"Unemployment is at Reagan-era levels, General Motors is the most successful car company in the world, the stock market is at record levels, interest rates are down, housing starts are up, health insurance companies are mailing us checks, and we are getting out of wars not into them."
Do you know how you can tell that the U.S. economy is roaring back to life?
Do you know how you can tell that Al Qaeda is almost gone and that Medicare and Social Security are both in pretty fine shape?
Simple: the Republicans don't want to talk about any of that.
Instead, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney want to talk about an attack on a consulate in a city no one can find on a map or even spell.
Economic problems? Not so much.
The simple truth is that unemployment is at Reagan-era levels, General Motors is the most successful car company in the world, the stock market is at record levels, interest rates are down, housing starts are up, health insurance companies are mailing us checks, and we are getting out of wars not into them.
And so an attack on a consulate in a second-tier city in a God-forsaken country, where we have never had any relations at all, is all that Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan want to talk about.
They cannot talk about the 47% of Americans that they told their
They cannot talk about their push to turn Medicare into a voucher program that will give you less and cost you more.
They cannot talk about privatizing Social Security or what they would have done to our seniors during the last stock market crash.
They cannot talk about how Mitt Romney has STILL now shown us his tax records, and neither has Paul Ryan.
They cannot talk about Mitt Romney's track record of making jobs in Massachusetts or the state of the budget when he left -- none and bankrupt are the stories there.
They cannot talk about sending American jobs to China when Romney was at Bain.
They cannot talk about taxes since Romney banks in the Caymans and avoids taxes with accounts in Switzerland.
They cannot talk about religion, since Romney Jesus lives on planet Kolob.
They cannot talk about family history since Romney's is riddled with polygamy.
They cannot talk about war, since Romney was a war-monger draft-dodger during the Vietnam era.
They cannot talk about Romney's disastrous trips overseas where he insulted, the British, the Poles, the Arabs, and the Jews.
They cannot talk about guns since Romney is a gun-grabber.
They cannot talk about dogs strapped to roofs or or dancing horses given $73,000 tax breaks.
They cannot talk about cars since Mitt Romney said he wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, even as he was building elevators in his house for his foreign car collection.
They cannot talk about the stimulus bill, since Paul Ryan sent letters to Joe Biden begging for money to be sent to his district in order to create jobs, nor can they talk about the bank bail out since that actually returned more money to the U.S. Government than was spent.
They cannot even talk about Ronald Reagan. After all, Reagan's economic track record during his first four years in officer was no better than Obama's on almost any level.
Under Barack Obama, unemployment in the U.S. topped out at 10.1, and it has been declining pretty much steadily since.
But shhhh... We can't talk about that!
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