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According to his speech: "During the Bush years, the average American household income went down by 5%? During that same time, job growth was the worst since WWII?"

When I think back to "between 2001 and 2008", I think of huge flat panel tv's, fancy cell phones and video games and computers, bigger and fancier houses, shiny new SUV's, granite countertops and "professional " appliances, fabulous vacations, even StartBucks Coffee. It was by far the most prosperous time this country has ever seen! It seemed like, overnight, a lot of ordinary people started making enormous salaries. Investment opportunities were rampant, the market was hitting a new high every week. (Don't post back to me and say, not you. You had to have noticed how good things were for a large part of the population.)