numbers. if you ignored who the candidates were, you said what does it really tell us? look, here s the 2010 figure. according to that study of the median family worth. and by comparison to what was before in 2007 under george bush $126,000. if you just look at those two unin, this looks huge. it looks obviously like things were much better here than here. but the key is you have to go beyond that and you have to look at what s happening beyond it. which is the question of this. what were we losing money on. the simple truth is we lost money on our jobs because a lot of people weren t making the money they expected to make. we lost money on our savings because people weren t expecting that either. the big loser, this is the key to all this, the big loser is over here in the question of savings. or the question of home ownership. right there. that s where the big, big precipitous fall came in terms of what people were owning and where they lost all of their family value. and l
that study of the median family worth and by comparison what it was before in 2007, if you just look at those two numbers, this looks huge. it looks obviously like things were better here and here, but the key is you have to go beyond that and look at what s happening beyond it which is the question of this. what were we losing money on? the simple truth is we lost money on our jobs, we lost money on our savings because people weren t expecting that either, but the big loser is over here in the question of savings f home ownership, right there. that s where the big, big, precipitous fall came in terms of what people were owning and where they lost all of their family value. and look at this chart when that happened. if you look at u.s. home prices, the number one driving force in changing that change in value of net value, median home value, happened right in here. president obama didn t take office until about here, so you can see this gigantic climb in home values, huge fal
this. if you ignored who the candidates were, here s the 2010 figure, $77,300 according to that study of the median family worth and by comparison what it was before in 2007, if you just look at those two numbers, this looks huge. it looks obviously like things were better here and here, but the key is you have to go beyond that and look at what s happening beyond it which is the question of this. what were we losing money on? the simple truth is we lost money on our jobs, we lost money on our savings because people weren t expecting that either, but the big loser is over here in the question of savings f home ownership, right there. that s where the big, big, precipitous fall came in terms of what people were owning and where they lost all of their family value. and look at this chart when that happened. if you look at u.s. home prices, the number one driving force in changing that change in value of net value, median home value, happened right in here. president obama didn
study, here s what he had to say. well, i knew that s why the american people are having such a hard time. that s why the idea of selecting as a campaign slogan forward is object sushd. mitt romney seems to be placing the blame on president obama. there s no doubt that that 40% drop is terrible. but what s lost in the comments is the fact the three years we re talking about are from 2007 to 2010. president obama didn t take office until 2009. so president obama and his supporters say you can t blame him, you have to look at the situation he inherited. you can agree with that or disagree. but in case you think i m siding with president obama here, let me point out that president obama seems guilty of similar tactics. in a new campaign ad he zings governor romney for some bad ads in massachusetts. it could also be blamed on what he inherited when he took office. that is the key to all of this. if you ignored who the candidates were, here s the 2010 figure, $77,300 accordi
a hard time. that s why the idea of selecting as a campaign slogan forward is object sushd. mitt romney seems to be placing the blame on president obama. there s no doubt that that 40% drop is terrible. but what s lost in the comments is the fact the three years we re talking about are from 2007 to 2010. president obama didn t take office until 2009. so president obama and his supporters say you can t blame him, you have to look at the situation he inherited. you can agree with that or disagree. but in case you think i m siding with president obama here, let me point out that president obama seems guilty of similar tactics. in a new campaign ad he zings governor romney for some bad ads in massachusetts. it could also be blamed on what he inherited when he took office. that is the key to all of this. if you ignored who the candidates were, here s the 2010 figure, $77,300 according to that study of the median family worth and by comparison what it was before in 2007, if you