NEW: Hinckley Releases Web Video - Economics for Five-Year-Olds
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Barry Hinckley for Senate campaign today released the latest in its ongoing series of web videos. The one minute video, which can be viewed on YouTube, features Hinckley’s son, Hudson, addressing a brief economics lesson to his fellow five-year-olds. Hudson Hinckley compares a sequence of current economic indicators to where they stood on his birthday in September of 2006, asking, “Five-year-olds: are you better off now than you were five years ago?”
“The video is intentionally funny and lighthearted, but the point it makes is ultimately quite serious,” explained Barry Hinckley. “My son was born just before election day in 2006. Since then, nearly every economic indicator has gotten much worse. In Rhode Island, the situation is particularly bad. Your children and my children deserve a future brighter than what the career politicians are handing them. That’s the single biggest reason I left my career in the private sector to run for the United States Senate,” said Hinckley.
The video highlights the following economic trends:
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• Price of Gasoline in Rhode Island - September 2006: $2.35, February 2012: $3.65
• US Public Debt - September 2006: $8.5 trillion, February 2012: $15.3 trillion
• Unemployment in Rhode Island - September 2006: 4.9%, February 2012: 10.8%
“Career politicians, both Democrat and Republican, are to blame for our current economic problems,” Hinckley continued. “The vast majority of voters realize that our country and our state are clearly headed in the wrong direction. Still, the political elites have not yet woken up. ‘Economics for Five Year Olds’ shows that the failure of our current politicians carries real consequences for Rhode Island’s children and families,” Hinckley concluded.
Appropriately, the video ends with a report card: F- for career politicians, A+ for Barry Hinckley.
