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发帖数: 8227 | 1 #1 The Obama administration projects that the federal budget deficit will be
approximately $1,600,000,000,000 this year. Right now the Republicans and
the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail over budget cuts. The Republicans
are proposing to cut the budget deficit by 3.8%. The Democrats only want
to cut it by 2.1%.
#2 The U.S. economy actually grew more between 1930 and 1940 than it did
during the decade that recently ended.
#3 Over the last decade, the number of Americans without health insurance
has risen from about 38 million to about 52 million.
#4 Agricultural commodities are absolutely soaring. The price of corn has
more than doubled over the last 12 months. Considering the fact that corn
is in literally thousands of our food products, that is a very frightening
statistic.
#5 Between 1999 and 2009, real median household income in the United States
declined by 5.0%.
#6 It is being estimated that total U.S. government debt will grow by 42
percent by the year 2015.
#7 According to the Pentagon, the cost of the first week of attacks on Libya
was 600 million dollars.
#8 The average American now spends approximately 23 percent of his or her
income on food and gas.
#9 According to the U.S. Energy Department, the average U.S. household will
spend approximately $700 more on gasoline in 2011 than it did during 2010.
#10 It is being projected that for the first time ever, the OPEC nations are
going to bring in over a trillion dollars from exporting oil this year.
Their biggest customer is the United States.
#11 According to the Economic Policy Institute, almost 25 percent of U.S.
households now have zero net worth or negative net worth. Back in 2007,
that number was just 18.6 percent.
#12 China produced 19.8 percent of all the goods consumed in the world last
year. The United States only produced 19.4 percent.
#13 The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per
month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#14 The U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it
was back in 1990.
#15 U.S. home values have fallen an astounding 6.3 trillion dollars since
the peak of the real estate market in 2005.
#16 According to RealtyTrac, one out of every 45 U.S. households was hit
with a foreclosure filing in 2010.
#17 The number of homes that were actually repossessed reached the 1 million
mark for the first time ever during 2010.
#18 New home sales in the United States set a brand new all-time record low
in the month of February.
#19 Now home sales in the United States are now down 80% from the peak in
July 2005.
#20 The financial condition of American families continues to deteriorate
rapidly. In 2010, one out of every eight American families had at least one
family member that was unemployed. That number was the highest it has been
since the U.S. Labor Department began keeping track of that statistic back
in 1994.
#21 There are now more than 6 million Americans that the government says
have given up looking for work completely.
#22 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average length of
unemployment in the U.S. is now an all-time record 39 weeks.
#23 Americans now owe more than $900 billion on student loans, which is also
an all-time record high.
#24 Average household debt in the United States has now reached a level of
136% of average household income.
#25 According to the Federal Reserve, between 2007 and 2009 median household
net worth in the United States fell by 23 percent.
#26 The Federal Reserve also says that median household debt in the United
States has risen to $75,600.
#27 According to a recent article posted on the website of the American
Institute of Economic Research, the purchasing power of a U.S. dollar
declined from $1.00 in 1913 to 4.6 cents in 2009. Sadly, the Federal
Reserve is working very hard to get rid of the little bit of purchasing
power that the U.S. dollar has left. | D**S
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