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Federal regulations in 2011 added more than $231 billion in regulatory costs to private businesses and state and local governments, and 133 million hours of paperwork….”the Obama Administration used regulations as the path of least resistance in advancing its agenda”

At some point companies and individuals decide their pain threshold has been exceeded and do something about it. They flee from the oppression and costs of unreasonable government to locations where they are treated better.

Obama talks jobs and his passion for the “middle class” out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he crushes the energy industry and drives up energy costs which drives up the cost of everything. The poor and the middle class are hit hardest in a stagnant economy by higher electric bills. But remember Obama promised that under his plan “electricity rates would necessarily have to skyrocket.”

“I don’t want to do any deals with the devil.” says TJ Rodgers CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. “If they want me to hire why don’t they create a stable favorable economic environment for business -we have the highest business taxes, number two in the world, and let us go do our job.” Investment which leads to jobs needs a stable business friendly environment not radical leftist policies being implemented on a grand scale.

“I don’t want to do any deals with the devil.” says TJ Rodgers CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. “If they want me to hire why don’t they create a stable favorable economic environment for business -we have the highest business taxes, number two in the world, and let us go do our job.” Investment which leads to jobs needs a stable business friendly environment not radical leftist policies being implemented on a grand scale.

Where have we heard that before? The message is the same everywhere. Central planning and control does not work. Socialism is dead. You eventually run out of other peoples’ money to buy votes.

America faces real monsters: government regulations that stifle energy production, increase energy prices, kill jobs, squeeze family and business incomes, and threaten living standards and productivity.

Cramer did the Republicans a favor by feeding them a softball question from a viewer. Their failure to handle it effectively was a lot more significant and newsworthy than Rick Perry’s much-publicized gaffe.

Rubio points out that there is no need for additional internet regulations and proposed controls will stifle innovation and hurt job growth.

For years the United States has been a world leader in economic freedom. But runaway government spending and burdensome regulations have caused a decline in economic freedom in the United States. If our economic freedom continues to fall, how will it affect our quality of life?