Republicans certainly have their work cut out for them! The world was waiting for the US recovery to pull the rest of the world up with it a few years back. Instead we elected some astounding nitwits that expanded the welfare state and had industry lobbyists write Obamacare. Dry Ships has been the number one indicator of the world economy for more decades than any of us have been around, it's at decade lows... if we had data going back further it might be even more scary...
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