Statements about Economy
"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."
"More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.
"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
"The Fed created $15 trillion in the bailout process" and $5 trillion went overseas.
"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Says Mitt Romney has changed his position on supporting the TARP program.
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