14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President

The American Dream
August 14, 2011


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Supporters of Texas Governor Rick Perry are not going to like this article at all.  Right now, Republicans all over the United States are touting Rick Perry as the “Republican messiah” that is going to come charging in to save America from the presidency of Barack Obama.  Many believe that if Rick Perry enters the race, he will instantly become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.  Perry certainly looks the part and he knows how to give a good speech, but when ordinary Americans all over the country take a hard look at his record, they may not like what they see.  The truth is that Rick Perry is a big-time globalist, he has raised taxes and fees in Texas numerous times, he has massively increased the size of government spending and government debt in Texas, he has been trying to ram the Trans-Texas Corridor down the throats of the Texas people and he tried to force young women all over Texas to be injected with the Gardasil vaccine.  No, Rick Perry is not going to save America.  In fact, he would likely be very, very similar to both Bush and Obama in a lot of ways.

Right now, Rick Perry is trying to portray himself as a “good conservative” so that if he enters the race he will be accepted by Christian conservatives.  If Rick Perry did win the Republican nomination, he would have a great chance of winning the general election because he would very much be an “establishment” candidate.

But before Republicans get too excited about Rick Perry, there are a whole lot of things that they should know about him.

The following are 14 reasons why Rick Perry would be a really, really bad president….

#1 Rick Perry is a “big government” politician.  When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion.  Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion.  That is not exactly reducing the size of government.

#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control.  According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645.  In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932.  If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.

#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor.  So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?

#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system.  If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.

#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a “track record” of not raising taxes.  That is a false claim.  Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor.  Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.

#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.

#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president.  In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore’s campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.

#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent.  In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.

#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation.  The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year….

•  We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.

•  We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.

•  We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.

#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007.  Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.

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#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.

#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue.  If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.

#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less.  By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.

#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade.  Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light.  Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do.  According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when “apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck’s hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work.”

Rick Perry has a record that should make all Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents cringe.

He is not the “conservative Republican” that he is trying to claim that he is.  He is simply another in a long line of “RINOs” (Republicans in name only).

If Rick Perry becomes president, he will probably be very similar to George W. Bush.  He will explode the size of the U.S. government and U.S. government debt, he will find sneaky ways to raise taxes, he will do nothing about the Federal Reserve or corruption in our financial system and he will push the agenda of the globalists at every turn.

Look, the truth is that another four years of Barack Obama would be a complete and total nightmare.

But so would four years of Rick Perry.

America deserves better than the “lesser of two evils”.

Unfortunately, the American people have been dead asleep and have been sending incompetents, con men and charlatans to Washington D.C. for decades.

Hopefully things will be different in 2012.






 
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  1. 1. Rick Perry is a Bilderburger (That should be enough to say HALT)
    2. Texas is in the top 10 in HS Dropout rates in the country.
    3. No one ever saw him go to bat for Texas when space shuttles were being handed out.
    4. He didn’t start talking prayer till he started running for President.
    5. If you vote for Perry, You are saying that you are happy with the way things are and have been and you want “The NEW WORLD ORDER” because if he gets president, he will be the one to implement it.

    6. If you vote for Ron Paul, you are voting for the goverment to stay out of you face, peace and someone who believes in taking care of their own at home and not policeing the world. He will wipe out the NeoCons with our help. Lets all go back to the simply way things used to be with less regulations. Regulations cost us $. Lets just all get along little doggie.

  2. Okay, now that Rick Perry has been assigned as hall monitor to his own floor in the deepest bowels of Hell, can anyone suggest:

    1. A candidate we can be for…
    2. Who truly believes in constitutionally limited government…
    3. Who truly can win the GOP nomination…
    4. Who actually can beat Obimbo?

    Ron Paul fits 1 and 2, but has absolutely no chance at 3 and 4. Sorry, Infowarriors, you gotta face facts. He will not be the GOP nominee and can not beat Obimbo.

    Ron Paul has all the right ideas about liberty, economics, the Constitution, ending the Federal Reserve, etc. He is good explaining issues on Neal Cavuto’s or Judge Napolitano’s shows. However, in debate settings he comes across like the kooky old man down the street no one wants to invite to the neighborhood barbecue. His voice is high-pitched and whiny, he stammers constantly and no matter how many Ron-Paul-a-maniacs howl approvingly at everything he says in Iowa, he’ll get stomped in the primaries.

    By now, many of you are frothing at the mouth, want me branded a traitor to the Republic and hanged by the neck until dead. Maybe there are a few who can see beyond all that and understand my point. If we want to rescue the country from the CFR, Trilateralists, Bilderburgs, Socialists, Feudalists, globalists, corporatists, etc., we need someone who not only share our ideals, but can persuade the rest of the country to join us.

    Ron Paul ain’t that man. So, who is?

    • There’s not one and hasn’t been one in my lifetime except maybe Kennedy.

  3. Frikkin poser, eh ?

  4. Rick Perry is the Buffoon’s Buffoon. What a poor excuse for a human being, much less a political candidate.

  5. #4 should be #1.

  6. Cannot believe how many GOPer Liberals actually believe that Rick Perry is a Conservative and a Christian. I am thoroughly convinced now that the GOP voters have about the same intelligence as the Democrat voters.

    Rick Perry will ensure 4 more years of Obama…esp if Obama and Company start getting into Slick Rick’s closet….

    • Rick Perry (Governor Pointy-Boots), is the 2012 Fred Thompson if the American People don’t allow themselves to be fooled by his fake conservative qualifications. Perhaps he will be rendered irrelevant by December…

    • Because mainstream media has promoted it and that is what they believe.

  7. I’m curious. Can we talk about something other than Ron Paul for a change? I think there are other more important news in the world today other than Ron Paul and Rick Perry. This stuff is getting old. I want to hear more about Libya, the U.S. police state, Pakistan and so on and so forth. Not this election crap.

  8. Rick Perry comes off more as a Televangelist then a politician. Watching him speak is like watching George Bush on steroids. I even caught him given a wink to someone in the crowd. I see it in that mans eyes that something ain’t right. He has a very distrustful demeanor. It really upsets me to think people will jump on his band wagon just because of his strong religious beliefs. Religion should not be a factor in who you vote for. History shows that when you mix religion with power you create evil!

  9. I can’t see him as President. I hate him.

    Maybe a model for Gentleman’s Quarterly.

  10. HOW TO MAKE 1000% ON YOUR MONEY. Get your insurance lobby to contribue one million dollars to the Rick Perry for Governor campaign. Boom. Legislature changes laws upping insurance rates $100 million in Texas. Slam dumk.

    Also Texas is a right to work state so effectively there is no union protection. There is also no general welfare like California or New York This is why we have the largest per-capital prison system in the world.

    If you like Bush, you’ll love Rick Perry.

  11. What a tool.

  12. Anyone else besides me catch the reference to the Seal team 6 and his use of the words sacrificial and sacrifice? when talking about their demise? I found it odd he would use these terms..unless of course you believe in the whole need for blood sacrifice and the cover up of 911

    • Nah he’s just a freemason bohemian grove attendee, he would’nt believe in none of that hocus-pocus crap….

  13. Off topic for this post but I see Qaddafi’s son has turned against him !

    nationofchange.org/seif-al-islam-el-qaddafi-challenges-his-fathers-role-1312652756

    And guess what Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi (his son) is friends with no other that the Rothschild’s, to be exact Nathaniel Rothschild.

    whoknowswho.channel4.com/people/Saif_Gaddafi

    Isn’t that a coincidence, one here for AJ I think ?

    • he resembles the guy playing W in the Oliver Stone movie.

  14. RICK PERRY IS SATAN REBORN !!!!

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