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One of my many crackpot theories is that it has been this way it is long that it is kind of like the pathetic economic numbers which have been muddling and as long as they are not tumbling, men -- americans are grateful. we are getting used to it, we don't like it but we are used to it and it is numbing >>guest: it is numbing. if you look at deficit from $10 trillion to $112 million, and unemployment in michigan is $9.4 percent. today we are 36th in per income per capita. gas prices were $1.84. we can get this again. we have the resources to be energy independent if only president obama would ...

The welfare roles. people in this country work very hard for their money and there's a foolish notion out there that taking $1 out of somebody's pocket and putting it into someone else's pocket somehow creates 1.84 return. we have to stop selling this as an economic stimulus to people. it's not an economic stimulus when we have growing welfare rolls for food stamps. >> alisyn: representative, we should mention this woman. 28 years old. was convicted. she was just sentence today 1.5 years in federal prison and she has to repay the $24,000 she received, but help us understand. how do you convert...

Gas prices have doubled under obama 1.84 september 15th, 2012, 3.87. what happens when the middle east continues to be on fire. >> 3.87 is putting a good spin on it in lots of our neck of the woods in the northeast, it is more 4.25 when you go to the pump. and so something else troubling and dubious has happened to the united states this week. we have slipped in our global competitiveness. we used to be number one back in 2008 and 2009. and according to the world economic forum we are now number 7 globally. >> you have got to wonder though is it easier to open a business in, i'm looking at the...

Millions of stockholders. to save a few 10,000 jobs but also sent a few 10,000 jobs overseas and it stuck it to the delphi folks by taking their pensions away. there were lots of ways to save gm. not the way president obama did. bill: this backs up your argument, governor. unemployment rates is up 7.8% in january of 2009. 8.3% today. reading left to right. median income is down, off almost $5,000 in 3 1/2 years. gallon of gasoline is up. almost doubled. 1.84 to 3.82. national debt up about $6 trillion to $16 trillion. those are the points that folks like you have been hammering home for months...

The economy as a whole. are we better off now than four years ago? absolutely not. look at, $3.82 gasoline. that is the national average, compared to $1.84 when the president took office. look at $16 trillion worth of debt versus $10.6 trillion when the president took office. look at 8.3% unemployment, versus below 8% when the president took office. look at overall level of employment, the lowest in 30 years for number of people, proportion of people actually going to work every day. i find it very difficult to say that the country as a whole economically is better off than four years ago. i w...