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June 30, 2011
JEF
“You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.”
*If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?*
*If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head? *
*If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who’s side he was on? *
*If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *
*If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed? *
*If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87,000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *
*If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes? *
*If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America ? *
*If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? *
*If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn’t you have had second thoughts about his capabilities? *
*If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a
self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk. *
*If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn’t you have winced in embarrassment? *
*If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?*
*If any other of our presidents’ administrations had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11? *
*If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? *
*If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have ever approved. *
*If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would
you have approved? *
*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 24 months — so you have that much time to come up with an answer.
*Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. *
AND NOW, HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO RE-ELECT HIM. HA! WAKE UP AMERICA 2012 IS UPON US.
HERE ARE THE FACTS:
Are you better off today than you were two years ago?
Facts don’t lie, and here is the data on the impact his administration has had on the lives of Americans:
|
|
January 2009
|
TOD A Y
|
% 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
|
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!
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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