This may be the start of a new series demonstrating how all many of these anti-federal government candidates would be helpless without the federal government.
The story doesn’t paint things too simply, and it makes an effort to get Perry’s side of the story. But the facts are the facts – Texas’ job growth can be attributed to the public sector (or, as some pundits would insist we call it when we’re talking a “public option,” the “government sector”), and they’re still turning out young adults who aren’t qualified to take some of the jobs the private sector is trying to create.