Average gasoline price per gallon in January, 2009 when Obama took office: $1.85
Average gasoline price per gallon in October, 2012: $3.80
Income tax our family paid for 2008: $3909.00
Income tax our family paid for 2011: $9631.00
Our income went up a little, but almost all of the increase was absorbed by increased taxes. More than all of the increase in income was absorbed by increased taxes and increased prices, especially for food and gasoline.
Add to those personal stats these national statistics, and you will see that Mr. Obama had his chance to “fix the economy”, and he and his party cohorts have only made things much, much worse.
National debt as of January 2009: $10.6 trillion
National debt as of October 2012: $16.2 trillion
Do you have any idea how much a trillion dollars is? I certainly can’t even conceive of that amount of money. Do you suppose that all our politicians are laboring under the same difficulty? They can’t wrap their tiny, finite minds around the difference between a billion and a trillion, so they just keep spending money that we don’t have and can’t pay back once we’ve borrowed it.
U.S. Budget deficit (Deficit: The amount by which the government’s total budget outlays exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year.):
Budget deficit in 2007, under GWB: $161 billion
Budget deficit in 2008 under GWB: $459 billion
Budget deficit in 2009, budget inherited from GWB: $1.4 trillion
Budget deficit in 2012 under BHO: 1.3 trillion
Budget deficit in 2011 under BHO: 1.3 trillion
Budget deficit in 2012 under BHO: $1.33 trillion
How can any responsible adult vote for the continuation of such reckless madness? We have entered Wonderland, and voting for Obama is like voting for the Mad Hatter for President. Maybe Romney is the March Hare and won’t do any better, but surely it makes sense to give him a chance rather than stick with the craziness that we have now.
I’m with you!
Amen. Actually, I have hopes that Romney will do far better than Obama, who will end America as we once knew it.
Ha! sigh and groan
That’s how I feel about the election this year!
I’m with you, too! Although I have a feeling this country has sunk so low, even a conservative president would only slow down the decline (am I depressed or what?).
My daughter and her family have decided they may sell their “nice” home and downsize a great deal in the spring. He makes an excellent salary but between rising cost of food, rising taxes, and the increase in fuel costs (he commutes well over an hour each way to work), they are feeling financial challenges.