'California is looking at our backside,' Texas Gov. Rick Perry says in San Francisco

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117. Rick Perry makes me very proud of Governor Brown...

I'm proud of the fact that he would never go to another state and beg companies to move their operation to California. Why would Rick Perry do this. Is the overall intelligence of Texas such that nobody is smart enough or creative enough to develop a business. Is it so bad that they have to go begging in states that are able to afford their citizens the creative license and freedom to create a new business. I think the social climate in California is such that people feel free enough to be creative while in Texas, people have to be more concerned with just toeing the line so they can exist without fearing that they will be ostracized for thinking outside the box.

I had a friend who has a high paying and interesting career with a company that did move to Texas. He was offered a lot of money to relocate. He and his wife visited the area in Texas where his company was relocating. Housing was extremely affordable, but he said no. He said that he was a democrat from California and knew he and is family could never be happy there. Then a few others he worked with followed suit. Today, they all still work for the company, but in small satellite office in Northern Ca.

It worked out for my friend. But he is a bright creative guy and it would have worked out for him in Ca. whether he left the company or not.

Rick Perry is living proof that smart, creative people have no business in Texas.