masters.

[Zambero]

2. Right on Rick!

Let's get all those millions of outsourced jobs shipped back here to the good old U.S.A., where workers can also earn a whopping 75 cents an hour just like their counterparts in other countries. Guess we'll have to adjust the minimum wage a tad while we're at it. Hey, what the hell, it gets folks off unemployment, dunnit?

[wisteria]

3. I honestly do not care what this guy says he is going to do, he is as phony

as a three dollar bill and appears as sleazy as Jim Baker. He is the last thing this country needs as President.

[Raschel]

19. He reminds me of the "Music Man"!:

[ShockediSay]

31. "you can figure out what that means,”

We got another two-faced double talking politician governor from Texas who'll say anything to get elected.

[newspeak]

4. just saw the Rachel Maddow show

apparently texas has in their constitution that the budget must be balanced, even off of the backs of those who are suffering. It seems Perry a couple of years ago gave another business tax break to his friends which accrued 27 billion in debt-he used stimulus money to pay some of it. The guys something. And he calls social security a ponzi scheme? So, his cuts to his friends while upping the debt must be a "perry scheme."

Oh, and Perry, Social security is NOT a ponzi scheme, but giving your friends on wall street our money (privatizing SS) could be considered a scheme. Your little corporate friends have basically screwed most of our 401ks away and now they want it all.

[Kingofalldems]

5. At $5.25 an hour

[on point]

6. All you have to do is pray for the return of slavery!

[bongbong]

7. His plan

Everybody will sit around and pray for problems to end.

[lunasun]

24. A nation wide prayer in unity all together everyone the day after the election of course

[unkachuck]

8. "No. 1 is don’t spend all the money, you can figure out what that means,"

....what does that mean? All you limp-dick Republican fascists that fucked-up our economy and country want to continue the destruction?

"You won’t have stimulus programs under a Perry presidency..."

....perry, you're one worthless slimy motherfucker; you'll make a fine puke president....

[DallasNE]

27. Does That Mean Going Back To The Clinton Budget

It was in surplus. That would mean ending the Bush tax cuts and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as paying for Social Security Part D. Even then it wouldn't create a budget in surplus because of the job situation. That, unfortunately for Perry, means a stimulus package. Nothing else will come anywhere near getting the budget back to where is was under Clinton.

[w0nderer]

9. k&r

the more people notice this, the more talking points there is to take at least this guy out of the race

[Javaman]

10. little ricky cement head, didn't have a problem taking the stimulus money

that basically saved Texas. But why go into those glaring details.

the man is a fucking moron.

[cstanleytech]

11. Yup good ole Rick (The Slick) Perry.

[CBHagman]

12. It may play with Inhofe...

...but not with the rest of the country. Deploy "all hat and no cattle" signs.

[ProgressoDem]

13. Get America working by doing nothing?

These dumbass teabaggers think that because it doesn't make sense, it must be really complex or complicated or something but since a "smart" person said it, it must be a good idea. ITS NOT A GOOD IDEA YOU DUMBASSES, ITS WHAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS

[Downwinder]

14. I'll bet he has some good migrant labor jobs in California

for those people in Oklahoma.

[moondust]

15. Plantation America.

"Tall white mansions and little shacks." Neil Young, Southern Man

[madrchsod]

16. he has a 2.1 or 2.2 grade average.....

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Right for a dollar a day...

If he's president America is Kaput.

[Solly Mack]

18. Perry says nothing...a lot. His voters eat this up...since they know nothing.

[Ilsa]

20. He doesn't have a fucking clue how to do it. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

22. I think he has some "job training" ideas rattling around in his head

but they involve sweatshops, workhouses, and chain gangs.

[Mosaic]

21. Perry is an extremist nut

I've been studying him closely for a long while now and I can guarantee he is bad for America, American values, the economy, our standing in the world, and for the environment already in terrible shape. Stay away from him like the plague. No respect for this religious nut.

[rpannier]

23. Remove "...stimulus programs under..."

and you have the truth

You won’t have a Perry presidency

[SoapBox]

25. Get ready for sub-minimum or NO minimum...

No wages.

No insurance.

No job protections.

No on the job protections.

...China here we come!

[jmowreader]

26. This is the Perry Job Creation Plan

1. Eliminate the Capital Gains Tax.

2. Eliminate the Corporate Income Tax.

3. Cut personal income taxes for the "job creators."

4. Eliminate the minimum wage.

[Kablooie]

28. You forgot - Then pray to God that he fix up everything for you.

[earcandle]

29. How? We need congress to levy compulsory taxes on everyone without favor to raise revenue to do

anything at all.  How else can we get money to do anything
collectively?  Or is that passe for Mr. Perry and he prefers a
feudal economy? 

[coalition_unwilling]

30. Like Nixon with Vietnam in '68, Perry has a 'secret plan' to get America

working again. Whiel details are still a closely-held secret, informed sources say that some of the plan's key components are to outlaw unions, jail their leaders and supporters and repeal minimum wage and child labor laws.

[NickB79]

32. Step 1: Cut food stamp spending and pray for manna from Heaven. nt