OBAMA PRESIDENCY
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
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

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

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 41 months — so you’ll have about 7 months to come up with an answer. Every statement in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.

everyone who runs for presidency is after power. republicans and democrats alike. one simply has to choose the lesser of only two evils because we live in a two-party system.

it seems people are so busy fumbling with random little puzzle-piece political facts that they forget to incorporate human nature into their interpretation of government. they assume that, because it’s remained RELATIVELY incorruptible (heavy emphasis on relatively!) for so long, people assume it could never fall to such states as, say, nazi germany. it’s our pretentious view of our intelligence and honesty that’s causing us to project this same image onto our political leaders if they have the right propoganda to back them up. it’s turned into a game of he-said she-said and we civillians are being pitted against one another while the fat cats over in DC play their gluttonous political games filigreed with crony capitalism and fallacies. citizens are so terrified for their well-being with the state our economy is in that they are willingly selling themselves into slavery by placing their safety in the government, and thus allowing it to become bigger and bigger in exchange for protection from terrorism, medical care, etc.

It really is simple. You do work to create something of value. You sell that thing of value and use the money to buy other things of value.

Restrictions can only get in the way of that. Yes, it’s simplistic. Economics is a simple thing. The only reason it gets complicated is because people try to move the value around like a shell game so that the average person can’t tell where the money is coming from or where it’s going anymore.