Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.