Greg Abbott: 'We don’t need Barack Obama’s Promise Zones'
Attorney General Greg Abbott Friday dismissed the Obama administration’s new Promise Zone program, which has targeted five communities, including San Antonio’s Eastside neighborhood, for revitalization.
“The truth is, we don’t need Barack Obama’s Promise Zones; we already have Promise Zones and they are called entrepreneurs,” Abbott told the closing luncheon of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s three-day Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature.
“Entrepreneurs and free markets have created far more jobs than any government program ever has or ever will and Texas will continue to be the Promise Zone, the land of opportunity, because we will maintain our focus on policies that promote real job growth, policies that limit the size of government, that keep taxes low, that ensure that regulations remain smart and ensure we maintain the right to work laws that have enabled Texas to avoid the disasters of places like Detroit,” said Abbott.
As described by Shaun Donovan, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which will administer the Promise Zone program, “Federal agencies will be working with each other, and local leaders, like never before to give distressed communities — urban, rural and tribal — the assets they need to succeed, like good schools, safe streets and quality housing.”
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/greg-abbott-we-dont-need-barack-obamas-promise-zon/ncjbX/ .
[font color=green]After reading the comments to this article, I wonder whether anyone is going to vote for Greg.[/font]
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However, it is actually more billions that it will cost Texans because Perry refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA ($9 billion according to recent estimates). 