In this fact-driven briefing, Clifford Ribner exposes the hidden cost of America’s vast administrative state — a system of federal agencies that was never authorized by the Constitution, yet governs almost every part of ordinary economic life.

Clifford shows how these agencies were built on unconstitutional assumptions, how they reshape entire industries, and how their decisions silently raise prices, reduce innovation, and make Americans poorer than they should be.

The story is not theoretical. Clifford walks through hard numbers from the past two centuries — growth rates, per-capita income, and historical comparisons — to show precisely when prosperity accelerated, when it slowed, and what changed in government at those moments.

Agencies claim to protect health, safety, and fairness. Clifford shows what they really do: control, delay, ration, and prohibit — always at your expense.

What you will see in this video

– How agencies replaced market freedom with permission systems that treat every entrepreneur like a suspect
– Why the FDA, created without constitutional authority, delays lifesaving drugs and drives prices sky-high
– How regulatory mandates shaped the modern car — from mileage rules to design restrictions
– Why bumpers today shatter at 1 mph while 1960s cars absorbed real impact
– How the administrative model, imported from Europe, slows growth and smothers innovation
– What the real data shows: explosive American prosperity before 1913 and steady decline as agencies multiplied
– Why patents, approval delays, and bureaucratic tests create artificially high drug prices
– The difference between American tort law (accountability) and European-style bureaucracy (permission)
– How class actions and strict liability transformed risk and raised costs across the economy
– The historical moment when Europe briefly outgrew the United States — and why only massive U.S. financial aid made that possible

Clifford brings receipts:
decade-by-decade growth rates, per-capita income charts, and comparisons with Europe and the UK.
He invites you to see the evidence yourself.

Why this matters to every viewer

This isn’t an academic dispute.
It determines:
• How much you pay for a car, a drug, a mortgage, or an airline ticket
• Whether your business can enter a market without years of paperwork
• How long it takes to release a product — or whether you’re allowed to release it at all
• Whether prosperity grows at 4% (as it did when Americans were free) or stalls below 2% (as it has under modern bureaucracy)

Clifford’s message is simple:
When government takes over decisions that should belong to buyers and sellers, everyone becomes poorer.

He lays out the numbers plainly and asks you to judge:
Has the administrative state helped you — or has it made life more expensive, more complicated, and less free?

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