Thanks for the lead in! Texas is thriving for any number of reasons.
· Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Texas Continues to be a Top State for Families who are Relocating
Everything's bigger in Texas – including its appeal as a destination for residents in 2010, according to Allied Van Lines' 43rd Annual Magnet States Report released today.
For the sixth year in a row, Texas eclipsed every other state and took the lead as the No. 1 magnet state in 2010 based on Allied's report, which tracks U.S. migration patterns.
"Today there are more Fortune 500 companies located in Texas than any other state in the union," said Bill Dircks, president of Berger Transfer & Storage, Inc. "With our branch locations in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, we've serviced a large number of relocations into the state this past year. A healthy business climate, coupled with family-friendly cities, makes Texas a very attractive place to work and live."
Article via Brookings »
Texas Ranked Top Exporting State for 9th Consecutive Year
Texas has been ranked the top exporting state in 2010 for the ninth year in a row, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, signaling Texas' ongoing role in leading the nation toward economic recovery.
"Texas' ranking as the nation's top exporter for nine years running is a testament to our strong economy and the importance of upholding low taxes, reasonable regulations, a fair legal system and an equipped workforce," Gov. Perry said. "Although Texas has not been immune to the global recession, our commitment to these priorities has helped make us the best place to live, work and raise a family, and businesses looking to escape over-taxation and over-regulation know they can come to Texas for a better chance at success."
Texas continues to outperform the rest of the nation in job creation, maintaining an unemployment rate a point lower than the national average, creating more jobs in 2010 than any other state, and achieving a job growth rate in 2010 nearly double that of any other top ten state.
Article via Census.gov » and
via WiserTrade.org »
· Friday, October 29, 2010
Wall Street Journal Says Texas is "Where the New Jobs Are"
The Wall Street Journal called Texas the place where new jobs are being created in a Review & Outlook piece Tuesday, describing Texas as a "mecca for high tech, venture capital, aeronautics, health care and even industrial manufacturing like the building of cars and trucks."
Noting Texas' status as the nation's top home for newly-created jobs, the Journal compared Texas with other large states, including California, New York and New Jersey, which all continued to post job losses in September.
"This continues a longer term trend," the Journal wrote. "Over the last year, as the economy was beginning to grow again, the Lone Star State has led the nation with the addition of nearly 153,000 jobs, while California surrendered 43,700, New Jersey lost 42,300 and New York dropped 14,600."
Article via Wall Street Journal (for subscribers) »
From: Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of patrick mc govern
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That has nothing to do with education. Texas's economy is centered around Big Oil and Energy companies that are basically recession proof. You can lead people to knowledge but you can't make them think
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From: Julie Dinkins-Borkowski <julie@borkowskifamily.com>
Subject: RE: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Re: Save America
To: Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 9:11 PM
And it is my right at their parent to choose how my children are educated. Especially here in Texas where we have a strong backing for parental rights. Texas has a pretty strong economy compared to the rest of the states. Hmmmm Imagine that. PJ From: Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Walt L
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Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Re: Save America Whoa, Nellie. Let's not toss the wet blanket over ALL home schooling. It's true religion plays a key role in some cases, however some children benefit from the more "personal" touch it can bring. My state of Washington requires a pretty firm "competency to teach" testing system. Many college professors often find these children to be excellent students, but often lacking in social skills. I would argue that such skills are an absolute necessity in the working world. Many parents can be superb teachers. The key is to not cloister the student from life as it is on the outside, of whatever the home environment is. Religious instruction needs to be done with care. Remember the LOVE intended, as well as the laws. Basing all education upon one theme is not healthy. I hold real fear of the passing of prejudices from parent to child, than I fear home schooling in the three R's. I will say my opinions are based upon a "liberal theology." Walt
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> Like I said, its mostly religious fanatics that believe in homeschooling and they honestly believe that they are better at everything than the real experts.
