Bernie Sanders is taking exception to Obama’s claim that the economy is good and rolling along nicely. His exact words were:
“This is progress. Step by step, America is moving forward. Middle class economics works.”
Sanders says that is a lie. Sanders goes on to make the same point conservatives have made for years:
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“When you talk about the economy we also have to have an honest assessment of unemployment in America.”
“Once a month the government publishes a set of figures, and the last figures they published said that official unemployment was 5.4 percent.” (5.3%)
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