Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The Record: What President Obama is running on

This is the record on which President Obama seeks reelection:

The Economic Record
Unemployment at 7.9 percent (over 8 percent for the prior 43 months); 23 million unemployed and underemployed Americans
47 million on food stamps, a record number of people dependent on government
Average household annual income down more than $3,000 since 2009
46 million Americans, or one in six, living in poverty — the highest rate in a generation and 6 million more than four years ago
A record 8.8 million Americans collecting disability payments, up by over 1.3 million since 2009
Gas prices: $1.76 a gallon on January 20, 2009; $3.53 a gallon on October 29, 2012
The stimulus that didn’t stimulate, $862 billion later: “Some of those shovel-ready projects were not as shovel-ready as we had hoped”
$16 trillion debt, increasing more than $4 billion per day
U.S. bond rating downgraded from AAA for the first time
Renunciation of the American entrepreneurial spirit: “You didn’t build that”
Obamacare, featuring:
Passage through parliamentary gimmicks without consultation with, or any votes from, Republicans, and with many members of Congress not even reading the 906-page bill

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332644/record-scott-coffina

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