Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.