brian wesbury, how do we get the economy growing again?hat has been the question of the hour for four years? >> i've been answering it for four years. cut the size of government. the reason the economy boomed in the late 1990s was because we had great new technologies, the pc and the internet but government was only 18 1/2% of gdp when bill clinton was president. today it's 22 1/2% of gdp the federal government. it's never been bigger. if you take defense out of the budget, we have never had a bigger government than we have today. and the bigger the government is, the smaller the private sector is. the smaller the private sector is, the fewer jobs we create. melissa: stunt the growth of private sector or that was function of government whatever size it was and rest of the economy was growing so big because of tech boom? did big government stunt the rest? >> we cut the size of government under reagan and under clinton. not actually cut dollar spending but we slowed its growth. we had welfare reform. we had all kind of great stability in gov

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