The Congressional Budget Office recently reported that if you add the number of unemployed and compare it to the actual number of jobs available when President Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 9.75%. It projects growth to be an anemic 2.2% this year (China is growing at 9%). The last time Obama produced a budget (Democrat-led Senate hasn't in 1,000 days), he projected growth of 5% by now and into infinity. CBO also predicts an even worse 1% growth in 2013 (one of the fundamental reasons? Obamacare closing in on implementation.).

The nonpartisan government agency also forecasts a 30% jump in tax revenue (read: tax increases) between 2012 and 2014, and another $1+ trillion addition to our deficit this year and $4.7 trillion more in the next four years.

So after the November elections we can look forward to a 1% GDP increase (read: another recession). (The New York Times called 3.5% GDP a recession under Bush.)

Add in more citizens slipped into poverty during Obama's reign since the Great Depression eight decades ago; most people added to food stamp rolls in history; housing sales in 2011 lowest in history; first president in history to have country's credit rating downgraded; added more to country's deficit in three years than all previous presidents did in 233 years, combined.

So keep pulling that Democrat lever, liberals, to keep Obama's "hope 'n change" spewing like sewage over the land.

Al Dorn

O'Fallon, Ill.