Perry's Jobs Plan By the Numbers: Makes NO mention of ANY industry other than ENERGY

[Mugsy]

Via "Mugsy's Rap Sheet"

Rick Perry finally released his “Energizing American Jobs and Security” plan Friday. 40 pages long (plus a cover page), Perry’s “jobs” plan is focused ENTIRELY on “energy” production. Ditto when it comes to “security”. In fact, Perry’s plan is SO singularly focused on energy that I found myself searching for ANY mention of ANY other industry. None, nada, zip. Likewise, with the word “Security” in the title, you’d expect SOME mention of terrorism or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A big goose-egg there too (“Iraq” IS mentioned, but only as a competing oil producer.)

So I performed a “quick & dirty” word-search of Perry’s “Jobs” Plan searching for ANY reference to industries OTHER than energy (note, I know a “word-search” analysis is a bit unfair, but still quite informative). Hope you like oil!

Number of times key words are found in Rick Perry’s 40 page “Jobs” plan:

(word matches for all forms, including plurals, “ing” & “ed” endings, etc.)

“computer”: zero
“electronic”: zero
“infrastructure”: three times. Once referring to “EPA Research”, and twice referring to “pipeline” infrastructure.
“farm” or “agriculture”: zero
“health care”: zero
“rail”: zero
“textiles”: zero (cloth & clothing)
“iron” or “steel”: “Iron”-zero. “steel” once (in reference to increased steel production in Pennsylvania for pipelines. This is surprising considering he announced his “jobs plan” from a PA steelmill!)
“automotive”, “car” or “truck”: zero (surprising, since I expected at least ONE reference to vehicles using the oil/gas produced.)

(I’m running out of industries by now)

“green”: appears once to criticize “inefficient and uncompetitive green energy programs”.
“technology” (other than energy): zero
“battery” or “batteries”: zero (surprising considering how “Energy” is the sole focus of Perry’s “Jobs” plan.)
“hybrid”: zero
“education” or “teach”: zero
“manufacturing”: three times and ONLY in the context of oil & gas production.

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“Obama”: 28 times.
“Bush”: zero

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Read the full list at "Mugsy's Rap Sheet".

[Scuba]

1. When you're completely funded by big oil and religious zealots, there' not much else. n/t

[Ilsa]

2. K & fn R from deep in the heart of TX. nt

[Mugsy]

3. Posted from "deep-n-d-hearta".

Posted from Tejas too. :)

I encourage everyone to read the full list on M.R.S.