jobs. who will lay out a land which will get america working. what i did this morning is give confidence to job creators that they know for a fact they will be able to risk their capital and have a run on their investment. they know that they are not going to be losing jobs because of regulations that are killing these jobs all across the country. that is what americans are looking for. that is what we will stay focused on. are you concerned that the flat tax proposal will benefit mostly the wealthy. here is what we are interested, getting americans back working. if folk whose have money create the jobs i don t have a problem in the world with that. that is very, very important. that we focus on getting americans back to work. when you put a flat tack of 20 percent in place on the personal standpoint or 20 percent flat tax in place for corporate, that is the type of confidence
the occupy movement has gone global. what began as a public demonstration in a small park in lower manhattan today spread to cities around the world. you see it there on your screen. it was a worldwide display of sympathy and solidarity with the protesters of occupy wall street. there was tokyo and japan, london in to uk, rome, sidney, hong kong, indonesia to name a few. most were peaceful. though some arrests were reported. rome, however, stands out as the exception today. thousands of peaceful demonstrators suddenly scattered as anarchists began lobbying cocktails. now, numerous fires broke out. you can see riot police there on your screen responding. and a fire broke out in a government building, as well. protesters broke out shop windows, riot police moved in with water cannons and tear gas. and let s go to newsweek reporter barbie nango. did they take advantage of the protest, this occupy movement to create havoc? is that what happened today? reporter: that s absolut
now we ve read it and looked at it. repealing obamacare would be one of the first things i would within my power either with executive order, obviously working with the legislature to get rid of the rest of it. the second thing we need to do is remove, if you will, pull back all of those regulations they put forward epa or wherever those regulations are coming and killing jobs. those regulations are probably the biggest job killer out there. then work with the congress to restructure taxes on the personal and corporate level that s how you get america working. during the period of time that i ve been governor of texas, we ve created over a million net new jobs. since june of 2009, 40% of all the jobs created in america were created in texas. we have a blueprint for getting america working. we ve done it for the last decade. we ve led the nation in the creation of jobs. people understand if you will empower the private sector, if you will empower those small
now we ve read it and looked at it. repealing obamacare would be one of the first things i would within my power either with executive order, obviously working with the legislature to get rid of the rest of it. the second thing we need to do is remove, if you will, pull back all of those regulations they put forward epa or wherever those regulations are coming and killing jobs. those regulations are probably the biggest job killer out there. then work with the congress to restructure taxes on the personal and corporate level that s how you get america working. during the period of time that i ve been governor of texas, we ve created over a million net new jobs. since june of 2009, 40% of all the jobs created in america were created in texas. we have a blueprint for getting america working. we ve done it for the last decade. we ve led the nation in the creation of jobs. people understand if you will empower the private sector, if
we re in. the question is, really, who can? governor perry, we re going to begin with you. you re the newcomer here on stage, you probably saw this coming a mile away. you have touted your state s low taxes, the lack of regulation, tough tort reform, as the recipe for job growth in the lone star state, but texas ranks last among those who have completed high school, there are only eight other states with more living in poverty, no other state has more working at or below the minimum wage, so is that the kind of answer all americans are looking for? actually, what americans are looking for is someone who can get this country working again, and we put the model in place in the state of texas. when you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created one million jobs in the state of texas, at the same time america lost two and a half million, so i will suggest to you that americans are forecasted on the right issue, and that is who on this stage can get america working, becaus