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The Truth-O-Meter Says: "Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000." Tim Pawlenty on Monday, December 13th, 2010 in an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal".

Excerpt: In the Dec. 13, 2010, edition of the Wall Street Journal, outgoing Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty -- a potential contender in the 2012 Republican presidential primary -- wrote a column that blasted public-employee unions. Pawlenty wrote that government employees, especially those who are unionized, have become unfairly advantaged compared to private-sector workers, through a "silent coup, an inside job engineered by self-interested politicians and fueled by campaign contributions."