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Mr. Speaker:

With the clock winding down on the President’s second term, this seems like a good time to stroll down memory lane, and look back on America then and now. Under this President, the number of Americans without health care has risen from 38 million to 46 million people.

Under this President, the price of gasoline has risen from less than $1.50 a gallon to over four dollars a gallon. Under this President, the unemployment rate has risen to over six percent; with millions more Americans out of work and running out of help. Under this President, prices that Americans pay for food, fuel, college, transportation and medical costs have all risen by at least 25 percent.  And let’s not forget that mortgage foreclosures are rising while housing prices are falling – like a rock.

This President has been willing to bail out Wall Street while ignoring Main Street.  Strolling down memory lane can be very educational.  Especially when you consider that the President is running for an unprecedented third term.  They talk about change, but only the names will change. The Republican Wreck-o-Nomic policies that created this economic disaster will remain exactly the same.

That’s not nostalgia; that’s a promise from this failed Administration. 

Thank you.