Erica Greider: "Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from Texas."

Listening to Erica Greider, Author of Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America can learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

Obviously, big and hot explain themselves.

Right:

•  Creating almost half of the country's jobs by ourselves.
•  People are voting with our feet to move here.

Cheap:

• Some of the lowest cost of living in America.

Is the Texas Miracle Replicable?!?

• The policy aspects of the Texas Model are replicable
• Our geographical position is not.
• Energy industry jobs only account for 2-3% of the new jobs in Texas this past year.
• Culturally, skepticism about Government runs much deeper in Texas than other parts of America.

What is not going right in Texas?!?

• The Texas Model works very well; tweak it, perhaps, but don't mess with the broad outline.
• That being said, our educational system can stand some improvement.

Random Secesssion Factiod:

• Apparently, at the beginning of the Civil War, Sam Houston was making plans to have Texas secede from the Confederacy!!!
• Me: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME!!!