Rick Perry - Next President of the USA

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Great leader and was an outstanding governor for Texas.

Lead the 2nd biggest state in the USA for 14 years, and Texas economy boomed under him

He was instrumental in luring business from California to re locate in Texas. Just a few miles from my house they are starting to build Toyota Corp headquarters bringing 4000 jobs to Texas from Cali

When the Federal Government wouldn't do their part to help protect the US/Mexico border in Texas, Perry sent in the Texas Nat'l Guard and also the State Police also to protect the border.

Hope to see a seasoned vet running the USA and bringing back the mental toughness that a US President needs to express to the rest of the world.....

[Jacque67 7,328]

So give us the gossip.

Does he hang out at "Gentlemans Clubs"??

[Teddy B 17,251]

And he's got a great gag reflex!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And he's got a great gag reflex!

You can almost see the other end poking out behind his jaw.

Hope to see a seasoned vet running the USA and bringing back the mental toughness that a US President needs to express to the rest of the world.....

What a ridiculous rationale for a voting choice. It's not about policy or your personal self interest, it's about appearance.

Somehow that doesn't seem to be what democracy should be about.

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

Perry is a toxic buffoon. I enjoy visiting VJ just to read that there are actually people who would support a numbnuts like this.

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9 Completely Bonkers Things Rick Perry Believes About The Constitution

by Ian Millhiser, Think Progress, June 4, 2015

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce his bid to seek the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday. It will be Perry’s second attempt to secure a home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Perry showed commendable candor in the lead-up to his 2012 bid regarding his unorthodox views about the Constitution. Most politicians who hope to win a national election, for example, would not openly admit that they believe that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional.

Yet Perry was remarkably honest about his belief that federal programs that millions of American depend upon for their health and livelihood somehow violate America’s founding principles. In 2010, he published a book, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, laying out his narrow understanding of the Constitution in considerable detail. He also gave numerous speeches and made multiple television appearances touting his belief that much of the last century of American history was a constitutional error.

Here are some of Perry’s more surprising beliefs:

1) Social Security And Medicare Are Unconstitutional

The Constitution permits the federal government to “lay and collect taxes” and to use the funds raised by these taxes to “pay the debts andprovide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.” This provision lays out the constitutional basis for federal spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and numerous other such programs that seek to advance the general welfare.

Perry, however, believes these programs are unconstitutional. “I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term ‘general welfare’ in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care,” Perry told the Daily Beast’s Andrew Romano in 2011.

He offered similar views in a 2010 address to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) National Policy Summit. Proclaiming that “the nearly unlimited scope of the federal government contradicts the principles of limited, constitutional government that our founders established to protect us,” Perry claimed that an assault on this principles “continued into the Roosevelt New Deal.” He then named “a bankrupt Social Security system” as an example of a New Deal program he opposed.

Later, in the same speech, he claimed that President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society “further eroded our founding fathers’ boundaries that they had put upon the federal government.” He also specifically named Medicare as an example of Johnson’s supposed sins against the Constitution.

2) All Other Federal Health Programs Are Also Unconstitutional

Perry also listed Medicaid in his ALEC speech as an example of a Great Society program that, he believes, violates the Constitution. Similarly, his statement that Congress’s constitutional authority to spend money does not permit “a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care” sweeps broadly, implicating all federal health care programs. So that means that programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program or much of the Affordable Care Act would also cease to exist under Perry’s vision.

Perry has also made statements suggesting that any federal laws regulating the health care industry are unconstitutional. “There is nothing in that Constitution that says Washington D.C. is supposed to be telling us how to deliver health care,” the former Texas governor told a crowd of New Hampshire voters in 2011, reiterating a view he’dexpressed on Glenn Beck’s now-defunct Fox News show a few months earlier. Taken to its extreme, this view would not only prevent federal regulation of health insurers and hospitals, but it would also eliminate the Food and Drug Administration’s power to keep dangerous drugs and quack remedies out of pharmacies.

3) Federal Clean Air Laws Are Unconstitutional “Nonsense”

Perry also claimed that the notion that the federal government is “telling us how to . . . clean our air is really nonsense.” It’s likely, moreover, that Perry’s objections to environmental regulations extend far beyond the Clean Air Act. A section of Fed Up! argues that the Supreme Court has read Congress’s power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states” too broadly. Although Perry does not explain in detail how he would interpret this provision of the Constitution, he does suggest that Congress has overreached its constitutional authority in a long list of policy areas, including “the environment,” “guns,” and “civil rights.”

4) Federal Education Programs Are Unconstitutional

In his Beck interview, Perry denounced federal laws which “tell[] us how to educate our children.” Similarly, in Fed Up!, Perry criticized members of his own party for supporting federal education legislation. Their decision to do so, Perry claims, is a “perfect example of Republicans losing sight of the fact that perfectly laudable policy choices at the local level are not appropriate (much less constitutional) at the federal level.”

