“The Damage Obama Has Done”
I lifted the following chart from “The Damage Obama Has Done” by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann:
| 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 |
HT: wtd
Posted by WM on Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 9:53 am | 
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WPE! (Worst President Ever)
We don’t have to ask how that Hope and Change is working out, because it’s not. God save our country from the Obamanation.
This will make a great re-election platform.
It’s Bush’ fault.
The Destroyer.
fuck you too, barack
Thanks, WM!
I will save this one!
Much of Zero’s damage is by Cloward-Priven design to destroy the U.S.
This is the definition of presidentail fail.
He has caused everything to have a negative value…
unemployment is up…. 146%…since 2009
our present situation is down 21% …since 2009
all because of less economic freedom…he just doesn’t get it…
Odumbo is a record breaking idiot….
*Cloward-Piven
Rob,
Zero is incompetent at anything good and useful. But much of that list is by Zero’s design, even if it’s letting everything go to seed.
We’ll all have a good laugh at this in the summer of 2013……….after we seize the assets of all the liberals who committed fraud against the people of the United States.
Oh yes, all the government grants that liberals gave to their friends and families to provide ‘Green Power’, the deeds to those properties will return to the rightful owners, the taxpayers. All the exclusive government contracts given to GE to lift it out of the ruin the certainly awaited it under the leadership of Jeff Imelt, they will only serve to payback the national debt after those assets are sold at auction.
This has been a systematic effort to weaken the United States through financial fraud, and to coerce it’s people into submission. It will not be forgotten, nor forgiven.
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@Larry… here’s a little something for you…
and ties in with gastorgrab’s use of the term coercion ….
One hardly needs to give examples of government inability to solve problems but, if one is needed, the way Argentina’s Juan Peron proposed to deal with rising prices is at least amusing: He threatened to shoot any shopkeeper who put his prices up!
Needless to say this was a good way of getting shopkeepers to shut their doors and turn Argentina into one big black market — thus driving prices UP — but it was not a solution to anything.
Risible though Peron’s ideas may have been, however, the reliance on coercion by Communist regimes was not dissimilar and was equally counterproductive and impoverishing. Coercion of any sort or degree — whether by governments or anybody else — is generally a poor and ineffective way of doing things.
Furthermore, governments everywhere remove large slices of the workforce out of productive activity and into paper-shuffling so are principally successful at impoverishing their communities but Leftists in some way manage not to care about that despite their vocal claim to be concerned about poverty.
If they really were concerned about poverty, they would want to REDUCE the number of things government did! That they do not shows the hollowness of their “concern”.
The now worldwide trend towards privatization and deregulation, however, shows that even governments themselves eventually have to admit that their cures are often worse than the disease.
When governments as diverse as the “Communists” of China and the Hindu nationalists of India have now embraced deregulation and privatization (with great success),
the continuing Left/liberal infatuation with government exposes them as the dinosaurs in the world of ideas.
Think how long the next President is going to need to heal our country. It may have taken just 2 years for him to create this much damage, but it always takes much longer to heal the damage than it does to create it. Look how long it takes for your car to be repaired after a fender-bender.
Thanks, Rob.
Excellent comment (as usual).
Just look at Wisconsin’s unions reaction to attempts to fix the problems and you can see the leftist’s attitudes towards efforts directed to stem the flow of blood…Leftists and libturds are used to sapping the strengths of the country and they will not go down without a nasty fight…
Obama the destroyer creating dependency 24-7-365
All that and Obama and the Wookie are on a trip to visit her cousin Sasquatch
and the Obaminable Snowman
Everyone Must Sacrifice… Michelle Obama Enjoys a Ski Weekend in Vail
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 19, 2011, 8:57 AM
In January 2009, before the president signed his failed $787 billion stimulus bill into law, Barack Obama lectured America saying,
“Everyone must sacrifice for the greater good… Everyone must have some skin in the game.”
Everyone but Barack and Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama is enjoying a quick trip to Vail for Presidents Day weekend with a motorcade of a dozen vehicles.
The Vail Daily reported:
First lady Michelle Obama is among the Presidents Day weekend crowd.
Obama arrived Friday night for a weekend of skiing in Vail and Beaver Creek, according to local sources.
A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle.
The motorcade entered an underground garage beneath the Sebastian hotel in Vail Village shortly after 9:30 p.m.
It’s Historic! Just like from day one!! Hope and Change!!! Woooo Hoooo!!!!
OK, just to be fair, the price of sugar also reflects drought, typhoons and other weather events that affected the sugarcane, sugar beets and other sources. So that is not, entirely, Obama’s fault. Yet. I’m sure he’ll find a way to foul that up too.