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> Stupid woman, if every parent took ten years off work to teach their child and the gov paid for it HAH, who is going to teach the parent to teach???? a computer?
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> Pure nonsense....but thats all any Tea Bagger can offer....homeschooling in this country is usually the result of Religious Fanatics, most of them clearly on the Right. Amazes me that these wackos actually believe they're more qualified to teach their kids better then real teachers who train for it for years
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> ChronWatch â€" March 1, 2011
> Save America: Homeschool!
> By Lee Duigon
> With the teachers’ union in New Jersey publicly praying for Gov. Chris Christie’s death, and the teachers’ union in Wisconsin shutting down the schools while they protest at the state house â€" they’ve enticed their students to join them, and found corrupt doctors to give them “sick notes†so they can be paid for walking off the job â€" can we as a nation please, finally, admit that the time has come to abolish public education?
> Public education is the teachers’ unions. And what are the teachers’ unions all about?
> Listen to Robert Chanin, who retired last year as general counsel for the National Education Association, the world’s biggest teachers’ union. In his farewell address, Chanin told us what the teachers’ union is all about. (Video of his speech is readily available on YouTube.) After complaining about “conservative ba****rds†picking on the poor little NEA with its three million members, Chanin boasted about the “hundreds of millions†of dollars the union contributes every year to left-wing politics and politicians. He called the NEA “the nation’s leading advocates for public education and the types of liberal social and economic agenda that these [right-wing] groups find unacceptable†â€" including homosexual “marriage,†ObamaCare, heavy-handed statist measures to “save the planet†from imaginary man-made Global Warming, all sorts of taxpayer-funded largesse to illegal aliens, and so on. All of these, and many more, are found
> on the list of formal resolutions adopted by the NEA at its 2010 national convention.
> Meanwhile another big fat teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, spent $1.4 million last year, in the middle of a recession, on its 50th anniversary bash. Said UFT President Michael Mulgrew: “I’m not going to apologize for spending money to service our members.†His choice of words is telling.
> Where do the teachers’ unions get those hundreds of millions of dollars â€" not to mention a few hundred thousand for golf lessons at fancy country clubs â€" which they donate, annually, to try to turn America into a socialist hell-hole? From teachers’ union dues, of course â€" dues that must be paid whether the individual teacher wants to support “gay marriage†or not.
> Here’s how the system works. Democrat politicians sign the unions to sweetheart contracts â€" the sweeter, the better. The more they pay the teachers, the more money the union can collect in dues. Having collected the dues, the union leadership transfers boxcar-loads of money to Democrat political campaigns. It isn’t much of an exaggeration to describe the teacher unions as the funding machine of the American Left.
> And all the while, in the public schools, union members teach America’s children a catechism of big government, evolution, “celebration†of aberrant sexual behaviors, atheism, abortion, anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Christianity. Any teacher who does not do so is simply not following the union’s agenda. But we suspect, because a majority of teachers elect the radical union leaders and adopt the radical resolutions, that the majority of public school teachers have signed on to the agenda.
> And so it goes. Work nine months out of the year, gain tenure, rake in princely benefits that people in the real world can only fantasize about, retire at 55, and enjoy a handsome pension for doing jack-diddly nothing for the rest of your life. The politicians force the ungrateful peasants to pay for it all. And if their kids come out of your schools just a little better educated than a throw rug â€" tough!
> We can’t afford these crazy contracts anymore. We can’t afford those teacher pensions, the like of which are so far out of our own reach that they might as well be on Mars. And we can’t afford to have our children’s minds massaged by teachers’ unions!
> Any Christian who supports the public schools is siding with the enemy. But if Christians en masse removed their children from the public schools, the whole financial edifice would come crashing down.
> Kill the teachers’ unions, and radicalism in America dies.
> It’s hardly necessary to cite the inexhaustible statistics that show homeschooled children, and children educated in Christian schools, dramatically outperforming public school students by every academic measure known to man. If you’re not doing one or the other, look into it today.
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