How's this for an answer: The government should not interfere with business nor should it help business.
In a perfect world, Clinton/Rubin wouldn't have pushed for a ruinous strong dollar policy, and Greenspan would have recognized that the end of Y2K spending would have put the brakes on our economy without his "help." GWB would have recognized that our economy was suffering from a drop in business spending (which mostly goes for technology), not consumer spending.