NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.

After two years of Obama...

If this doesn't shock you nothing will....

	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
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
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%	¹³
U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)	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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Comment by Sandra on February 22, 2011 at 10:56pm: Like you, I have no clue what will wake up the people that support him, maybe when the money is gone and they are left in the street starving? I still hear that phrase, Nothing I can do about things". Guess people rather stick there heads back in the sand and hope others will take care of things, or they will wake up and all will be well again.