Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Obama Legacy: And it's only just begining!

 $46 Trillion:             Amount of Spending Contained In Obama's Latest Budget Over Ten Years (Office Of Management And Budget, 2/14/11)

$26.3 Trillion:         Amount of Debt Expected In 2021 (Office Of Management And Budget, 2/14/11)

$15.48 Trillion:       Estimated Amount of Debt This Year (Office Of Management And Budget, 2/14/11)

$7.2 Trillion:           Ten-Year Deficits Under Obama's Budget (Office Of Management And Budget, 2/14/11)

$1.65 Trillion:         Estimated FY 2011 Deficit (Office Of Management And Budget, 2/14/11)

$814 Billion:            Price Tag of Obama's Failed Stimulus (Bloomberg, 8/20/10)

$2 Billion:                 Amount of Stimulus Funds That Have Gone To Foreign
          Manufacturers of Wind Turbines (ABC News, 2/9/10)

43.6 Million:            Number of People on Food Stamps (The Wall Street Journal, 2/2/11)

13.9 Million:            Unemployed Americans  (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10/8/10)

$6 Million:               Amount of Stimulus Funds Used To Make Snow In Snowy Duluth, MN   (The Wall Street Journal, 10/28/09)

3.8 Million:              Increase In The Number Of People Who Fell Into Poverty In 2009   (NPR, 9/16/10)

$325,394:              Amount of Stimulus Funds to Study How Environment Affects The Mating Decisions of Female Cactus Bugs (The Orlando Sentinel, 2/16/10)

$219,000:              Amount of Stimulus Funds to Study the Sex Life Of Female College Freshmen (The Daily Orange, 3/7/10)

102.6 Percent:      Debt to GDP Ratio to Be Reached This Year (The Washington Times, 2/14/11)

68 Percent:           Number of Americans Who Disapprove Of Obama's Handling Of The Budget (Gallup, 1015A, MoE 4%, 2/2-5/11)

9 Percent:             Current Unemployment Rate (U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed: 2/16/11)

8 Percent:             Unemployment Rate Obama Promised We'd Stay under if the Stimulus was passed

0:                            Number of White House Officials Who Agreed To Testify Regarding The Stimulus (The Wall Street Journal, 2/16/11)

0:                            Number of Shovel-Ready Projects Obama Now Admits Exist. (The New York Times, 10/13/10)

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