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STRONG ECONOMY. WE MUST PAY AS WE GO. FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IN WASHINGTON LEADS TO ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND SECURITY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.' :rious FACTOIDS!! you know that since January of 2001, two million jobs haws been lost in the privale sector? That 1.3 million more Amerg|!cans are below the poverty line? That an 5 additional 1.4 million Americans are h without health insurance? That unemployment is up 2 percent and long-term) unemployment has almost doubled? That | overall economic growth is at 1 percent, f the lowest few any administration in 30 years? That Americans have lest $4.5 trillion in stock holdings? That there has been a 30 percent drop in the value of 5.IRAs and 401(k) plans? That the projected budget surplus of $5.6 trillion is now a r projected deficit of at least $400 billion? That the Social Security Trust Fund has been raided to the tune of $2 trillion to cover non-Social Security spending? ' iMy
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