Posted on 05/16/2014 9:56:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz says Gov. Rick Perry has done a good job leading the state but isn’t responsible for the booming economy that has created more than 1 million jobs in the decade he’s been governor.
“There isn’t a politician in this country who’s responsible for the economic growth we have,” Cruz said Friday. “The economic growth has come from the private sector, it’s come from entrepreneurs. Nothing drives me crazier than politicians who run around talking about the jobs they’ve created.”
He added: “Politicians are very good at killing jobs, but they don’t create jobs.”
Cruz and Perry, both Republicans, could be rivals should both decide to run for president in 2016.
Perry has traveled the country in recent months, saying his low-tax, low-regulation approach as governor since 2000 has been the driving force behind Texas’ tops-in-the-nation job growth. The state’s record of job creation under Perry is seen as his strongest selling point should he make another run for the White House.
Cruz said Perry and the Legislature deserve credit for enacting “laws that create an environment that allow small businesses to prosper and flourish, for not screwing up.
“But we should all be very clear. The jobs are not created by politicians. They are created by the private sector,” Cruz said.
The freshman senator made the remarks at a news conference while in Austin to address graduating ROTC students....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Politicians could take credit for not getting in the way of the private sector
He’s right, but Perry has aided in bringing jobs to Texas. It’s unfair to attack him on this front, when he can be more correctly criticized in other areas. Economically, he has been one of the best governors in the state’s history in such a cruddy national economy.
I don’t believe Perry will be a serious candidate ....... certainly not after his last run.
Cruz seems to want to take out Perry for his own political agenda. It’s disingenuous. Why not take on a real hack like Quinn in Illinois?
And well said by Ted. He knows his economics
Domestic energy production is extremely important to the economy in numerous ways not excluding your points.
“There isn’t a politician in this country who’s responsible for the economic growth we have,” Cruz said Friday. “The economic growth has come from the private sector, it’s come from entrepreneurs. Nothing drives me crazier than politicians who run around talking about the jobs they’ve created.”
He added: “Politicians are very good at killing jobs, but they don’t create jobs.”
Of course he’s right but he fails in that he does not understand that the policies and regulation DO cause job loss and loss of job creation by the private sector. Actually, I’m sure that he does but of course he is making his political arguments...
He needs to narrow his arguments though against Government regulations and not against individuals that he might be campaigning against! His bad..
How about some truth instead of fighting against fellow conservatives. Whenever another supposedly conservative candidate does that, he loses my vote.
Ted is correct but give Perry a break.
He has no real power as Gov.
Amen.
Ted is a smart guy, and I back him completely, but why rail against another smart gut on your side?
Take this article with a grain of salt.
Ted is being magnanimous and the journalists are trying to set him up against Perry who I fear is dead.
Ted Cruz was giving us conservative principle in his speaking and the liberal newspaper reporter had to spin it another way.
We have to get as far away as possible from a society where government officials, elected or unelected, Republican or Democrat, either claim to be the source of our food, shelter and clothing or actually become the source of our sustenance.
Rick Perry got the credit where he was due it, for signing laws and supporting policies that let businesses and individuals operate freely to drive the economy and create the jobs.
The media makes me soooooo angry.
I think the newspaper is playing its usual cute game of “let’s you and him fight”. I don’t think Cruz is slamming Perry, the paper just wants to pitch it as Republican criticizing Republican.
Gov. Ed Schafer, and then Gov. John Hoeven created a similar environment in ND, and when the technology came about to allow the exploitation of the oil in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations, the environment was conducive to that development.
The result has been tremendous, economically.
Ted....don’t be stupid
A CRUZ Broadside! The 2016 presidential primary season is now in full swing.
It’s oil. The price of oil went up and oil states boomed.
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Disagree. It’s a State’s Governor and Legislature that takes care NOT to pass into law rules, taxes and regulations that suppress the free market and entrepreneurs. ...That doesn’t just happen in “oil states”. Florida is an example and I think is #2 in incoming businesses.
Nobody is saying that the answer is no government.
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