5) Nearly All Federal Laws Protecting Workers Are Unconstitutional

Fed Up! labels the the New Deal “the second big step in the march of socialism,” and blames the Supreme Court for allowing New Deal laws to take effect “by abdicating its role as the protector of constitutional federalism.” One decision that Perry singles out for criticism is NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., a 1937 decision upholding the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 — a federal law that still provides much of the backbone of the nation’s law governing unions. It should be noted that Jones & Laughlin‘s reasoning also provides the basis for other federal regulation of the employment relationship, such as minimum wage laws or the ban on child labor. So it is likely that those laws would cease to exist under Perry’s reading of the Constitution as well.

Later in Fed Up!, Perry argues in favor of a kind of special rule permitting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans various forms of employment discrimination, to exist. It’s not entirely clear whether Perry believes that all of the Civil Rights Act is consistent with his idiosyncratic view of the Constitution, or merely its prohibitions on race discrimination. Nevertheless, while Perry would strip away most nationwide protections for workers, he would apparently leave at least some civil rights protections in place.

6) Federal Financial Reform Is Unconstitutional

Citing an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking public comment on regulations being considered to implement the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, Perry’s book claims that “there is a better way to ensure that local communities are represented in government. If the Constitution were shown the appropriate respect, Washington regulation writers wouldn’t have to worry about underrepresented views, because they wouldn’t have control over them in the first place.” It’s unclear just how far Perry would go in rolling back Wall Street regulation, although this passage suggests that he would go quite far.

7) Voters Should Not Be Able To Choose Their Own Senators

Perry also claims that “[t]he American people mistakenly empowered the federal government during a fit of populist rage in the early twentieth century by giving it an unlimited source of income (the Sixteenth Amendment) and by changing the way senators are elected (the Seventeenth Amendment).“ The Seventeenth Amendment provides for direct election of senators, rather than having senators be selected by state legislatures — a process that was abandoned, at least in part, because it led to considerable corruption.

8) Taxing Investment Income Should Be Unconstitutional

The Sixteenth Amendment provides that “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” It was ratified to overrule an 1895 Supreme Court decision which effectively declared taxation of income from capital unconstitutional, though it permitted taxation of income from wages or salaries. The upshot of this decision is that a wealthy heir who lives entirely off of inherited investments would pay no taxes, while the heir’s pool cleaner would be taxed on their wage.

Perry’s claim that the Sixteenth Amendment was a mistake suggests that he would go back to this regime.

9) But Activist Judges Are A Serious Problem

Having laid out a long list of laws he thinks should be declared unconstitutional, Fed Up! pivots to a rant against Supreme Court justices who act as “‘Grand Ayatollahs’ of the Constitution.” He objects to Supreme Court decisions supposedly dictating “where we may and may not pray to God, when life begins, whether contraception must be allowed to be sold, whether and how we can celebrate religious holidays, what level of pornography and vulgarity must be allowed, whether those other than man and woman must be allowed to marry, what level of discrimination may or even must be carried out . . . whether a state must allow women to attend an all-male military academy, who may be executed and whether we may execute criminals at all.”

Perry, in other words, believes there should be strict limits on the Supreme Court’s power to hand down decisions he disagrees with, even as he insists upon using the Constitution as a weapon to erase whole swaths of American law.

Link to article - http://tinyurl.com/qccj7b7

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Perry is a toxic buffoon. I enjoy visiting VJ just to read that there are actually people who would support a numbnuts like this.

At this point, the GOP wants anyone to get President Obama out of the White House. A baked potato could run on the platform that it's not Obama and gain some traction...

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At this point, the GOP wants anyone to get President Obama out of the White House. A baked potato could run on the platform that it's not Obama and gain some traction...

A Baked potato would have more leadership ability then what we have in the White House now

We have a black Jimmy Carter in the Whitehouse now, Obama has no backbone or spine......

Rick Perry led Texas for 14 years, Obummer has 7 years leading anything

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Yeah, plus he has glasses now so he's a smart.

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Yeah, plus he has glasses now so he's a smart.

He is very smart. Texas had benefited greatly from Perry luring companies away from other states to settle in Texas. I live in Frisco and we are booming here in business, Perry has lured many large companies to Texas and they have started building Toyota and Liberty Mutual headquarters on the Plano/Frisco border. He has kept the state economy going

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/28/toyota-moving-us-headquarters-plano-texas/

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/liberty-mutual-confirms-its-bringing-5000-jobs-to-new-plano-campus.html/

Edited June 5, 2015 by VOL

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60 companies have left California and moved to Texas thanks to Rick Perry....

http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/Companies-California-Texas-Perry/2014/04/04/id/563795/

[Jacque67 7,328]

Well Mr. Oops is probably screwed because of his criminal indictment.

Remember Rosemary Lehmberg's drunken driving incident and Perry vetoing 7.5 million for the anti corruption unit in Texas?

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At this point, the GOP wants anyone to get President Obama out of the White House. A baked potato could run on the platform that it's not Obama and gain some traction...

How is anyone running for president going to effect Obama's time in the White house by a microsecond? We all know exactly when he is leaving regardless of who or who does not run.