As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

I think last time we had it we had maybe 15 schools at the most. It was not at all the full-blown event that hopefully will take place (today).

I think if everybody got everything mandated that they needed to have mandated in schools, we wouldn't have time to teach.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Generally, Wal-Mart can give real-time data faster than the government, because they can just pull this off their cash registers.