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you are having progress you can measure it by whether people saw wages and income going up or go in belem. -- or going down. ok. for the last -- or going down. for the last four years, the median income has dropped by $3,000. -- 10%. health care costs have gone up. gas prices have doubled. food costs have gone up. the second measure he has failed. the third measure he spoke about -- he said to see progress, you would want to see people with a dream or idea of being able to take the risk to start a new business. what has happened in the world of business start-ups? they have dropped by about 150,000 a year under this president. again, on the measure he himself set out, he has failed. there are a lot of other measures as well. we have record levels of people on food stamps, record levels of poverty. the number of people who dropped from the middle class into poverty has reached historic proportions. you have at the same time home values that have dropped by 30% or more in some places, and in some cases still going the wrong. on almost every measure, this president has failed. he has also fa