the government is not the thing that creates the jobs. And what we've seen is, for 18 months, a policy that says the government is going to take over everything. They fired the President of General Motors. They're going to take over insurance companies. They're going to take over banks. They've decided not only are they going to take over the insurance of flood insurance, they're going to take over the loans for students. They're going to take over whatever it is, one-sixth of the economy with their socialized medicine. If they could have, they wanted to take over the energy sector with their cap-and-tax bill, which would do nothing for global warming except for more taxes and more big bureaucratic government. And the solution to every problem is more taxes and more government, and they don't learn from the people, from their own party. You know, JFK understood that you've got to back off on taxes.
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The speaker criticizes government overreach and its impact on job creation and the economy.
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