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To: FJB who wrote (632745)	10/21/2011 11:01:10 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1576627

The ‘”misery index” today is at its highest level in 28 years. The unemployment rate has been above 9 percent for 27 of the last 29 months. Long-term unemployment is at its highest level in more than 70 years. The national debt is $14.8 trillion — nearly $5 trillion more than four years ago. The federal deficit is $1.3 trillion — more than eight times higher than four years ago. Federal spending is $3.57 trillion — nearly $1 trillion more than four years ago. The United States’ credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. You spent $814 billion on a stimulus program *so unemployment wouldn’t rise above 8 percent and would drop to 6.5 percent by today. Since then, unemployment has never dropped below* 8 percent and is 9.1 percent today. A record 45 million Americans (nearly one in seven) use the food-stamp program — 20 million more than four years ago. A record 3.8 million foreclosures were filed last year. Seventy-seven percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.**