Rick Perry Lectures Warren Buffett About Bidness
Well, come to find out, Rick Perry is not all that fond of Warren Buffet’s idea that billionaires shouldn’t pay a lower tax rate that his secretary.
Rick, who made a D in economics at Texas A&M University, was a tad stressed over explaining why it is a bad idea, so he up and decided that attacking Warren Buffett was the tact to take.
“Buffett is a really intelligent individual,” Perry said, “but I can promise you, he doesn’t know what’s going on in places where the job creation is at a zero because of overtaxation and overregulation.”
Rick Perry knows bidness, Buddy. I mean, not personally. He’s never had a job except sucking off the government teat, but – boy howdy! – he knows bidness. He can see it from his $10,000 a month taxpayer financed rent house.
And Warren Buffett does not know diddle squat about real bidness.
During the decade that Perry has enjoyed a lifestyle made possible by Texas voters and taxpayers, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has pumped a considerable portion of his company’s resources into Fort Worth.
In 2000, Berkshire purchased one of Cowtown’s iconic companies, Justin Industries, maker of boots (Justin) and bricks (Acme).
In 2007, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased TTI, a Fort Worth-based electronic components distribution company that employs more than 1,500 people at more than 50 locations.
A Mansfield-based subsidiary of TTI, Mouser Electronics, employed 593 at the time of the deal. Today, it has 980 — or more. A Sept. 7 Star-Telegram story said Mouser had another 60 openings companywide, including 47 in Mansfield.
In early 2010, Buffett acquired Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway.
That would be the BNSF that announced in February it would spend $3.5 billion this year to upgrade railroad tracks and buy equipment as the company reinvests to keep pace with a growing volume of freight shipments.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Rick, step away from the microphone and nobody’s job gets hurt.
What is a male bimbo called? I mean, there’s gotta be a term for that.
Thanks to RW for the heads-up.