Perry: In Texas, it’s the policies, not the people, that have fueled job growth
WASHINGTON — Gov. Rick Perry’s stopped by the Capitol Hill Club for breakfast with the Texas State Society, a crowd of about 100 people made up mostly of Texans living or working in Washington. He was well received there, with many speaking lauding his leadership of their home state, where has been governor 12 years.
Flanked by portraits of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln, and seeming at ease, Perry’s mostly causal remarks sounded familiar themes: States are America’s “50 great laboratories of innovation.” Texas leads the way in job creation — and that, he said, has more to do with the policies his government and the Legislature have established than the any special characteristic of Texans themselves. “It’s not that it’s us,” he said. “I will submit it’s the policy. … It will work in California and in New Jersey and anywhere in the United States if you have men and women courageous enough (to put those policies in place.)”
Minimum wage proposals? Bad idea, he said. Any policy ought to be tested first for whether it kills or adds jobs. Later, during questions, a single voice attempted to take Perry to task for what the questioner said was an anti-knowledge agenda, citing fights over evolution at the state school board, opposition to scientific claims about climate change and the risk of hydraulic fracking. Ignoring the climate change question, he said the science supports the notion that fracking is safe. And he said evolution fights affect so few Texans it’s not worth all the attention paid to it.
Perry also talked about the changes in Mexico and how the nation’s decision to liberalize its energy policies will prompt many Mexicans now living in Texas to cross the border back home. That, Perry said, is going to create a real challenge for Texas to figure out how to encourage more native Texans to take the jobs the returning Mexicans leave.
More at http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/perry-in-texas-its-the-policy-not-the-people-that-have-fueled-job-growth.html/ .
[font color=green]Thanks for insulting the citizens of this state Prick! The reasons for job growth are related to your policy of job-poaching with other states, grants to crony capitalism funds that do not pay a return on investment and an exploding oil & gas exploration sector. If you continue to make this claim, then it will serve you well 
if you have the bollocks to run for president again.[/font]
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