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Ron Kind: “I mean, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month the day President Obama was sworn in; $17 trillion of wealth was already…”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2012
I mean, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month the day President Obama was sworn in; $17 trillion of wealth was already destroyed in the stock market; and you inherited a $1.5 trillion annual budget deficit.
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Ron Kind
Wisconsin

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Kind describes the economic situation inherited by the Obama administration.

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