Hope and Change under Obama-- by the numbers

$3.59 - When Barack Obama entered the White House, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is$3.59.

$4155 - The average American household spent a staggering $4,155 on gasoline during 2011.

23 - According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities permanently shut down in the United States every single day during 2010.

30 - Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.

32 - The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.

40 - The official U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row.

53 - Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.

627 - In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel. The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.

$4300 - The amount by which real median household income has declined since Barack Obama entered the White House.

$328,404 - Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars. That comes to$328,404 for each and every household in the United States.

$2,000,000 - At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.

46,405,204 - The number of Americans currently on food stamps. When Barack Obama first entered the White House there were only 32 million Americans on food stamps.

88,000,000 - Today there are more than 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.

100,000,000 - Overall, there are more than 100 million working age Americans that do not currently have jobs.

$1,170,000,000,000 - China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt. Yet the U.S. government continues to send them millions of dollars in foreign aid every year.

 

Obama can't run on his record. The racist angle (aka race card) is all he's got.