I was a closet stutterer.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.