Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Top 25 Numbers of the Obama Administration

It's been quite awhile since I've written a blog post.  But I think it is time to write again.  This first post is in response to the 47% comment made by Romney at that fundraiser last spring.  Now, you won't get an argument from me about whether he articulated his point well or not.  I don't think he did.  But a simple reading of the text will reveal that the 47%, as he put it, actually represents the percentage of people he surmises would never vote for him no matter what.  He did NOT say that he didn't care about those people.  What he DID say was that he is not going to waste time trying to convince them to vote for him.  That he was more concerned about winning the votes of the 6-10% who are undecided.

That being said, even IF you could turn his 47% into a negative number and attach it to his campaign, let's take a look at the top 25 'numbers' associated with Obama and let's see if they sway any of those 6-10% undecided.

1) +8.0% unemployment - 44 straight months

2) 11.4% TRUE unemployment

3) 14.8% REAL unemployment

4) 23million unemployed or underemployed

5) 47million on food stamps

6) $16Trillion in Debt....YES, Mr. President, WE remember.

7) 1 in 6 living in poverty

8) 8.2% decline in median income per household

9) more new welfare recipients than jobs created last month

10) 6million middle class families paying the Obamacare TAX

11) 4 dead Americans in Libya

12) 100+ golf rounds

13) 150+ fundraisers (including one the day after 4 dead Americans)

14) less than 40%  of intelligence briefings attended


15) who know how many dead because of Fast and Furious

16) 1/3 of the Gitmo detainees to be released...nicely timed announcement after Libya


17) $3.85/gallon gas

18) 40+ czars with no Senate approval

19) $1.8T/year revised cost of Obamacare

20) $716B taken from Medicare to make Obamacare APPEAR revenue neutral

21) $300K...average cost from the stimulus per job created or saved (and that's ONLY if you believe the Obama Administration's claim that the Stimulus created or saved 4 million jobs)

22) >$500M to Solyndra

23) $3000 average increase in the cost of family health insurance.

24) $2500 what Obama said would be the average DECREASE in the cost of health insurance through Obamacare.

25) ZERO - number of budgets passed in the last 3+ years

Let's hope that last number also represents the number of additional years Obama remains our president.

4 comments:

JMichael39 said...

Some honorable mention numbers have come in since the writing of this blog:

1) 1.25% adjusted growth in Q2
2) 13.2 DECLINE in durable good orders last month
3) 31.2% INCREASE in the number of low paying jobs in 2011 (low paying meaning $12/hour or less).

JMichael39 said...

A few more numbers:

4) $7.4B to be cut from Medicare Advantage (postponed until after the election) costing recipients:
5) $515/year in average benefits lost to Medicare Advantage recipients
6) July 31, 2012, the date the Labor Dept. warned defense contractors not to tell their employees of impending job cuts until AFTER the election

JMichael39 said...

How could I forget this number, it may even belong in the top 25:

7) $3.85/gallon for gas...100% increase since he took office.

JMichael39 said...

A few more numbers to add:

8) 32% increase in welfare in four years

9) $1.03TRILLION spent on welfare in 2011

10) 18% increase in violent crime (first increase in 20 years)