Thank Democrats When You Vote
1. The U.S. now has had 63 straight months of economic expansion, including 54 straight months of private sector job growth (the best recovery in almost any measurable way since FDR).
2. The 54 straight months of private sector job creation is the longest period of job creation since the Labor Dept. began keeping statistics.
3. Unemployment has dropped from 10.1% in October, 2009 to 5.9%, and is projected to reach 5.4% by the summer of 2015.
4. The stock market has seen steady growth since early 2009, with the Dow Jones average reaching a record 17,098 this past August, 2014. 401k retirement plans, mostly affecting middle-class Americans have directly benefitted.
5. The Federal deficit continues to shrink, and has been reduced by two-thirds since 2009. In 2009, just after President Obama was sworn in, the deficit was $1.4 trillion. The 2014 deficit is projected to be around $500 billion, the smallest since 2007.
6. Federal spending since the beginning of 2009 has increased only 1.4% annually, the lowest rate since Eisenhower. (Under Reagan it was 8.7%; under G.W. Bush it as 8.1%).
7. For 95% of American taxpayers, income taxes are now lower than just about anytime in the past 50 years. (The only people whose income taxes have gone up are those making $400,000 per year or more--less than 2% of the population).
8. Our dependence on foreign oil has shrunk since 2009, due to record domestic oil production and vastly improved fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.
9. Since 2010, at least 7 to 10 million more Americans now have real, effective, affordable health insurance, which will inevitably lead to better health, more work productivity, less time loss, and longer lives.
10. Health care reforms (under the ACA) have added years to the life of Medicare, which was on course to exhaust its funds by 2018. It is now fully solvent to a projected 2030.
11. Health care reforms (under the Affordable Care Act) have lead to the slowest rate of increase in health care costs since 1960.
12. There are now fewer soldiers, sailors and airmen in war zones than at any time in the last 10 years.
13. There have been zero successful attacks by al Qaeda on U.S. soil in the last six years. |
