Tag: George W. Perry

Government doesn’t create any jobs. They can actually run jobs away.

– Texas Gov. Rick Perry, June 28, 2011

Since June 2009, 40 percent of the new jobs in this country were created in Texas. We’ve got only 10 percent of the population, but 40 percent of the new jobs.

– Perry on Aug. 13, announcing his run for the presidency, quoting job figures that are mostly attributable to oil companies’ hiring as a result of their price gouging of consumers on the price of gasoline