What a great job outlining why Texas has been such a success. I especially liked this exchange between the two:
Melissa: Speaking of which, Texas has created half a million private sector jobs since 2009. You’ve cut more than 30,000 state and local government jobs.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: yeah.
Melissa: would you say that’s a victory? other places would say, oh, you cut government jobs.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: No, no we want to cut government jobs. we want more private sector jobs. Over the last three years, Texas has created more net new jobs than the rest of the country combined. Think about that. 8{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of the population has created more than 92{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of the population in jobs.
Melissa: Why is cutting government jobs important? Other people say that is taking money out of the economy.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: No, no.
Melissa: Well let me hear it. Fight for the other side.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: I’m in the oil and gas business. been in it all my life. I’ve been Lieutenant Governor almost 10 years. And what you want to do is create productive jobs. With all due respect, you need a certain amount of people in government but when we cut government that is reducing the costs that the taxpayers, that they have to pay. So that is good thing.
Melissa: Yeah the money to pay government workers doesn’t come thin air, it comes from taxes.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: And that’s why we have one of the lowest tax rates in the entire country.
Amen to that! I’m excited to see that Lt. Gov. Dewhurst is going to continue to push the Texas Legislature to keep taxes low, keep the regulatory burden light, and fight for Texans. I’ve met and interviewed a lot of smart businessmen and politicians but none smarter or quicker with numbers than David Dewhurst. I have no doubt that Texas will continue to lead the country economically.
Great guy, he is as good as his boss, Gov.Perry.
If only his ads against Ted Cruz had not been so relentlessly deceptive, I would not have been left at the end of the primary runoff having no further use for Mr Dewhurst.
David Dewhurst is the modern version of Texas' "good-ol'boys". While he is fairly conservative, in past legislative sessions in Austin he has done his share of "horse-trading" with the DEMS – infuriating the real conservatives.