On the recordFebruary 15, 2006
What a wonderful vision you have created and the great story that you have told about the recovery after 9/11 and the incredible economy that we have going in America right now. Often at home, people do not understand that. They aren't getting told that, certainly not on the nightly news and not in the newspaper. Thank you so very, very much for joining us. I also want to just highlight what Representative Drake said about the words that are used here in Washington. So often you hear about cutting this and cutting that. In fact, things are not being cut. We will talk a little bit more about that in just a minute. Oftentimes, things are just decreasing the rate of increase, which is a little different way to say it, but it has been said that Washington is the only place where a decrease in the amount of growth that was projected is considered a cut. We just have to suffer with that. That is why we are joining you tonight as the Official Truth Squad, to bring some real facts, some truth to the issue of the economy. I wanted to expand a little bit on what I hear at home when people talk about the kind of news that they see on television or the kind of things that they most often read in the paper. {time} 2015 They want to know why are they not hearing these good things about America. To highlight once again some of the statistics about our economy, 17 straight quarters of growth, 17 straight quarters of growth. The home ownership rate in our Nation now is at an all-time high.…
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