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Texas Gov.
Rick Perry: It
Is Time to Get
America Working
Again
Announces the
launch of
presidential
campaign
CHARLESTON,
S.C. –
Determined to
get America
working again,
Texas Gov. Rick
Perry today
announced his
candidacy for
president of the
United States of
America while
speaking to an
overflow crowd
at the RedState
Gathering 2011.
Perry was joined
by his wife,
Anita, and their
adult children
at the
announcement.
“It is time to
get America
working again,”
Gov. Rick Perry
said. “That’s
why, with the
support of my
family, and an
unwavering
belief in the
goodness of
America, I
declare to you
today my
candidacy for
President of the
United States.”
“It is time for
Americans to
believe again –
to believe that
the promise of
our future is
far greater than
even the best
days of our
past. It is time
to believe again
in the potential
of private
enterprise, set
free from the
shackles of an
overbearing
federal
government. And
it is time to
truly restore
our standing in
the world and
renew our faith
in freedom as
the best hope of
peace in a world
beset with
strife.”
Perry
underscored the
urgent need for
new leadership
in light of the
continued
uncertainty and
instability in
the U.S.
economy,
continued
overreach by an
increasingly
intrusive
federal
government into
the lives of
Americans and
the rights of
the states, and
the misguided
policies that
are harming the
future
prosperity of
our country.
“One in six
work-eligible
Americans cannot
find a full-time
job,” Perry
continued. “That
is not a
recovery, that
is an economic
disaster.”
Perry spoke not
only of the need
for new
leadership to
create jobs, but
the need to get
serious about
federal
spending,
saying, “Mr.
President, you
can't win the
future by
selling it off
to foreign
creditors.”
Last week, that
failed
leadership, and
Barack Obama’s
tax, spend and
borrow agenda,
led to the first
ever downgrade
in the credit
rating of the
United States.
“In reality,
this is just the
most recent
downgrade,”
Perry said. “The
fact is for
nearly three
years, President
Obama has been
downgrading
American jobs,
downgrading our
standing in the
world,
downgrading our
financial
stability,
downgrading
confidence, and
downgrading the
hope of a better
future for our
children.”
As president,
Perry has
pledged to get
the federal
government’s
fiscal house in
order, restore
the country’s
good credit, and
repeal Obama’s
misguided
one-size-fits-all
government-run
health care
plan. He also
committed to
holding
government
accountable to
the taxpayers,
and adhering to
the fiscally
responsible
principles that
will lead to job
creation, and in
turn, wealth,
while educating
and innovating
in science,
technology,
engineering and
math to create
the jobs and
progress needed
to get America
working again.
“I will work
every day to
make Washington,
D.C. as
inconsequential
in your lives as
I can, and free
our families,
small businesses
and states from
a burdensome and
costly federal
government so
they can create,
innovate and
succeed,” he
continued. “With
the help and
courage of the
American people,
we will get our
country working
again.”
After announcing
his candidacy in
South Carolina,
Perry is set to
travel to New
Hampshire on
Saturday and
Iowa on Sunday
to begin a
vigorous
campaign in all
three early
states.
Rick Perry
Biography
Champion of
Conservative
Principles From
a Place Called
Paint Creek
The 47th
governor of
Texas, Rick
Perry grew up in
the small
community of
Paint Creek
located along
the rolling
plains of West
Texas. Rick
Perry is the son
of Ray Perry, a
World War II
tailgunner who
flew 35 missions
over war-torn
Europe, and
Amelia Perry,
who provided a
loving,
nurturing home
for Rick and his
older sister
Amelia. Ray and
Amelia Perry
started out as
tenant farmers,
providing a
modest
upbringing for
their children.
Rick Perry grew
up without
indoor plumbing
the first five
years of his
life, wore
clothes
hand-sewn by his
mother, and was
even bathed in a
number 2 washtub
as a young boy.
Perry was one of
13 students in
the Paint Creek
Rural School’s
Class of 1968.
