On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
And 5.3 trillion, now, I think there's a statistic out there that shows that that's more money than the amounts of money spent by or the deficits between George Washington and Bill Clinton combined--or maybe it's George H.W. Bush. The fact is, we've never seen a period in our Nation's history where unemployment has been matched by a failure to recognize the needs of the American people, where debts are allowed to skyrocket, where you can say on TV one thing, pledge to the American people that you will cut the deficit in half, and then the next thing you know it's up by $5 trillion. Maybe the question isn't are you better off today than you were 4 years ago, but maybe the question ought to be are you better off today than you were $5.3 trillion ago?
