Friday, October 7, 2011

Obama by the numbers

7.6 percent: Unemployment rate in January 2009 (BLS)

9.1 percent: Unemployment rate today (BLS)

10.4 percent: Georgia unemployment rate January 2009 (AJC)

10.2 percent: Georgia unemployment rate today (Ga. Dept. of Labor)

14-20 percent: Percentage that Obama claimed health insurance premiums would be reduced by Obamacare (CBS News)

9 percent: Percentage that health insurance premiums increased in 2011 (PBS)

$666 billion: Cost of the stimulus law (Weekly Standard)

2.4 million: Number of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus according to the Council of Economic Advisors (Weekly Standard)

$278,000: Cost per stimulus job “created or saved” (Weekly Standard)

$535 million: Amount of federal loan guarantees lost in the bankruptcy of Solyndra

$10 billion: Total amount of federal loan guarantees to “green” companies (IBD)

283: Number of “green” jobs created (IBD)

$23 million: Cost in federal loans per “green” job created (IBD)

10 percent: Federal deficit as a percentage of GDP in 2009 (USgovernmentspending.com)

11 percent: Estimated federal deficit as a percentage of GDP in 2011 (USgovernmentspending.com)

$10.632 trillion: Federal debt in January 2009 (Treasurydirect.gov)

$14.856 trillion: Federal debt today (Treasurydirect.gov)

84 percent: Federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 2009 (USgovernmentspending.com)

102 percent: Federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 2011 (USgovernmentspending.com)

2.8 percent: U.S. economic growth rate in 2010 (Indexmundi.com)

1.3 percent: U.S. economic growth rate in second quarter 2011 (Tradingeconomics.com)

Over 2,500: Estimated number of guns that the BATFE allowed to be smuggled to Mexico under Operation Fast and Furious (CBS News)

More than200: Number of Mexicans killed by guns connected to Fast and Furious (Townhall.com)

1: Number of Border Patrol agents murdered by guns connected to Fast and Furious

0: Diplomatic successes in which Iran agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons

65 percent: President Obama’s approval rating in January 2009 (Rasmussen)

42 percent: President Obama’s approval rating today (Rasmussen)

23: Number of senate seats held by Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents that are up for election in 2012

4: Number of seats needed by Republicans to take control of the Senate

1: Terms that President Obama is likely to serve

Read this article on Examiner.com:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-atlanta/obama-by-the-numbers

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