He played
six-man
football, worked
on his family
farm,
and devoted
himself to the
Boy Scouts,
earning the rank
of Eagle while
in his teens.
Perry was among
the first
generation in
his family to
attend college,
enrolling at
Texas A&M
University in
the fall of
1968. He joined
the Fightin’
Texas Aggie
Corps of Cadets
and was elected
twice to serve
as an Aggie Yell
Leader. Perry
graduated in
August 1972 with
a bachelor’s
degree in Animal
Science.
Upon graduation,
Perry took a
commission in
the United
States Air
Force, flying
C-130 tactical
aircraft to
destinations
around the
globe, including
South America,
Europe and the
Middle East.
In 1977, Perry
was honorably
discharged from
the Air Force
with the rank of
Captain, and he
returned home to
the family farm,
where they grew
dryland cotton,
milo and wheat.
During the next
few years, Perry
would become one
of millions of
conservative
Reagan
Democrats, and
marry his high
school
sweetheart,
Anita Thigpen,
16 years after
their first
date.
In 1983, Rick
and Anita Perry
welcomed a son,
Griffin, and
their daughter
Sydney arrived
in 1986. It was
in 1984 that
Perry set his
sights on public
office, running
to represent his
rural neighbors
in the Texas
House. Perry
would serve
three terms in
the House,
ultimately
switching to the
Republican Party
toward the end
of his final
term, and taking
the bold step of
running
statewide
against populist
Democrat
Agriculture
Commissioner Jim
Hightower. Perry
upset Hightower
in 1990 and
easily won
re-election in
1994.
In 1998, Perry
defeated his
former Aggie
classmate and
the strongest
Democrat on the
ticket, John
Sharp, in a
close contest
for lieutenant
governor. Perry
became governor
in December 2000
after Governor
George W. Bush
resigned his
office weeks
before becoming
President.
Perry has since
won three full
terms as
governor,
vanquishing
billionaire
Democrat Tony
Sanchez by 18
points in 2002,
defeating a
four-candidate
field with a
nine-point gap
over the second
place finisher
in 2006, and
defeating both
Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchison
by 21 points in
the 2010 primary
and popular
Houston Mayor
Bill White by 13
points in the
2010 general
election.
The Prosperity
Agenda: Jobs,
Tax Relief,
Spending Cuts
A staunch fiscal
and social
conservative,
Rick Perry has
controlled
spending and
taxes in Texas.
Perry has signed
into law state
budgets that
have invested
billions of
dollars more in
education, and
he has
successfully
advocated for
landmark lawsuit
reforms.
In the most
recent 2011
regular
legislative
session, Perry
set a
conservative,
fiscally
responsible
course. He
insisted on no
new taxes,
worked with
legislators to
cut spending by
$15 billion, and
protected the
“Rainy Day
Fund,” which set
aside at least
$6 billion for
future needs.
Perry is the
only governor
since World War
II to reduce
state general
revenue
spending. Perry
also signed an
historic
property tax
cut, and a tax
cut for small
businesses with
less than $1
million in gross
receipts.
Perry has a
strong record on
job creation.
His support for
low taxes,
reasonable
regulations, a
predictable
civil litigation
system and an
educated
workforce has
produced a
business climate
consistently
ranked among the
best in the
nation. Perry
has actively
encouraged
employers to
relocate to
Texas or expand
their operations
in the state.
Since June 2009,
more than 40
percent of the
net new jobs
created in
America have
been created in
Texas, and
today, the Lone
Star State is a
magnet for
corporate
relocations. For
nine straight
years, Texas has
led the nation
in
exports to
foreign
countries among
the 50 states.
With a strong
record of job
creation,
restrained
spending and tax
cuts, Rick Perry
is a committed
conservative
with the right
vision for
creating
opportunity and
prosperity. He
has signed into
law
comprehensive
reforms that
have made Texas
a leader in the
fight against
lawsuit abuse.
