Reproduzco íntegramente este email que me ha llegado, en inglés, sobre los milagros de Obama desde que lleva en el poder.
El email comienza con algo así como:
«Se nos prometió Esperanza y Cambio. Olvidaté de la Esperanza…
Después de dos años de Obama… ¡Aquí está vuestro cambio!«
Algunos números impactantes que da el email son:
– Crecimiento del número de parados de larga duración (desde que fue elegido presidente): 146.2 %
– Crecimiento del precio del crudo (el West TX Inter.): 135.9 %
– Crecimiento del precio de la caña de azúcar: 164.7 %
– Crecimiento del precio del maíz: 78.1 %
– Crecimiento del precio de la soja: 42.3 %
– Crecimiento de la deuda nacional americana: 32.2 %
We were promised Hope and Change. Forget about hope….
After two years of Obama …Here’s your change!
| January 2009 | TODAY |
% chg
|
Source
|
|
| Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. | $1.83 | $3.44 |
84%
|
1 |
| Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) | $43..48 | $99..02 |
127.7%
|
2 |
| Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) | $38..74 | $91..38 |
135.9%
|
2 |
| Gold: London (per troy oz.) | $853.25 | $1,369.50 |
60.5%
|
2 |
| Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL | $3.56 | $6.33 |
78.1%
|
2 |
| Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL | $9.66 | $13..75 |
42.3%
|
2 |
| Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob | $13..37 | $35..39 |
164.7%
|
2 |
| Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall | 7.6% | 9.4% |
23.7%
|
3 |
| Unemployment rate, blacks | 12.6% | 15.8% |
25.4%
|
3 |
| Number of unemployed | 11,616,000 | 14,485,000 |
24.7%
|
3 |
| Number of fed. Employees | 2,779,000 | 2,840,000 |
2.2%
|
3 |
| Real median household income | $50,112 | $49,777 |
-0.7%
|
4 |
| Number of food stamp recipients | 31,983,716 | 43,200,878 |
35.1%
|
5 |
| Number of unemployment benefit recipients | 7,526,598 | 9,193,838 |
22.2%
|
6 |
| Number of long-term unemployed | 2,600,000 | 6,400,000 |
146.2%
|
3 |
| Poverty rate, individuals | 13.2% | 14.3% |
8.3%
|
4 |
| People in poverty in U.S. | 39,800,000 | 43,600,000 |
9.5%
|
4 |
| U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings | 5 | 9 |
n/a
|
10 |
| Present Situation Index | 29.9 | 23.5 |
-21.4%
|
11 |
| Failed banks | 140 | 164 |
17.1%
|
12 |
| U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate | 89.76 | 82.03 |
-8.6%
|
2 |
| U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions | 1,575.1 | 1,865.7 |
18.4%
|
13 |
| U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions | 8,310.9 | 8,852.3 |
6.5%
|
13 |
| National debt, in trillions | $10..627 | $14..052 |
32.2%
|
14 |
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation’s history. Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane. 27 times faster, it would be doing 1,755 MPH!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
Un abrazo.
Mr D.





