When President Obama took office, he inherited a $1.2 trillion deficit, two wars, a recession, mounting job losses, and a disaster like Katrina that pushed our economy to the brink. While the Republicans continue to push the same failed policies of the past, Democrats are fighting to help America recover from the Bush recession and move forward. This Congress, our President, and the Democrats, have fought for middle class tax cuts, boosted small businesses with job creating investments, fought to protect Social Security, worked to create new jobs at home, fought to end the outsourcing of jobs overseas, and have given patients, not health insurance companies, control over their health care. The choice is clear. Support the Party of No with no solution or the Democrats who will work with working families, the middle class, and will work to strengthen our economy. Republicans threaten to take us back to the failed policies of the past. We must continue to move America forward.
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Baca addresses the economic challenges inherited by President Obama and contrasts Democratic efforts with Republican policies.
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