now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. 23 million people, unemployed or underempl underemployed. nearly 1 in 6 americans is in poverty. millions of young americans have graduated from college during the obama presidency. ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. half of them can't find the work they studied for or any work at all. so, here's the question. without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? [ applause ] the first troubling sign came with the stimulus. it was president obama's first and best shot at fixing the economy. at a time when he got everything he wanted under one pa-party ru. it cost $831 billion. the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government. it went to companies like solyndra, with their gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs and make believe markets. the stimulus was a case of corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst. you -- you the american people of this country, were cut out of the deal. what did taxpayers get out of the obama stimulus? more debt. that money wasn't j