In the 2010 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed to double exports within five years by facilitating exports in high-growth sectors like renewable energy and biotechnology.

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Further facilitating government growth, it invented automatic debt-limit increases as part of the House budget and set up congressional voting rules that prevent consideration of the negative-growth impact of higher taxes and bigger government.

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And if there is an oddity about this potential debacle, it is that the Department of Health and local authorities did not look more closely at the shaky structure of the private care-home industry before facilitating its explosive and dangerous growth by channelling hundreds of millions of pounds in its direction.

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