Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

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

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.