We've heard from a lot of small businesses eager to open up again but worried about the paperwork and delays. If we smother people in paperwork, some of the businesses the SBA is trying to help may not be there.
Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.
If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.
We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.
People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!
The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.