President Obama said 'the war in Iraq was successfully over which removed the evil dictator Saddam Husein who for over a decade racked havit on his people and our nation'. (We listened to him and all the Democrats condemn this war since its inception.) I guess he didn't send out his talking points to all his democrat talking heads who continue to say that the war in Iraq was the worst mistake in US history (Ariana Huffington on CNN last Sunday). Obama wants to keep taking more money for people to pay for government projects (except for the military that has been successful). He says we all want a smarter, smaller government.
Who does he think he fooling?
Obama's only budget since he has been President:
Percentages in parenthesis show increase or decrease from the Bush Administration budget of 2009 (also WAY TOO MUCH SPENDING!)
- Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%)
- $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations)
- $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
- $72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
- $52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
- $51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs
- $47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development
- $46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
- $42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
- $26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
- $26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
- $23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
- $18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- $13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
- $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
- $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury
- $12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior
- $10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
- $9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
- $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
- $5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
- $5.0 billion (+100%) – National Infrastructure Bank
- $1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
- $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
- $0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
- $19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies
- $105 billion – Other
| Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey | |||||||||||||
| Original Data Value | |||||||||||||
| Series Id: | LNS14000000 | ||||||||||||
| Seasonally Adjusted | |||||||||||||
| Series title: | (Seas) Unemployment Rate | ||||||||||||
| Labor force status: | Unemployment rate | ||||||||||||
| Type of data: | Percent or rate | ||||||||||||
| Age: | 16 years and over | ||||||||||||
| Years: | 2001 to 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
| 2001 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.7 | |
| 2002 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 6.0 | |
| 2003 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 5.7 | |
| 2004 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | |
| 2005 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | |
| 2006 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | |
| 2007 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | |
| 2008 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 7.3 | |
| 2009 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 2010 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 9.4 | |
| 2011 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 9.1 | ||||||||
I can't believe what I heard tonight. God help us in the next election.
