Scary statistics

Comment #8

emilyg — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:08:07 GMT

Horrible statistics.

Comment #7

Coin Toss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:55:01 GMT

Did you read thre post above yours? Especially this part: Try to sidetrack the facts above... <br

Comment #6

Tenaj — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:34:37 GMT

Did you count the $13 trillion that went missing from the Fed and the Wall Street scandal what about that, the money that left this country going to the oil billionaires, and money made from outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies going overseas and to swiss bank account and let's not talk about the war and how that money was handled?

Comment #5

Coin Toss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:37:10 GMT

Call it a lie Try to sidetrack the facts above Blame it on Bush Or call us 'haters'. Too bad, facts are facts. <br

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:04:06 GMT

As long as they eat good and don't have to work.<br

Comment #3

sully16 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:36:52 GMT

It'll get much worse.

Comment #2

MADDOG10 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:08:25 GMT

barry has got them so snowballed, that IF he told them he was White instead of brown, they would believe him..

Comment #1

MADDOG10 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:03:07 GMT

Somehow they're going to say Mr.Romney had something to do with this, or as well it was George W. Bush's fault, and that these statistics are LIES.<br

Original Blog Entry: Scary statistics

Coin Toss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:47:49 GMT

Here's the % changes

SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT. HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE.

After three years of Obama ...

Here's your change!

January 2009

TODAY

% chg

Source

The above is the format for the following:

Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.

$1.83

$3.86

111%

1

Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)

$43..48

$102..02

129.7%

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%

8.3%

9.2%

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; (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

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