President Obama ran for the presidency on a platform of “change”. He certainly did not break that promise since his election. Let’s take a look at the change that we got since Obama took office in January 2009:
Federal spending – from $2.5 trillion to $3.3 trillion
Federal deficit – from $642 billion to $1.7 trillion
Federal debt – from $10 trillion to $14.8 trillion
Foreclosures – topped 1 million in 2010 for the first time in history
Gas prices – over 110 percent increase
Healthcare insurance premiums – 9 percent increase for the year 2011 compared to 2010
Poverty – 15.1 percent of Americans (the highest poverty rate in 28 years)
Unemployment – above 9 percent for 26 of the last 28 months
Regulations –published over 80,000 pages in the Federal Register (the highest number since 2000)
Meanwhile, the number of American who think the country is headed in the right direction: less than 20 percent.
We asked for change and we got it. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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