We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.
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Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
We didn't grow up rich people.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.