Just to recap now that Barack Obama has been in office for nine months.

U.S. military fatalities in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2009 are 251, with more than two months yet to go. In 2007 and 2008 combined, U.S. fatalities were 273.

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At the end of December 2008, the last month Obama was not president, the federal unemployment rate was 7.1 percent.

Despite billions spent on "stimulus" programs in the first nine months of the Obama presidency, unemployment is at

9.8 percent and expected to be more than 10 percent by the end of October.

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In just nine months, the Obama presidency has watched as the federal deficit skyrocket from less than $500 billion to more than $1.8 trillion.

To put that in perspective, that's roughly $ 6,000 of government debt for every man, woman and child in this country (well, the ones here legally anyway).

It's important to know that fact, because every man, woman and child in this country is where the money to pay it back will come from.

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And now the president wants the government to get into the health care business. The liberal spin machine has brainwashed the public to believe that everyone opposed to Obama's plan is a racist. Maybe they are just concerned with the way this president has run this country so far and don't want to see him running and ruining other aspects of their lives.

What this country really needs is less government in their lives, not more.