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![]() 50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...azy-to-believe even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don't make dramatic changes immediately. If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them. Just "tweaking" things here and there is not going to fix this economy. We truly do need a fundamental change in direction. America is consuming far more wealth than it is producing and our debt is absolutely exploding. If we stay on this current path, an economic collapse is inevitable. Hopefully the crazy economic numbers from 2011 that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up. At this time of the year, a lot of families get together, and in most homes the conversation usually gets around to politics at some point. Hopefully many of you will use the list below as a tool to help you share the reality of the U.S. economic crisis with your family and friends. If we all work together, hopefully we can get millions of people to wake up and realize that "business as usual" will result in a national economic apocalypse. The following are 50 economic numbers from 2011 that are almost too crazy to believe.... #1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty. #2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be "low income" or impoverished. #3 If the number of Americans that "wanted jobs" was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent. #4 The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks. #5 One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers. #6 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then. #7 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation. #8 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million. #9 A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed. #10 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages. #11 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs. #12 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job. #13 One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job. #14 The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone. #15 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent. #16 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married. #17 The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year. #18 In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked. #19 Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 months in a row. #20 If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000. #21 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago. #22 New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011. #23 As I have written about previously, 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents. #24 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row. #25 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%. #26 One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt. #27 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards. #28 The United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States. #29 It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollars. #30 The retirement crisis in the United States just continues to get worse. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement. #31 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line. #32 According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America's biggest companies rose by 36.5% in just one recent 12 month period. #33 Today, the "too big to fail" banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011. #34 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined. #35 According to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by the Pew Research Center, the median net worth for households led by someone 65 years of age or older is 47 times greater than the median net worth for households led by someone under the age of 35. #36 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero. #37 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7%) than has ever been measured before. #38 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007. #39 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent. #40 Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over America. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty. #41 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps. #42 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income. #43 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent. #44 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP. Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent. #45 For fiscal year 2011, the U.S. federal government had a budget deficit of nearly 1.3 trillion dollars. That was the third year in a row that our budget deficit has topped one trillion dollars. #46 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days. #47 Amazingly, the U.S. government has now accumulated a total debt of 15 trillion dollars. When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars. #48 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt. #49 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration. #50 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office. Of course the heart of our economic problems is the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine, it has almost completely destroyed the value of the U.S. dollar and it has an absolutely nightmarish track record of incompetence. If the Federal Reserve system had never been created, the U.S. economy would be in far better shape. The federal government needs to shut down the Federal Reserve and start issuing currency that is not debt-based. That would be a very significant step toward restoring prosperity to America. During 2011 we made a lot of progress in educating the American people about our economic problems, but we still have a long way to go. Hopefully next year more Americans than ever will wake up, because 2012 is going to represent a huge turning point for this country. |
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![]() Alsof presidenten iets te zeggen hebben.
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Spiegels en geslachtsgemeenschap zijn verfoeilijk omdat ze het tal der mensen vermenigvuldigen. |
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![]() Hij doet dat goed en ik steun hem volledig. 4 more years for total destruction!
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![]() En als er nu een nieuwe president komt lezen we dezelfde zever maar is de naam van de president verandert. Maar te lomp om dat zelf door te hebben.
Reagan was niet goed, Clinton was niet goed, beide Bushen waren niet goed, nu is Obama niet goed en morgen is het .... die niet goed is. ZUCHT
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Spiegels en geslachtsgemeenschap zijn verfoeilijk omdat ze het tal der mensen vermenigvuldigen. |
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![]() Niet enkel daar; ook hier in het EU waar we kankeren op de US of A maar ondertussen wel met de benen open liggen ervoor en alles overnemen of door hun over onze kop laten schijten.
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"Een vooroordeel is moeilijker te splitsen dan een atoom." "Voorstellingsvermogen is belangrijker dan kennis." "Je kunt een probleem niet oplossen met de denkwijze die het heeft veroorzaakt." "If you can"t explain it simply, you don't understand it enough" - Albert Einstein |
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![]() Alsof dat allemaal de fout is van Obama... dat is iets dat al vele jaren aan het broeien was. Amerika is immers een sociaal kerkhof. En vergeet ook niet dat Obama een land in economische recessie geërfd heeft van Bush II!
