[CowboyJay]

Having owned and operated businesses, I actually understand the difference between being pro-business, and using corporate welfare schemes to fake growth numbers by buying jobs directly out of the state treasury. Texas has a fiscal time bomb ticking, and Perry’s trying to get out of Austin before it goes off.

We agree on smaller government and less domestic regulation. We disagree on that being a panacea. We need tariffs, or we’re not going to have an industrial sector left in another decade. Tariffs ARE pro-business. Pro AMERICAN business, and pro AMERICAN jobs. Tax finished goods coming in from other countries, and our domestic firms get an advantage in US markets rather than being at a disadvantage to companies who benefit from our military and our infrastructure, but don’t pay anything for their upkeep. It’s no accident that the few industries we have that are relatively healthy benefit from tons of protectionist intervention.

Texas’ jobs numbers, though better than most of the country are still a joke. They’re adding population faster than jobs just like everywhere else.

[casinva]

Cowboy,

Thanks for your response.

You are right that we stand together on our foundational principles at least. We both want true growth, more prosperity, and more jobs staying in our country. I believe there must be some kind of area between extreme protectionism that goes soooooo far that it runs American businesses out of our country and diminishes our nation’s attractiveness to business... and the total opposite... where we look the other way in everything that comes and goes.

It doesn’t really sound like you want the federal government to be overly controlling... over reaching, not really, and I don’t want to have a country that is at risk or is just some kind of sucker for another country, and I would guess neither of us want to have a loss... or lack... of jobs in our own country.

We do have a good starting point together at least, I believe, and with more conservative leaders looking out for things like this and how all the various details really work out together, on all the federal, state, local, and business levels, we’ll hopefully get in the right direction the best ways soon.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and insights on this issue.