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The National Debt Clock
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What does a trillion dollars look like?
The image above represents bales of $100 bills totaling one trillion dollars stacked next to a full-sized 18 wheeler.  That truck looks very small next to all that money!

Spending at $1 a second, it would take you 31,710 years to spend $1 trillion.----



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The Cost of Liberal Environmental Policy as Measured by the Price of Gas:
Price of Gas in Los Angeles (3/12/12):
.....$4.35

Price of Gas in Denver (3/12/12):
.....$3.36

Difference:  .....$.99 
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Obama Scorecard

Comparing Numbers from 1/09 to 6/12 January, 2009 June, 2012 % Change Grade
 Dow-Jones Industrial Average:  8,077 12,119 50% A
 Consumer Price Index:  210.2 229.8 9.30% C
 Dollar to Yen Exchange: 89.9 78.12 -12% C
 Average Worker Health Insurance Policy
 $3354 $4129 23% F
 Total Nonfarm Employment:  133.6 million 131.5 million -1.60% F
 Dollar to Euro Exchange: 0.75 0.8 6.70% B
 Food Stamp Recipients:  31.9 million 46.2 million 36.70% F
 Civilian Federal Employees:  2,257,600 2,197,300 -2.70% C+
 Per Capita Disposable Income*:   $32,823 $32,613 -0.01% C-
 US Trade Deficit:  $804 billion $807 billion 0.40% C+
 Median Home Price:  $172,500 $182,600 5.80% B
 Unemployment:  7.80% 8.20% 5.10% F
 Deficit:  $480 billion $1.27 trillion 165% F
 Federal Debt:  $10.5 trillion $15.7 trillion 49.50% F
 Price of Regular Gas:  $1.79 $3.70 106.70% F
 Federal Spending:  $3.1 trillion $3.6 trillion 16.10% C
 Poverty Rate:  14.30%  15.1%  (avr. for 2010)* 5.60% D
 GDP:  $14.64 trillion $15.46 trillion 5.87% C-
 Bond Rating:   AAA  AA+ (S & P) Downgrade D
 Avr. Price of Residential Electricity:  9.9¢ kwh 11.95¢ kwh 20.70% C-
 Price of Gold:  $895.30 $1,623 81.30% F
 Net Worth of Median American Family:  $126,400 (10/1/07) $77,300 (Oct. 1,2010)* -38.80% F
 The Index of Economic Freedom 80.6 76.3 -5.30% D
OVERALL WEIGHTED GRADE D-
*latest stats available

 

You've Come a Long Way Baby.  The Evolution of American Womanhood:
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What conclusions can you draw from these two photos of two sororities separated by nearly three-quarters of a century?
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Total expenditures on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $1,304,223,655,241 (2/21/12)
Total deficits accrued from 2001 to 2/21/12:
        Debt on 9/30/2002:                    $6,228,235,965,597
        Debt on 2/21/12:                      $15,374,902,387,945
        Debt accrued:                              $9,146,666,422,348
        Maximum % of debt from war expenditures:     14.3%

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 √STAT of the Day.
About 10 percent of the U.S. population accounted for nearly two-thirds of all health care costs in 2008, according to the latest "News and Numbers" from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The average annual cost for each of these individuals totaled almost $24,000, which includes costs covered by insurance and funds paid out of pocket. 
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