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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