Do Dems Think We’re Better Off Now Than We Were Four Years Ago?
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), George Badey (PA-07), Ron Barber (AZ-02), John Barrow (GA-12), Ami Bera (CA-07), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), David Crooks (IN-08), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Tammy Duckworth (IL-08), Bill Enyart (IL-12), Elizabeth Esty (CT-05), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Pete Gallego (TX-23), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Jose Hernandez (CA-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Gene Jeffress (AR-04), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Larry Maggi (PA-18), Jim Matheson (UT-04), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Gary McDowell (MI-01), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Rick Nolan (MN-08), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Hayden Rogers (NC-11), Raul Ruiz (CA-36), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Gene Stilp (PA-11), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03),Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
Does Garamendi Think We’re Better Off Now Than We Were Four Years Ago?
The Democrat Party Has Rallied Around Obama’s Failed, Big-Government Policies
WASHINGTON — With a nearly $1 trillion stimulus, an exploding deficit that will reach $16 trillion today and an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, up from 7.8 percent in 2008, Democrats are delusional to think that Americans are better off now than when Obama took office. After steamrolling over an already weak economy, can John Garamendi honestly say that California families and small business owners are better off?
“The question of this election is whether we are better off after four years of Obama and John Garamendi’s taxing, spending and borrowing agenda that is crippling our economy,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Is unacceptably high unemployment and a government spending addiction John Garamendi’s idea of ‘better off’?”
Right as the Democrat National Convention kicks off, the national debt will pass $16 trillion:
“Just as Democrats are gaveling in their convention Tuesday, the federal government likely will announce another dubious milestone — $16 trillion in total federal debt.” (“US Debt to Hit $16 Trillion on Tuesday as DNC Begins,” Newsmax, 9/3/2012)
When Obama became president, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent and now, after almost four years, his party’s Washington agenda has pushed it to 8.3 percent:
“Though the unemployment rate, at 8.3 percent, is currently higher than it was when President Obama took office (7.8 percent), it wasn’t that Plouffe (and others) didn’t have a case to make yesterday.” (Jake Tapper, “Obama Team Readjusts On ‘Are You Better Off?,’” ABC News, 9/3/2012)
In a new poll, the majority of voters don’t believe they are better off now than they were four years ago:
“A majority of voters believe the country is worse off today than it was four years ago and that President Obama does not deserve reelection, according to a new poll for The Hill.” (Sheldon Alberts, “Hill Poll: Voters say second term undeserved, country is worse off,” The Hill, 9/4/2012)
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