| THE PRESIDENCY SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT. HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE..
| After two years of Obama ... |
Here's your change!
| January 2009 | TODAY | % chg | Source |
| Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. | $1.83 | $3.44 | 84% | 1 | | | |
| Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) | $43..48 | $99..02 | 127.7% | 2 | | | |
| Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) | $38..74 | $91..38 | 135.9% | 2 | | | |
| Gold: London (per troy oz.) | $853.25 | $1,369.50 | 60.5% | 2 | | | |
| Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL | $3.56 | $6.33 | 78.1% | 2 | | | |
| Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL | $9.66 | $13..75 | 42.3% | 2 | | | |
| Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob | $13..37 | $35..39 | 164.7% | 2 | | | |
| Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall | 7.6% | 9.4% | 23.7% | 3 | | | |
| Unemployment rate, blacks | 12.6% | 15.8% | 25.4% | 3 | | | |
| Number of unemployed | 11,616,000 | 14,485,000 | 24.7% | 3 | | | |
| Number of fed. Employees | 2,779,000 | 2,840,000 | 2.2% | 3 | | | |
| Real median household income | $50,112 | $49,777 | -0.7% | 4 | | | |
| Number of food stamp recipients | 31,983,716 | 43,200,878 | 35.1% | 5 | | | |
| Number of unemployment benefit recipients | 7,526,598 | 9,193,838 | 22.2% | 6 | | | |
| Number of long-term unemployed | 2,600,000 | 6,400,000 | 146.2% | 3 | | | |
| Poverty rate, individuals | 13.2% | 14.3% | 8.3% | 4 | | | |
| People in poverty in U.S. | 39,800,000 | 43,600,000 | 9.5% | 4 | | | |
| U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings | 5 | 9 | n/a | 10 | | | |
| Present Situation Index | 29.9 | 23.5 | -21.4% | 11 | | | |
| Failed banks | 140 | 164 | 17.1% | 12 | | | |
| U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate | 89.76 | 82.03 | -8.6% | 2 | | | |
| U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions | 1,575.1 | 1,865.7 | 18.4% | 13 | | | |
| U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions | 8,310.9 | 8,852.3 | 6.5% | 13 | | | |
| National debt, in trillions | $10..627 | $14..052 | 32.2% | 14 | | | |
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Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane.
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH! Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 29 months -- so you have one year to come up with an answer.Every statement in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS...
I WONDER HOW MANY WILL FORWARD THIS ? "You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out." 'In God We Trust!' |
7 comments:
Where were you buying gas for $1.83 in 2009??? Your numbers are almost ALL skewed. Don't believe everything someone types up people. Especially the DINAR RV people that keep saying it will happen ANY DAY, any MINUTE, any SECOND. Heck for all we know it happened already and they just HAVEN'T TOLD US YET!!! Jeez, relax a little have some patience. Getting back to Obama, would any of you wanted to inherit the shit storm he took over? It's a no win situation for him. Give him a break. Yes he has his faults, but thank God he has a brain. Our last president was just a pawn without a brain. His Natzi Daddy pulled all his strings.
I looked at your numbers and checked most of them and it turns out that your information is either typos, made up, or just plain spin.
Now....some of these facts do show increases over this same 3 year period, but that's because President Obama was left with a huge recession that was spinning out of control. Most economist will tell you that a recession that big will normally take 7 to 10 years to climb out of and those same economist have gone on record as saying President Obama has done a great job in preventing a complete crash of our fragile economy. They also are saying the economy is turning around and is heading in the right direction.
President Obama needs all of you to at least look at the facts and not be lead down one path that puts out nothing but doom and gloom, not to mention hatred. So please be your own person and look at both sides. Decide for yourself about what is really going on in this country and the world as well. After all, we are very much tied to other countries and their economy.
President Obama really, really has a very, very difficult job to do and when you look at the entire picture, he has made great progress in turning things around. So give him a chance to complete his job.
President Obama promised Elkhart Indiana they would have Bonds to help pay small businesses to open and thrive. It was given to airport authorities and the small businesses in Elkhart died and because of it many more are now unemployed. Obama has lied again and again. Check out the Elkhart Truth when he spoke at Concord High School.
Yes, I have noticed how very difficult his job is...how many expensive vacations has he and the family taken since he has been in office? And WHO are these economists that tell us he has done such a great job? Name one! Where are YOUR FACTS, anony. 1 and 2? He was left with a recession spinning out of control?? That's strange...no one seemed to be aware of it! Obama has manufactured this crisis to empower himself and his radical Marxist associates to ensure them of controlling this nation from now into perpetuity! You need to take your own advice and examine the other side. Do some research instead of spouting out an uninformed opinion. As for these figures, the prices of commodities vary from day to day, hour to hour, week to week. It's easy to criticize and call them inaccurate when you don't know what you are talking about. Just another opinion...
Give him a chance to complete his job?? You mean send free Americans down the same path as Europe? Or do you mean bankrupt us and take away our constitutional rights while he's at it. It's not ALL his fault. We have a shitty congress too. We should start all over again...fire them all and put some real people in there. I like the idea of a part time government. Cut the pay in half and let them get the same benefits we get...at the same rate. No life-time pay. Help veterans that have fought our wars, and get rid of the Lobbyists. Those behind-closed-door deals are killing us. Make the UN pull out of NY and go someplace where WE don't have to fund it...and for God's sake (and that of our economy and national security), lets build that pipeline!! Unethical politics are taking over our country. Lets put God back in the USA (whether you believe or not is up to you) and even more so...stop the political correctness and let Chistians be proud of their religion. If we're going to die out its NOT because you buried us...its because we were beheaded for not taking the mark. I see another civil war in the USA and this time there will be no winners.
Ummm, since I've been in the RV industry for 20+ years, it was sad to Elkhart county suffer the way it did, BUT it has rebounded. I don't see "suffering" still going on there. The RV manufacturers(the main business in that area)are all running at the pre-election levels and there are new manufaturers starting. I think the poster on Dec.29th should re-evaluate. Maybe Elkhart didn't need the "bonds" in the end.
It's sad how many people think that Obama is so smart. I certainly don't see. He has got to be one of the biggest educated, idiots that I've seen in a long time. If he had stayed in the classroom he may have done well but he has no grasp of the regular, working people's world. It would also be nice if people would quit mentioning what other President's did, or did not do. I'm only worried about what is happening now, not history. I pray that we elect a leader instead of a reader.
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