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We now have 8.3 percent unemployment, 100 million Americans receiving some means-tested federal welfare, a $16 trillion national debt ($5 trillion under Obama), entrepreneurship rates (new business startups) the lowest in 30 years, gross domestic product growing at a sluggish 1.5 percent (and decreasing), gas prices doubling under Obama … the list goes on.
Carol Ann Lee
Salt Lake City