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struggle4progress

(118,293 posts) Sun Jul 17, 2016, 06:06 PM Jul 2016

Trump oversells Pence’s record

Eugene Kiely
11:52 a.m. EDT July 17, 2016

... Trump praised Pence for reducing the state’s unemployment rate, which has declined by 3.4 percentage points since January 2013. But that tracked the national average, which dropped 3.3 percentage points during that time.

Trump said it was “very unusual” that Indiana has added 147,000 private-sector jobs. Not really. Florida (12.7%) and Utah (12.4%), for example, grew jobs at twice the rate of Indiana (5.9%). In fact, Indiana’s rate lagged behind 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Trump praised Pence for balancing the state budget. “Can you imagine a balanced budget,” Trump marveled. But Indiana is legally required to balance the budget, as are all states except Vermont.

Trump said Indiana has an AAA bond rating. But that has been true since July 2008 — nearly five years before Pence took office. He also said “very few states have that,” when, in fact, 15 states do ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/17/fact-check-trump-oversells-pences-record/87219814/

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Go to Northwest Indiana and drive... Moostache Jul 2016 #1

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1. Go to Northwest Indiana and drive...

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Sun Jul 17, 2016, 10:04 PM

Jul 2016

Between the Indiana/Michigan state line and Chicago...it is goddamn frightening and part of why my father (who still lives there) calls the state under Pence "Indianistan".

Imagine pot holes the size of man hole covers.
Roads with large stretches that lack line divider markers or reflectors, that in the rain or at night become unmarked at all.
There are stretches that make driving at night a white-knuckle experience.

And that is just for openers...Pence, like Brownback in Kansas, was a total disaster in Indiana. He would likely have lost re-election and is a complete asshole ideologue.

I am going on record right now to predict that Trump "fires" him before the election and replaces him with some stoolie before the election in November...maybe one of his kids even, you know, makes the bumper sticker cleaner to just have one name anyway...

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