Re: [Awake4HisReturn] Fw: Two years ago today, Barack Obama
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On Wed Feb 16th, 2011 3:05 PM EST drena brown wrote:
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>----- Forwarded Message ----
>From: ~ Les ~ <lordsgym333@yahoo.com>
>To: lordsgym333@peoplepc.com
>Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 11:00:52 AM
>Subject: Fw: Two years ago today, Barack Obama
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>This was forwarded to me from a friend. What do you think?
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>Smile Jesus loves you
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>Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United
>States . Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't
>lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:
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> January 2009 TODAY % chg Source
>Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 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, ex. military (curr = 12/10 prelim) 2,779,000 2,840,000
>2.2% 3
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>Real median household income (2008 v 2009) $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4
>Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10) 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5
>Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10) 7,526,598 9,193,838
>22.2% 6
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>Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% 3
>Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009) 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4
>People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009) 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 (curr = 12/10) 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11
>Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) 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 (curr = 12/10 prelim) 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4%
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>U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13
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>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! This is a disaster!
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>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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