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Whether education, taxes and health care. whether it's green energy, more government, more government. you know what is interesting? governor romney gave his answer on obama care. and he went through one, two, three, four five specific points why it doesn't work. health care $2500 you're going to have a panel of unelected people by the way is in the health care law. and some 4,000 times that day will be the final arbitors. i thought that was really, the president couldn't answer the $716 billion or rising cost of families and business. >> i thought that is probably the worst point in the debat...

Anybody a plausible alternative. >> you keep talking about romney. i'd like to talk about the obama record and i want to put some statistics up on the screen. unemployment was 7.8% when the president took office. it's now 8.3%. median household income was almost $55,000. it's now less than 51,000. gas was 1.85 a gallon when he took office. now it's 3.78. almost double. the national debt was $10.6 trillion and it may go past $16 trillion this week. so just looking at the president's record and those statistics, david, is the average american better off than four years ago? >> chris, as i said t...

Here is mr. axelrod. >> we also need to take steps to grow the economy in the long run. the question is, do we do that by cutting tacks for the wealthy or do we pay down our deficit and invest in things like education and training, research and development and innovation, clean energy technology, infrastructure, the things we know we need to grow the economy. the president has a balanced plan for the long-term, as well as a plan for the short-term. governor remain knee has neither. -- romney has neither. >> steve: we'll see if people buy that. as to the result of the rnc, mr. romney wound up w...

Trouble answering the question. are you better off than four years ago. no. the economy is worse. 43 months of 8.3 percent unemployment and the debt is going to hit 16 trillion while they are here this week. they will have a tough time answering that question: are you better off? the answer is no. what they will do blame everyone. >> steve: we had governor o' mallory blaming bush. is that what we are going to heard that. >> i get so tired of they have no plan and things are not as good. we come out of a crash. we reversed the rising bubble and three straight years of rising jobs. >> steve: we ...

Bruising, bleeding, or paleness. [ phil ] get back to the things that matter most. ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. [ doctor ] enbrel, the number one biolog medicine prescribed by rheumatologists. >> gretchen: welcome back. two senior advisors in the president's campaign yesterday had trouble giving a direct answer to this question: are you better off than you were four years ago?