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Perry’s Texas Jobs Boom: The Result of Big Government

• Slate.com c/o Ben Johnson
 Governor and now-presidential candidate Rick Perry has said some pretty disparaging things about the federal government’s fiscal policies, from suggesting Texas might secede to calling the Fed treasonous.
But as the Washington Post reports, Perry might actually owe the government a big “thank you” card. The boom of jobs in his state over the past decade—1 million created—has come not from the private sector and conservative, small government policies, but from federal stimulus and government growth.
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