claim: "the only growth sector that we’ve had in the last two years in america is government growth."
author: kay bailey hutchison
evidence_1: jul 12, 2017 ... since i've been governor of rhode island, we've reduced the structural ... over  the last two and half years, we went from having the highest unemployment rate  in america to one that's ... brookings ranks rhode island as new england's best  state for advanced industries job growth, and the u.s. chamber of ...
evidence_2: aug 7, 2018 ... for most u.s. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades ... in nearly  two decades (3.9% as of july) and the nation's private-sector employers have ...  finally abated in early 2010, and 1.5 million just since the beginning of the year. ...  that's in line with average wage growth over the past five years: ...
evidence_3: apr 12, 2013 ... it is time to ask what impact government has had on the economy over the short-  ... of just 1.4% real gdp growth this year prove true, america will have ... that  there was heady growth in the two decades following wwii makes sense. ... what  we have seen over the last four years is unlike anything during the ...
evidence_4: most american cities find themselves caught in the growth ponzi scheme. ...  across cultures, over thousands of years, people have traditionally built places  scaled to the individual. it is only in the last two generations that we have scaled  places to the automobile ... we've simply built in a way that is not financially  productive.
evidence_5: oct 16, 2018 ... out-of-control government spending not only hurts the u.s. economy, ... debt and  federal deficit is very real, even for average americans, ... that's a 17 percent  increase over the previous year – the highest deficit in six years. ... for starters,  they drive up interest rates, which leads to slower economic growth.