(I "hope" you can withstand  it...)     January 2009 TODAY % "change" Source Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $4.14 + 250% 84% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43..48 $109..02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38..74 $99..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 $8.33 78.1% 2 Soybeans, No. 1 yellow,   IL $9.66 $15.75 42.3% 2 Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob $13..37 $35..39 164.7% 2 Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall     23.7% 3 Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3 Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% -2.9 mil 3 Number of Federal Employees 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% (+61,000) 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% +11.2 mil 5 Number of unemployment benefit recipients 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% +1.7 mil 6 Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% +38 million 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% +3.8 mil 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% +290.5 Billion $$ 13 U.S.. Money supply, M2, in Billions 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% +241.4 Billion $$ 13 National debt, in Trillions $10..627 $14..052 32.2% +3.425 Trillion $$ 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

 

 

THE

PRESIDENCY

 

 

 

 

SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND

SOME WILL NOT.

 

HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS

TRUE.  

 

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 only 24 months -- so you'll have one year and

ten 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 SHOULD READ

THIS...

I WONDER HOW MANY WILL FORWARD

THIS ?

 

 

I would like to recommend a book: "Dismantling America" by Thomas Sowell; (He has been saying things, all along, that you have been thinking).  This would be a good book to pass along to your children, grandchildren, or anyone else living through these times.  [As an 'aside',..anything you might learn about Thomas Sowell along the way will, I promise you, surprise you greatly.]    {Thomas Sowell quotes follow...}

"It is bad enough that we have a glib and sophomoric narcissist in the White House...  Moral exhibitionism is beneath contempt, when it sacrifices the safety of those who live within the law for the sake of self-satisfied preening, whether in editorial offices or in the White House...  Think about the next time someone talks about "honoring the troops"  when what they are really doing is depicting the troops as victims, and the country they are fighting for as no better than any other... Bending over backward is a very bad position from which to try to defend yourself."  - Thomas Sowell