"Remember the election of 2006? Thought you might like to read the following. A little over a year ago:
(1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2.5 year high;
(2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
(3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Demogractic congress in 2006 we have seen:
(1) Consumer confidence plummet;
(2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
(3) Unemployment is up 5% (a 10% increase);
(4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value (stock and mutual funds) evaporate;
(5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion;
(6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
Americans voted for change in 2006, and we got it!" - unknown reader
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I'm willing to admit that not all of this is due to the Dem's, but the direction is, and it is only going to get worse. I'd add the one thing the Dem's in congress couldn't change - despite their "best" efforts - was implementing the surge, which has worked fantastically.
So if Obama and Hillary are both for "change", and Dem's idea of change is always higher taxes/more regulation/more welfare/slower economic growth, we've just seen a peak of what is to come under either of them!
