The GOP Debate & Obama Jobs Plan
And in This Corner..... With the new kid on the GOP block (Perry) threatening all the others, the gloves came off, and he said he felt like a piñata. Jobs Perry countered the moderator’s charge of Texas being low in education and poverty (but high in employment, so low-paying jobs) by touting creating a million jobs – some 90% above minimum wage [that’s good?]. Romney was charged w. low Massachusetts job creation and being a private sector “buyout specialist.” He countered with how Mass. was in freefall, turned around & created more jobs in Mass. Than Obama in the nation. And he started businesses & made other more successful. He noted Texas has more people, resources, favorable business climate & Republican legislature – none of which he had in Mass. And the zinger was that Perry taking credit for those jobs is like Al Gore saying he invented the internet. And when Perry said that Mitt’s predecessor Dukakis created 3 times as many jobs, Romney fired back that Perry...