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Wat de Europeanen ervan denken is minder relevant, ze zijn meestal heel hard voor de republikeinen (die zogezegd allemaal dom zouden zijn) en overdreven mild voor de zwarte Obama, die eigenlijk verre van een 'historische President' is geworden, wat velen hoopten. |
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![]() In het Huis van Afgevaardigden hebben de Republikeinen 242 zetels en de Democraten 193 zetels. Dat houdt in dat de president qua beleid slechts marginaal iets kan doen.
Wel zou hij meer enthousiasme voor zijn plannen moeten zien te genereren. Bvb er op hameren dat de gevangenen uit Guantánamo Bay echt een proces moeten krijgen, waar ieder mens recht op heeft volgens artikelen 9 en 10 van de UVRM. Artikel 9 Niemand zal onderworpen worden aan willekeurige arrestatie, detentie of verbanning. Artikel 10 Een ieder heeft, in volle gelijkheid, recht op een eerlijke en openbare behandeling van zijn zaak door een onafhankelijke en onpartijdige rechterlijke instantie bij het vaststellen van zijn rechten en verplichtingen en bij het bepalen van de gegrondheid van een tegen hem ingestelde strafvervolging. Laatst gewijzigd door Sjaax : 12 januari 2012 om 09:35. |
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![]() Quod erat demonstrandum.
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Met een wereldcrisis daardoor er bovenop. Nu pas is het terug wat aan het herstellen, beetje bij beetje. Nog een geluk dat 100% zeker Obama herverkozen wordt, zoddat het herstel door kan gaan. Want een hernieuwde GOP-ramp op die schaal zou nefast zijn voor de wereld. |
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Clinton of Bush, je was daar allemaal voorstander van, van hun dereguleringen. Deregulering van Speculoosland en van Casino Fatale en van Corpolandia daar was vervolgens Bush nog sterker in en het liep totaal fataal af, zolas te voorzien was. Twee oorlogen kosten een paar biljoen extra schulden De rijkjes werd een enorme vrijstelling van belasting gegeven die nu pas misschien niet zal verlengd worden door Obama op het einde van het jaar, wat ik echter betwijfel Zo is het niet moeilijk om enorme putten te graven en daar het land en de wereld in te storten Laatst gewijzigd door eno2 : 12 januari 2012 om 10:13. |
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Maar dat is het punt niet. U hebt het Europese anti-republikeinen reflex, terwijl de grootste stappen naar de door u verguisde deregulering zijn gezet door een democraat. Maar dat had u al door, vandaar dat antwoord dat er geen was. ![]() |
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Maar een tweede kans voor het verder dereguleren van Speculoosland, Casino Fatale en Corpolandia -Mania krijg je gelukkig niet meer Brace yourself for a second term of Obama ![]() Laatst gewijzigd door eno2 : 12 januari 2012 om 10:22. |
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Carter werd trouwens niet bekeken als slechtste president ooit... er zijn anderen die nog lager op de ranking staan, zoals Buchanan en Harding. In de meeste rankings en polls staat Jimmy Carter in de lage middenhoop (meestal gerangschikt tussen 24 en 34 uit 44 Presidenten. |
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En het duurde tot 2001 tot de Democraten de Senaat heroverden (en weer kwijt raakten in na de verkiezingen van 2002) en tot 2006 eer ze het Huis heroverden (samen met de Senaat). |
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![]() De presidenten zijn gewoon PR-gezichten voor de heersende elite. De presidenten zijn er niet voor het gewone volk, ze zijn er voor de elite , in dienst van de elite, en om de plannen van de elite erdoor te drukken. Het is allemaal een grote show en een groot bedrog.
Dat de mensen er eigenlijk zo makkelijk in trappen.
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![]() Het beste bewijs dat het Congress niet de gewone man vertegenwoordigd is gewoon het aantal miljonairs in het Congress. In het huidige Congress (100 Senatoren en 435 afgevaardigden) is maar liefst 47% miljonair.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...-of-americans/ |
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