@whthtfk
I thought he didn’t go to church in DC…
because he didn’t want to be disruptive
although on vacations …he could care less about being disruptive….
imagine saving money for a grand ski trip…
only to have your vacation ruined..
by secret service agents restricting you to certain areas…
oh yeah odumbo cares…. only about himself
Damn lying statistics!!
/BHO
Rob.
I would be pissed. You can get reimbursed airline tickets maybe hotel but still the lifts will be closed well just about everything will be closed .Its such a hard place to control and lock down. This is going to cost us even more for special sky patrols not to mention all the secret service and their lodging.
It’s still odd that our MSM has not been mentioning any of Obama’s Trips or Vacations and those non campaign fundraisers they’re at during the week while Obama focuses like a laser on jobs.
As soon as the Obama’s get back from screwing up Veil Colorado they will have to rest up for their Black history month Motown gala, then a vacation before heading off to England for a vacation.
After all nobody knows how to celebrate taken extreme advantage of skin pigmentation better then the Obama’s.
And no, I do not mean that in a racist manner, I mean it as a fact.
Affirmative action at its peak.
MSM must have signed one of those secrecy waivers and aren’t allowed to talk about the amount of taxpayer’s money the Obama’s continue to waste on themselves.
Congress should intact a new law making the President pay for all food and lodging no matter where they are. If they want to throw big parties and fly all over the United States for Fundraisers and Campaigns they should be sent the bill.
We should not pay for anything that is not helping all American’s have a safer and more prosperous country. (Parties ski trips shaved ice and Spain is not helping America, they’re only helping the Obama’s and their posses.
Raising money for the DNC or his or her own campaign should come out of the president’s pocket.
Vacations too.
Camp David must not be good enough for the Wookie.
I’m worried about England and them trashing the Royal Palace
Can you imagine what it’s going to be like having tweedle dee and tweedle dumb there with their huge entourage and lack or proper protocol or Respect for the Queen.
I’m wondering if this is a try to keep Obama from declaring war on England because they weren’t invited to William and Kates Wedding?
Were going to need to brace ourselves for continued embarrassment from the lack of respect and manners these two lack.
When they get back we will probably be at War with half of Europe.
At least the ones who still consider us allies
@whthfk…
so much country to destroy…. so little time to do it…
Rob.
LOL with the Wookies ass she is a one man wreaking ball all on her own, she could do mass damage to Colorado in no time.
How long before her ass causes avalanche in Veil?
@whthfk…
just her yawning ought to do the trick…lol…
Bill Whittle has always done a fine job of calling just the way it is and documanting it. Below , a chronological reminder of how he has intentionally and systematically destroyed this country and our allies. Only to befriend our worst enemies. (FANTASTIC video below)
This President and all that back him, support him,finance him, report for him and plan for him are truly the enemy of these great United States of America.
Everyday, in the obituaries we lose thousands of wwii vets and there is not one ounce of gratitude anywhere—totally disgusting. How is it they and all the other vets from all other wars gave all of their tomorrows so we may have today.
Then, to have this group of disgusting nihilistic ungrateful punks occupy the WH and throw it all away is beyond acceptable. It is utterly beyond anyone’s belief system. Our great veterans went thousands of miles away to foreign shores to fight evil and tyrants–only to have that same enemy occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
We should not let this group of Repub weaklings pick our next candidate–we need a powerhouse.-kryptonite to Obama–GO WEST
http://www.bermanpost.com/2011/02/obamas-friends-and-enemies.html
Whoever runs on the GOP side only needs to use this chart in their campaign, it most likely will only get worse.
Those unemployment numbers are pure fiction.
I can’t blame Barak Obama (aka Barry Dunham, aka Barak Dunham, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barak Soetoro, aka Barry Obama), (SSN’s starting with 042, 042, 537, 2 starting with 999, 485, even more listed here… http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/SocialSecurity.htm), it’s the Democrats and RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who have assisted him.
I am getting tired of some saying that ( he), Obama doesn’t get it. He does get it, that is why the country is in such bad shape. What he is doing is intentional. He hates the United States of America and wants it gone from the face of this earth.
90% of blacks still love the guy. The same for the whites on the Upper
West Side of Manhattan. The “won” still has “juice”.
i did
But he didn’t mean to do this. He had good intentions and only wants to make sure no person is left behind. How cruel can all of his critics be?
@”Carol L” agreed, he hates America & is doing his best to humiliate and destroy it.
@”barbedwhyre” And I’ll bet they’re still chanting “bama gonna pay my rent” too.
I swear there should be an IQ test done before anyone is allowed to vote. Idiots who would vote for anyone because of skin color don’t deserve the vote.
getting elected was all about the perks of the office. too bad the perks will continue after he is booted out. this guy would end up in the gutter just like all those dumb fucks that win a couple million in the lottery and think they can spend a billion.
I pray everyday to have, once again, a president that loves America like Ronald Reagan did.