President Obama told people "to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings."
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
"Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased."
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
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