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Here's your Hope and Change
One of my frequent readers and fellow conservatives, who would like to be referred to as "Believer Bee," sent me the following e-mail. Given that Barack Obama has already decided it's best - and easier - to start campaigning for 2012, rather than addressing any of the pressing issues currently facing the country, it is a real eye-opener to factually discover how things have "changed" since Obama became President. In all honesty, how anyone with a shred of common sense could vote for Barack Obama in 2012 - is beyond comprehension. Here goes:
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 |
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 1,755 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
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What this data doesn't address is President Obama's knack for turning off our allies and allowing the United States to be pushed around by our enemies. We have a president in office who doesn't seem to have the best interest of America at the forefront. Instead he likes to go on apology tours around the globe, which get glowing reviews from the usual "blame America first" crowd like the media and other liberals. In addition, Obama is continually promoting the "rich vs. the poor" and the "private sector vs. the public sector" mentality, which only serves to expose Obama as a great divider. (Wasn't he supposed to be the great "uniter" as the Obama followers believed before Obama was even elected?) With a president like this "leading" the country, the future of the United States is clearly on a downward path. This must end. We need to elect a Republican - with conservative values and the best interest of the country at heart come 2012. The alternative - four more years of Barry O. - will only serve to perpetuate a crisis from which America, and the American people, may never be able to recover.
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33 Comments
jhayett - May 28, 2011 2:29 PM
SPalin - May 28, 2011 2:46 PM
car rockets past you in the left lane. 27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555
MPH!"
Mathematically speaking, it would be traveling at a speed of 1755 mph.
Believer Bee is unBeelievable! :D
irked - May 28, 2011 3:27 PM
it is 130 miles per hour . That is pretty fast ! Lets double that it would be 260 miles
per hour ! How many people have traveled at that speed on the ground ? Not many
.But 1755 miles an hour is nothing lets double it again . lol...
irked - May 28, 2011 3:28 PM
jhayett - May 28, 2011 3:48 PM
ahemmer - May 28, 2011 4:02 PM
By the way, SPalin, Believer Bee only forwarded this e-mail information on to me. She did not do the research or put together the information. It was collected from data from the various sources listed in the post. So don't blame her for the one mistake you had your "ah ha" moment over...
MGarber - May 28, 2011 7:11 PM
irked - May 28, 2011 11:03 PM
ExToDResident - May 28, 2011 11:45 PM
The republicans started running in 2010.
November 4, 2010…In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky)
“Over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term in office. But the fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things. We can hope the President will start listening to the electorate after Tuesday’s election. But we can’t plan on it.”
ExToDResident - May 29, 2011 12:36 AM
http://thecurmudgeonsattic.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/another-excellent-economic-analysis-this-time-by-ronald-mckinnon/
ExToDResident - May 29, 2011 12:40 AM
Hear anything from Fox on this yet??
sharpaxe - May 29, 2011 3:27 AM
SPalin - May 29, 2011 9:23 AM
Osama Bin Laden Alive Dead
Carl Hicks - May 29, 2011 10:07 AM
under the last president are now somehow the fault of this one.
ExToDResident - May 29, 2011 10:19 AM
I believe I will heed your advice to not waste my time.
I thought it was already determined in Amy’s Gas Price Hypocrisy blog that a president has no control over commodity prices.
The true point of this blob is that since the “liberals beat up on Bush” it is now the conservatives turn to beat up Obama, with a vengeance.
What I find curious about these blogs is how the conservatives want to hear a “liberals” opinion on a subject.
But also want the “liberal” to somehow validate that opinion.
While they believe their own opinions are to be accepted as the truth and facts.
SPalin - May 29, 2011 1:10 PM
Funny funny, or, funny in an unBeelievably gullible sense?
geno53151 - May 29, 2011 1:23 PM
Obama has had over 2 years in office and he has not solved the problems he was elected for. How long do we have to wait until things improve? In the 2012 election, he will continue to blame Bush (same as Liberals commenting in your blog). I can hear him now, just give me 4 more years and I will solve our countries, and the worlds problems.
God Bless those serving our Country and our Veterans this Memorial Day
irked - May 29, 2011 2:09 PM
Again we compare what some think is an idiot to the o ! Apparently Bush was smart
or the o is a bigger idiot . Which is it PDLS's ?
ExToDResident - May 29, 2011 8:38 PM
Apparently it only a rule that “liberals” needs to follow.
I ask; when or with whom does it end?
jhayett - May 29, 2011 9:01 PM