These reforms
include a recent
loser pay law
that will cut
down on
frivolous
lawsuits. His
medical
liability
reforms have
increased the
number of
physicians
practicing in
the state by the
thousands,
improving
patient access
to medical
specialists.
The Perry record
also includes a
significant
commitment to
border security
to stop the
in-flow of
illegal
immigrants,
weapons and
drugs. Perry has
ordered border
surge operations
that have
reduced illegal
crossings, and
allocated
hundreds of
millions of
dollars for
border security
operations that
put more boots
on the ground
and utilize
technology to
detect, track
and deter the
criminal
element.
Liberty,
Security,
Prosperity
A candidate for
the Republican
nomination in
2012, Rick Perry
not only has a
record of
conservative
reform, but a
vision for
America based on
greater liberty,
security and
prosperity.
Perry will lead
the effort to
repeal
Obama-care, the
greatest
intrusion on
individual
freedom in a
generation. This
budget-busting,
government
takeover of
health care will
rob half a
billion dollars
from Medicare
and saddle
America with
massive tax
hikes and higher
costs in the
long term.
Recognizing that
rising deficits,
record debt and
failed stimulus
spending have
jeopardized the
future of our
country, Perry
will take his
proven
budget-cutting
record to
Washington. He
will reform
entitlements and
require all
federal agencies
to engage in a
top-to-bottom
review to
identify and
eliminate
federal waste by
justifying every
program and
every taxpayer
dollar spent.
To stimulate the
economy, Perry
will take
America on a
very different
course than that
pursued by the
Obama
Administration.
Instead of
wasting tax
dollars on
massive spending
bills that bloat
the federal
bureaucracy and
slowly deliver
funds to a few
handpicked
industries,
Perry will cut
taxes. Perry’s
pro-growth
agenda, combined
with real
spending
reductions, will
lead to a new
era of economic
growth that will
get America
working again.
Perry’s economic
policies stand
in stark
contrast to the
Obama
Administration,
and his Treasury
Secretary Tim
Geithner who
declared taxes
must increase
for small
businesses, “so
the
administration
does not have to
‘shrink the
overall size of
government
programs.’”
(CNSNews.com,
6/23/11, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/geithner-taxes-small-businessmust-rise).
Not only has
Perry cut taxes
for small
businesses, but
his economic
policies will
unleash the
entrepreneurial
spirit of small
employers so
they can hire
and grow again.
Perry will
invest in border
security and
stop the federal
intrusion upon
states by
runaway agencies
like the EPA. He
will stand for
the sanctity of
life and the
protection of
the unborn. He
will return our
country to
constitutional
principles,
including a
renewed respect
for the 10th
Amendment to the
United States
Constitution and
state
sovereignty.
Perry is a
national leader
in the effort to
restore the
primacy of the
10th Amendment,
and wrote the
book, “Fed Up”
to rally
Americans to
restore the
proper,
constitutional
balance between
the federal
government and
the states.
Perry’s first
book, “On My
Honor” defended
the values of
the Boy Scouts
from assaults by
the liberal
elite.
Believe Again
A Reagan
Republican, Rick
Perry will
restore
confidence in
the American
Dream and
American
Exceptionalism.
He will advocate
for economic
policies that
get our country
moving again. He
will work to
ensure all
Americans
believe again in
the promise of
America.
Rick Perry will
revive our
economy, create
jobs and protect
America’s place
as the world’s
economic leader.
He will offer a
clear vision for
our foreign
policy that is
based on
American
interests and a
profound respect
for the men and
women who wear
the uniform of
our country.
It’s time for a
leader who will
allow us to
believe again –
to believe that
America’s best
days are ahead,
that we are not
consigned to a
fate of high
unemployment and
rising prices,
and that our
place in the
world can once
again be secure
with a policy of
peace through
strength.
That leader is
Rick Perry. And
his time is now.
Source:
Rick Perry For President 2012
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