After Three 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
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 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; (
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'll have about 4 months to come up with an answer.
Every statement in this email is factual and directly attributable to barack hussein obama.
Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS...
I WONDER HOW MANY
WILL FORWARD THIS?