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Posted on 11/03/2011 9:18:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rick Perry says Texas is the most successful state in America. He's right. Texan economic output exceeds Mexico's and Australia's and rivals India's. Rick Perry has been governor of Texas for nearly 11 years. Does the logic of politics lead us to conclude that the governor of the nation's most successful state, ipso facto, is the best man to be president of the economically gasping United States?
We are about to find out. Getting lost, however, among the governor's adventures in the lovely hamlets of New Hampshire is that Texas, with or without him, has a story the rest of the U.S. should hear—the parts of the country that want a better economy than they've got now.
Texas, unlike California, isn't America's most beautiful state. Through October this year, parts of Texas had 90 days of 100+ temperatures. Yet companies and people keep moving into the high heat of Texas.
Rick Perry's argument for himself is rooted in accounts of his efforts to bring companies to Texas. But the desire of businesses to sample Texas trail dust pre-dates Rick Perry. In 1990, one of the world's biggest companies, Exxon Mobil, left New York City for Dallas. Exxon's former CEO, Lee Raymond, says the move in part was indeed about costs and New York State's notoriously overbearing tax authority. But it was also about working amid a culture of competence. "It's just the attitude in Texas of getting things done and doing them well," he says.
Mr. Raymond remarks that the economic policies that in time trapped the Northeast and Rust Belt in spirals of decline never touched Texas. But this is about something beyond low taxes and no unions.
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ah - “if your are a texan” was to explain, that we who live here know the details of our legislature which would not be familar to folks in say California. Our legislature meets every two years - that means not many bills are passed because most of the folks that go to Austin have to return to their homes and work under any rules they passs, so they don’t pass much. Which is my the “executive” does very little harm. I saw your “handle calex” which to mean means you no longer live in Calif. and I also saw your “I’m for Cain line” - I was trying to show not just you but all who scan the messages - Perry has little to do with our laws and how business grows here. I thank you for your well thought out response to me...it showed we can have small disagreements without being small. thanks
The legislatures spend the vast majority of the time figuring out where the money goes and fine tuning. They also spend time KILLING ideas like the TransTexas Corridor a pet project of "not conservtive" Rick Perry. This huge land grab would have destroyed hundreds of farms, ranches and small businesses all in the name of giving Texans a toll road.
It has some areas that are spectacularly beautiful (Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, other parts of the Sierras, parts of the coast) but so do a number of other states. Alaska, Hawaii, Wahington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, to name a few.
RE: When did California officially become the most beauriful state?
I hate California’s politicians and what it has become, but I’ll say this for the Golden State — other than Hawaii, No other state in this country has better weather all year round.
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