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On the recordJune 22, 2023
I have a lot of boards. I am going to try to get through them as fast as possible. I wish there was some way you could set off an alarm if I start speaking too fast because I always feel guilty when I do that. Once again, I have had far too much caffeine. I actually want to walk through a couple of things. I meant today to be a day where I was going to come with things that were happy and hopeful and look at these great disruptions and that we can crash the price of healthcare. I am going to have some of that, but once again, I think I need to actually reset some of the math, so we are going to walk through a few of these just because I am sort of enraged when I hear the White House put out materials and my brothers and sisters on the left put out materials that talk about this wonderful economy, the Biden economy, the Biden economics. Let's actually deal with some real live math. Amortized change in real disposable personal income per capita, under President Trump, it was amazing. It went up 5.1 percent. Under President Obama, it went up 1.2 percent. Under President Biden so far-- and this is annualized per capita--your income, if you are an average American, is down 4\1/2\ percent. You are poorer today. You are poorer today than the day President Biden took office. That is the left's idea of a wonderful economy? Come on, these are people.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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