We were promised Hope and Change. The change is in the chart below.

Gotta laugh to keep from crying at how true this is:

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Here's your change! January 2009 January 2011 % 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

Liberal Journalist Explains How Unions Can Take Over Businesses With Current Laws

How will unionizing American businesses help bring and keep businesses here in America? What good is it if a few union workers make great money and the rest are jobless? Unions and Democrats want union labor and higher taxes on American companies. How will that create jobs here?

Usama bin Laden Was A Porn Freak And A Pot Head

It seems that this is a common occurrence with terrorists. It turns out liberals and terrorist have a lot in common. LOL. This is an open thread.

$4 Gas,Falling House Values and High Unemployment

The Democrats did it their way and this is what we get. We have bailed out the housing market and yet house values are still dropping at an alarming rate. Obama said that he and the Democratic Party would make the housing market better. Now we are out billions of dollars and our house values keep dropping. Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Republicans said the bailout wouldn't work. We said it would just delay the inevitable. It looks like we were right again. The problem is the Obama and Democratic Party way has added dramatically to our deficit.

When Obama put a moratorium on our offshore domestic oil production, we said gas would start to go up. We knew this would happen because the opposite happened when Bush opened up our domestic oil production. With gas at $4 a gallon, it makes me wonder what Obama and the Democratic Party plan on doing about it. It sounds to me like their cure for high gas prices is for you to buy a hybrid car or bike. Is this a common sense fix for our needs? Can people just go out and buy a new car? Where are we going to get the electricity from to power all those cars?

The Obama administration and the Democratic Party have put our country in more debt then all the administrations before them combined. They took money we didn't have to pick winners and losers to fix the economy. Trillions of dollars in debt and we are still at an astounding 9% unemployment with a real unemployment that is unimaginable. We said that the fixes for the economy that the Democratic Party put into action wouldn't work. We said it would just make things worse, not better. Even though the Democrats and Obama have printed and borrowed money like there is no tomorrow, it's done next to nothing to fix the economy. In fact it's done just the opposite. It has made commodities like food, clothing and gas inflate due to the weak value of the dollar. So not only did the actions of the Obama administration not fix any of the problems in the economy, they have indebted us and our children with crushing unsustainable debt and inflation.

Thanks to Obama and the Democratic Party we are still in one of the longest recessions in our history. They have ruined our present and future economies. The poor are getting poorer. The middle class is getting poorer. The next few generations are poor before they get old enough to vote thanks to the Democratic Party and Obama. If this isn't enough to end the Obama admin. and the Democratic Party I don't know what will. As long as things keep getting worse or staying the same I can't imagine the Democratic Party and Obama winning a debate, let alone keeping their seats.

Unemployment Is Still 9%

This is what Obama said 2 years ago. When Obama took office unemployment was at 5.1% and it was the end of the world according to the Democratic Party. Since Obama and the Democratic Party had almost total control of our Senate,House and White House. I ask you what has Obama and the Democratic Party done right? Is the economy better now or worse under Obama?

I know Democrats all still blame Bush and the Republican Party. We told you that what Obama economic policy would do to this country. Nothing has turned out the way Obama said it would.

What are your thoughts on  the economy? How would you fix the economy?

Happy Mothers Day

God bless the moms out there for all they do to make this country great. Our future is in the hands of these mothers. I can't think of anyone group then mothers to fix our future. They have rewarded this country with the love and effort to raise our children. I thank God for the mothers in my life. Take the time to reflect on the role of the mother in the family and in society. They hold the hands of the fathers and the children. They make us who we are. They sacrifice all they can to insure their children have a better future. Don't forget to tell the mothers you see today, "thank you for your service". Today is the one day that all mothers should be served. God bless and have a great day with your loved ones.

Waterboarding Works

It turns out that liberals were wrong once again. Waterboarding works and the proof is in a dead bin Laden. We can debate if it is torture or not. But the left-wing that said waterboarding didn't work are wrong once again.

1980~2000: Latin America Waterboarding and other water-based tortures such as “el submarino” — the submarine — were practiced against prisoners of both sides of the Peruvian Internal conflict. Similar interrogations were practiced in the Argentine Dirty War.

2002~2003: United States Central Intelligence Agency "The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt." As depicted by ABC News, "Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA", November 02, 2007

What is your perspective on the issue of waterboarding not being torture and the fact that it does work?

Do You Believe Obama's Reason For Not Releasing The Usama bin Laden Pictures?

Obama doesn't want to release the Usama bin Laden death pictures because it may inflame the Muslims. This is the same Obama that wanted the pictures of Abu Ghraib released even if it inflamed the Muslims. I just don't get this president. Can anyone help me understand this flip flopping president? He's all over the board on almost everything. I don't even know what he stands for anymore.

Why Can't The White House Get The Usama bin Laden Raid Story Right?

I just don't get why the White House can't get the story streight on the bin Laden raid. It never looks good when we are told numerous conflicting stories on an insodent. It also feeds conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories will always be around an event like this in our history. But if the Obama admin. can't get the story streight it just adds to the conspiracy theory of "Deathers".

Let's look at how the world Muslim community might react to the conflicting stories on how this hero to many Muslims was killed. Do you think from a Muslims perspective, it might inflame more or fewer Muslims around the world?

It makes me wonder who it serves to have so many conflicting stories on this raid? What are your thaughts on this matter?