Burden the country further with restrictions on free trade, over-regulation, and meddling in corporate affairs and you have a volatile economy hell-bent on self-destruction. The government's pursuit of Microsoft, AT&T, the Bell Companies, and others has resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. This results in an indirect loss of even more jobs as the incomes lost by the first set of unemployed workers causes a drop in housing starts, product consumption, travel, and charity. The second set of unemployed people, together with the first set, now have even less money to spend on domestic and imported goods, housing, medical care, and other consumables. Result? Even more lost jobs, closed businesses, and bankruptcies. The cycle only worsens. The government's response to these cycles is to extend unemployment benefits, increase social services spending, and provide low-income housing. Result? An artificial "recovery". As people extend their unemployment beyond the benefits period, they fall off the books. They simply don't "count". Unemployment appears to drop. It is all smoke and mirrors.

The time has come for the government to end this cycle. It is time for the government to get out of the business of corporate and small business management, stop the corporate income taxes, stop personal income taxes, open free trade with other nations, and remove the obstacles that prevent United States' companies from competing on equal footing with their global competitors.