Posted: 8/16/2011 2:41:50 PM EDT
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So: What do YOU think about Perry?
I thought I'd share a couple of links about Rick Perry, since he just announced his presidential bid and took the top spot in the latest primary poll. He is a big firearms supporter and will protect our rights and interests as gun owners living in a free republic. He has led Texas to more jobs and could shake things up a bit in Washington. Hopefully he can retain the rally of support that he has gained this week following his bid. I think that Perry is one of two people who could beat Obama in '12. The only other person that I believe could win is NJ Governor Chris Christie. Here are the links to Mr. Perry's campaign website and the primary poll from this week: http://www.rickperry.org Rasmussen Primary Poll (Rick Perry 29% favorite) I know football is right around the corner, but it is time to start talking about the '12 election as well. Cheers and good evening! Bryant |
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I like him thus far, legitimate criticisms and all, and much better than any of the other so-called "front-runners." My Dad doesn't usually get very excited about politics, but he seems genuinely supportive of Perry for some reason. Unless something or someone changes my mind, he will have my primary vote; if he manages to win the nomination, he will certainly have it in the general election. But I am hesitant to get too "excited" about him, personally, because that is usually the kiss of death to a candidate.  As I said elsewhere on the site, my vote is now basically his to lose. 
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Quoted: I like him thus far, legitimate criticisms and all, and much better than any of the other so-called "front-runners." My Dad doesn't usually get very excited about politics, but he seems genuinely supportive of Perry for some reason. Unless something or someone changes my mind, he will have my primary vote; if he manages to win the nomination, he will certainly have it in the general election. But I am hesitant to get too "excited" about him, personally, because that is usually the kiss of death to a candidate. As I said elsewhere on the site, my vote is now basically his to lose. I couldn't have said it better. I haven't been excited over any presidential candidate as long as I can remember. I am not having "giggle fits" at the thought of him running but he is certainly out front of the other contenders for me. I suppose the only thing we can do is pray that we are lead to making the correct choice come primary and ballot time. |
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Not real sure about him. I was so hopeful but now I just don't know. A few too many links like this pop up on any search engine.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/why-shouldnt-rick-perrys-islamic-ties-be-vetted.html |
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http://www.augustforecast.com/2011/08/16/rick-perry-tied-to-agenda-21-globalist-policies/
Rick Perry tied to Agenda 21, globalist policies Posted on 16 August 2011 By Terri Hall Rick Perry may be good at invoking states rights and property rights, while disavowing ‘foreign creditors,’ but his actions as Texas’ longest serving governor tell a different story. Public private partnerships (or P3s) are part and parcel of the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Two of the purposes of Agenda 21 are to abolish private property and restrict mobility and P3s act as the vehicle to do it. Perry made P3s a centerpiece of his transportation policy since he stepped in as governor. It started with the Trans Texas Corridor, known at the federal level as high priority corridors, corridors of the future, or the NAFTA superhighways. Just in Texas, it was to be a 4,000 mile multi-modal network of toll roads, rail lines, power transmission lines, pipelines, telecommunications lines and more. It was going to be financed, operated, and controlled by a foreign company granted massive swaths of land 1,200 feet (4 football fields) wide taken forcibly through eminent domain. Called the biggest land grab in Texas history, it was going to gobble up 580,000 acres of private Texas land (the first corridor alone was to displace 1 million Texans) and hand it over to well-connected global players using P3s, who would gain exclusive rights to determine the route and what hotels, restaurants, and gas stations were along the corridor in a government-sanctioned monopoly for a half century. It was the worst case of eminent domain for private gain ever conceived. Property rights shredded The Trans Texas Corridor, and P3s in general, represent an imminent threat to private property rights. While lawmakers repealed the Trans Texas Corridor from state statute only months ago due to the public backlash, the re-named corridor (‘Innovative Connectivity Plan’) and its threat to property rights lives on through P3s. Two such projects underway by a Spanish developer, Cintra, will charge Texans 75 cents per mile in tolls (nearly $13 a day while Perry claims he hasn’t raised taxes or indebted Texans to foreign creditors) to access lanes on two public interstates — I-635 and I-820. A third project being developed by the same company for two segments on SH 130 is, perhaps, the only leg of the Trans Texas Corridor TTC-35 project that will ever be built. While Perry distracted Texans and tea partiers with ‘emergency’ resolutions on state sovereignty during the 82nd legislature, P3s spread from transportation projects to virtually every other type of public infrastructure in a bill, SB 1048, passed by the Texas legislature which he signed into law June 17. Now all public infrastructure, including public buildings, schools, nursing homes, ports, mass transit, etc. can be auctioned-off to private interests in long-term sweetheart deals with taxpayer subsidies and profit guarantees using P3s. P3s give a private corporation the power to tax the public, whether through charging tolls or other so-called ‘user fees,’ to access their own public infrastructure, and, perhaps more insidious, allowing well-connected private entities to profit from concessions on land taken through eminent domain. Why shouldn’t the original landowner be able to profit from developing his/her land instead of having the government take it in the name of a “public use” and give it to another developer, one with government connections? Perry’s administration of P3s is like his administration of his Emerging Technology Fund that’s been highly criticized for steering taxpayer money to Perry’s campaign donors — a case in point, Dan Shelley. Shelley worked for Cintra, who had its sites set on developing the Trans Texas Corridor. Shelley lands a job as Perry’s aide, steers the $7 billion corridor P3 to his former employer Cintra, then goes back to work for Cintra. That’s how Perry does business — pay to play. Texas “Open for Business” While Perry is staking his campaign on Texas being the top net jobs creator, Perry’s version of Texas being “Open for Business” isn’t about low taxes and less regulation as much as it is about doing business with foreign companies, including selling off Texas’ sovereign land and public assets to foreign creditors, an issue which Perry’s first television ad uses to take aim at President Obama. Aside from the P3s, Texas has 20 active deals going with the Chinese and has 32 foreign trade zones (FTZs), a vehicle to ease the flow of foreign goods into the United States that are chalk full of tax breaks for importers. Perry’s office promoted these FTZs in a document entitled Foreign Trade Zones: Texas Wide Open for Business and even dedicates a web site for Texas FTZs, www.TexasWideOpenForBusiness.com. A recent Washington Post article documents Perry’s work to get Chinese government-owned telecommunications company Huawei, to base its U.S. operations in Texas, a company that the U.S. government has deemed a threat to national security noting that “three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.” Perry’s coziness with the Chinese and foreign investors exposes a huge weakness in his right flank — illegal immigration and open borders. The Trans Texas Corridor has been linked to the global plan to economically integrate North America, with the eventual goal of a common security perimeter modeled after the European Union. Perry ushered in in-state tuition for illegals and has long been an obstacle to immigration reform or any Arizona-style immigration law. Perry’s record paints a much different picture than what candidate Perry would have us believe — that he’s a states rights, Constitutionally limited government conservative that’s responsible for the “Texas miracle.” In reality, he’s more like an Agenda 21 globalist willing to sell America to the highest bidder. ##### Terri Hall is a homeschool mother of eight children and the Founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom or TURF. TURF is a non-partisan, grassroots, all-volunteer group defending citizens’ concerns with Agenda 21, toll road policy, public private partnerships, and eminent domain abuses. TURF promotes non-toll transportation solutions.Rick Perry tied to Agenda 21, globalist policies, 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating |