Lower taxes coupled with lower costs of government, greater contributions by business who grow and can reinvest, citizens with more disposable income to spend at said businesses. On top of less regulations and red tape.
If you want to become the America of old, it starts with logical trade agreements that don't arm and reward foreign government abuses allow citizens to be free and stay out of citizens business. You can be sure that from Edison to the Wright Brothers, they weren't begging for government to find the solution, they had the courage and drive to solve the problems themselves.
Men that should be admired and respected for not just their inventions but the examples they set to a generation that has relied far too much on government and activism and not enough on staking their claim on their own two feet.