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MindMover

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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 02:11 PM Sep 2012

Charts that prove we are better off ...

The Romney campaign this week is basing its message off of former President Reagan’s “are you better off?” question from his 1980 campaign, even though Romney himself admitted in an interview earlier this year that “of course [the economy is] getting better” under President Obama. And the numbers don’t lie.

While the economy is only recovering slowly, the trend lines when it comes to jobs, wealth, and the success of American business are all moving in the right direction, as these charts by the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Christian Weller show:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/04/793041/charts-yes-were-better-off-than-we-were-four-years-ago/

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Charts that prove we are better off ... (Original Post) MindMover Sep 2012 OP
HecK YES! imanamerican63 Sep 2012 #1
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