Ohio Gov. John Kasich Talks Ohio Jobs w/ Fox's Bill Hemmer

John cases he says his state now has bragging rights and he's back here spell it out for us how are your governor and good morning to you

good good well we're not bragging out here bill we're pleased to welcome us to quarter of a million jobs let

me administration came in the errors ago year of labor statistics says you're number two in the country as of January sorry your

number one in the Midwest over the past year since January two thousand eleven it ranks you number five in the country since January of two thousand eleven I think it's when you took office by the and

number seven in the nation in the past year January two thousand thirteen January two thousand port give

it your best shot go ahead and break what's going on in your state and what's Ohio doing right well bill you

know this is interesting because you know we seen this now I mean you know just not perform very well and

we all %HESITATION I'd hear believe we have a simple formula balance your budget which we have a coming from a billion in the hole we now are running a surplus of

a billion and a half that's like nine and a half billion dollar turnaround in three years you know from the the

negative to the positive and that we're also cutting taxes all the time because if you cut taxes particularly for small business it

helps to create excitement we've also privatized our economic development operation so they act like you

know business people and not like bureaucrats and we have %HESITATION simplified our regulation so

we have stability in increasingly companies look to see where things are stable if you look over in Illinois for example they don't know what they're going to do with

their problems over there and and and companies look at Washington and they say you know this folks can't do anything right so

when they see somebody that's doing it right you know it creates momentum that we have a long long way to go bill because we have a lot three

hundred and fifty thousand private sector jobs before we came here now that since we've been in we've

good formula for others linear colleagues have Rick Perry in Texas that they make a big deal out of how he goes to California has come to my state open up your business there are

you drawing more business into a higher or is your skin tax structure still preventative on that now

well we're we're getting our we're getting our income tax that we have a proposal to get it down under five percent while at the same time helping people at

the bottom of the income scale but we are just too noteworthy things a whirlpool you know about whirlpool they just created four hundred more jobs in Ohio rather than going to Mexico or China and

we are which is a Chinese firm is going to do a major investment in Dayton by eight hundred jobs and a significant investment so we're

%HESITATION we've got a long way to go are focusing a great deal on workforce training bill %HESITATION and that's so that people are prepared when they get educated for jobs that exist not in a vacuum very

important broaden the discussion okay national unemployment rate of six point seven percent if you look at the graph are going back to two thousand nine what

can this white house do what do you think this president is willing to do when his remaining three and a half you

to help that number go back well if if I were advising him I would tell him to get the job creators in