While pushing Congress to pass the $831 billion stimulus package in 2009, President Obama promised that millions of jobs would be created, and or saved, and that the nation’s unemployment rate would fall to less than 8.0 %.

Three years on, there are 23 million unemployed, or under employed, Americans, the unemployment rate is 8.2%.

Final GDP numbers for 2011 show a not-too-sterling growth rate of 1.7%.