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 ...
So, explain to me what the price of oil had to do with companies like Toyota USA moving its entire footprint in Kalifornja to Texas?
Not to say that oil had nothing to do with it but the number of companies and people fleeing the Golden Fleece State were making business and economic decisions to move brought on by the political climate.
When Perry is running around doing interviews touting how he has brought or created jobs in Texas . . . .
Cruz’s point is spot on for all politicians and he can use Perry as an example because he is number one about blowing his own horn about it. He was not aiming at Perry but instead trying to change the template and get us talking about the truth in facts rather than soap box blather.
That's the way Cruz should've said it. I'm a little surprised his wording wasn't more clever, by saying things your way.
“the Legislature deserve credit for enacting “laws that create an environment that allow small businesses to prosper and flourish,....”
If this is true, then the co-equal executive branch, (governor), deserves equal credit for signing it into law and enforcing it.
“I would prefer Ted direct his attention more towards to democrats.”
Amen to that.
“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.”
AND Perry would certainly get the BLAME, (deserved or not), (can you say George W. Bush?), if things went south.
Mexicalifornia is. Businesses are jumping ship
...but Obama said “they didn’t build that”....lol
Since you’re a “Native Texan”, I’m sure you also understand how your forebears were also responsible by setting it up so the Legislature only meets for a limited number of days and every other year. Gives ‘em less of a chance to screw it up!
/johnny
Cruz knows he has to carry Texas if he has any chance and Perry has a very good machine there.
And not only that, Perry went out and brought more industry to Texas."
Yes, he did. But I don't think what Cruz said was an attack---nor do I think Perry would disagree with him.
It sounds like this paper might want to try and stir up something between Cruz and Perry where there is nothing.
Man, someone who “gets” it.
That is basically what I have said to people for year ... that gov’t can only create an environment friendly to business. Politicians never create jobs, just destroy them.
Thank you Senator Cruz for stating that publically.
Every time Cruz opens his mouth, I like him more. The only way politicians “create” jobs is to get out of the way of the private sector...
It sounds like this paper might want to try and stir up something between Cruz and Perry where there is nothing.
That may very well be the case.
“Nobody is saying that the answer is no government.”
Regardless, that wasn’t my point. I was simply disagreeing with the premise that politicians don’t create jobs. For one thing, a government job can be both necessary and a benefit to non-government businesses and jobs. For example, consider a policeman. No police is as bad as too many police.
If a politician hires more police to maintain the rule of law, that doesn’t only create new work (jobs) for those citizens who become police. It also helps control crime so that private businesses can prosper and potentially create more jobs themselves.
It’s true that government jobs are dependent on income that comes from the private economy (that was probably what Cruz was getting at), but my point is simply that governments do create jobs—real jobs that can benefit the economy and enable it to prosper. The key is finding the right balance so that government doesn’t end up harming the private economy.
I don’t know of anyone who is claiming there should be no police or government. There might be a few who think businesses should create private police forces and fire departments, but again, that wasn’t the gist of my post.
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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.
Yup, Cruz was correct on both points, and then the newspaper twisted it.
The media is destroying out country.
The media in this country is evil.
So they moved the headquarters closer to their manufacturing. A lesson that should be paid attention to everyone who thinks we can off-shore manufacturing and keep the headquarters and design elements in the U.S..
Government jobs leech resources from the private sector. A necessary evil to some degree, but definitely something to be minimized. That is, each government job above the minimum required for a functional society takes more than the equivalent resources from the growth part of our economy—as well as being funded under the power of force.
And, of course, we haven’t been below that minimum level for hundreds of years, if ever at all. Such government-created jobs therefore aren’t really relevant to our current situation.
Surely you don’t disagree but that Perry hasn’t “created” private sector jobs in Texas?
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