The debate over 'free markets', 'job creation at Bain Capital' is akin to debating the role played by Bozo the Clown in drafting the Constitution.
Other than GOOPERs and their fellow travelers in the media, everyone knows that the US Government is largely responsible for our modern economy. The transcontinental railroad, the telegraph, Panama Canal, land grant universities, airplanes, airlines, transistors, computers all result from the heavy hand of the federal government. We are indeed fortunate that the Saint Ronald of Reagan and the Nawab of the GOP, Grover Norquist were not around in the 19th century.
And it is not just the US government. This continent was discovered when the Spanish Government funded Columbus' voyages. The Bain Capitals of the 15th century would only provide a portion of the funds needed. Queen Isabella gave the rest.
Alexander Graham Bell started what became Bell Labs with a grant from the French government.
Transistors, delta wing technology, jet engines were all developed in Germany with the assistance of both the pre-war and Nazi governments.
Silicon Valley exists because of the federal government. MIT and the UCal systems were started with land grant funds from the federal government. The research that led to transistors came form funds provided by the War Department to counter and then improve radar.
The missile and space program provided both the seed funding and customers for the nascent computer (both hardware and software) industries.
Alas, the Saint Ronald of Reagan, voters in the US South, the Nawab and the Begum Grover Norquist have done their best to impair the greatest generator of jobs the world has ever seen.