President Obama came into office just over five years ago promising to reduce the power of corporate lobbyists and to increase government’s role in the economy.

In his first month, he showed that the two promises were incompatible. His $787 billion-dollar stimulus provided the lesson: Every time government gets bigger, some special interest is getting richer.

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