Saturday, January 10, 2009

YouTube weekend

Heck of a job Bushie.

These numbers are a few days old and get worse with every passing day.

From NBC: What the United States looked like when Bush was entering office and what it looks like now as he's leaving. The "Then" is the best-available figure as Bush was taking office in 2001. The "Now" is the most recent figure


UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)

Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)

Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION

Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)

Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)


CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)

Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)

Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)


FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY

Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)

Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)


AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE

Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)

Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. BUDGETT

Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)

Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)



Metallica - King Nothing






Black Sabbath-War Pigs





We still have 10 days left until the End of Days.

The Day After (Attack Segment)



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

lawdy dunt chez worry nun, weez gonna fix ebrery ting and dem crackis is gonna pay fer it all. weez gonna make bigger gubment as soon as i gits dem new shinny big chrome wheelz on da limo yt gunna nows we're a kummin

bho

Tony Thomas said...

And the stupidity and ignorance of some people never ceases to amaze me. Bravo. Lord can tell you probably voted for Bush twice.

Big Dan said...

War Pigs song is timeless.

Big Dan said...

"We still have 10 days left until the End of Days."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you find out yet that the "War on Terror" is a sham? You will.

Hermann Goering's Quote
On War And The People

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."

--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

If you keep reading and learning, and not from corporate media, you will come to the only conclusion you can come to. I already know.

Big Dan said...

Start researching David Rockefeller.

Jacq said...

What an fantastic post, Gort. Amazing. I fit into some of those statistics. Job loss is a bitch, especially when after two years, you still can't recover from it because your country's economy is shit. And to think, I was doing rather well prior. I suppose I can recover. EVENTUALLY.