Advertisements An excellent point made in this blog article. Jared Bernstein has a little fun with Perry's declaration that as president he'd make Washington “as inconsequential in your lives as I can.” Over the last few years, government jobs have been awfully consequential in Texas: 47% of all government jobs added in the US between… Read More Did you know one major factor in Rick Perry’s ‘Texas Miracle’ was government jobs? (via Under the Mountain Bunker)