CHANGE! How is it workin for you since Karl Marx Jr got elected?
After two years of huinsane 0(zero)bama ... Here's your change!
|
ITEM |
January 2009 |
TODAY |
% chg |
Source |
|
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. |
$1.83 |
$3.95 |
115.8% |
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 |
$1,504.50 |
90.5% |
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 |
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 |
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
So, tell me again, what is it about 0(zero)bama 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'll have one year and ten months to come up with an answer.
0sama-0 (zero)bama wants to award TRADER hanoi jane IamNot-fonda
Subject: FW: Barbara Walters comments on Jane (I am NOT) Fonda
She can lead her present
life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO
NOT have to stand by without comment to see that she is "honored" as a
"Woman of the Century". Never Forgive A Traitor
For those of you too young to remember Hanoi Jane is a bad person and
did some terrible things during the Vietnam war. Things that can not be
forgiven!!!!
For those who served and/or died. . . NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!! and now 0 (zero) BAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
In Memory of LT. C.
Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton. She really is a
traitor.
This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after who do not remember,
and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older
brothers and sisters had to bear.. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of
the 100 Women of the Century.'
BARBRA WALTERS WRITES:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry
Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the ' Hanoi
Hilton',,, the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing
in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group,
too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a
'peace delegation' visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that
they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of
paper, with his Social Security Number on it , in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line,
shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like:
'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the
humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be
an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.. At the end of the line and
once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces
of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost
number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her
actions that day.
I was a civilian
economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for
over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a
cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi . My North
Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female
missionary, a nurse in a
leprosarium in Banme Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle
near the Cambodian border.. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
(My normal weight is 170 lbs)
We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals....'When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her..I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as 'humane and lenient.'
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.' Lest we forget....' 100 Years of Great Women' should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I
have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as
many people as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on
her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget.
RONALD D. SAMPSON,
CMSgt,
USAF 716 Maintenance
Squadron,
Chief of Maintenance DSN:
875-6431 COMM: 883-6343