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Interesting assortment of visitors to The White House. (See 1 below.)
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Last night after the debate ended I e mailed a friend that I thought Romney held his own but missed opportunities that I would have preferred he not let pass. This morning he responded as follows: "
Dear Dick,
I know I would never be able to run for office because I wouldn’t have the patience to stand for the deceitfulness and pure untruthfulness of the President which of course Romney allowed him to get away with. However not being a politician may be yours and my strongest suit. Romney’s handlers, who have been advising him for the last couple of years, have gotten him through the primaries and actually got him through the debates. That is certainly on the plus side so they kind of figured not to take Obama on. Could he have whipped his ass? YES. Could he have put him away? YES. But, like I said, I’m not a politician. I’m just a tired, broken down -------. I am going on a bus tour next Monday through northern Florida along with --- -------- to meet with business people and try to convince them to support Romney and meet with their employees and educate them. I think I explained this to you, but we are now very strong in Ohio, FL, NC, somewhat in VA. Who knows, we may actually help. Keep your fingers crossed."
Another comment regarding last night from a family member and memo reader. (SEE 2 below.)
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A bit over board? You decide. "
Finally a potential crack in the Jewish vote? (See 3 below.)
Early polling results are unreliable because pollsters are more interested in influencing the election than in accuracy. As the poling gets closer to the election the desire to be right determines their modus operandi. Thus, polling results now is far more believable and I believe Romney is gaining traction and will validate what I have said all along - he wins hands down.
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Even the rich may not be able to afford four more years of this! (See 4 below.)
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Early polling results are unreliable because pollsters are more interested in influencing the election than in accuracy. As the poling gets closer to the election the desire to be right determines their modus operandi. Thus, polling results now is far more believable and I believe Romney is gaining traction and will validate what I have said all along - he wins hands down.
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Even the rich may not be able to afford four more years of this! (See 4 below.)
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Dick
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1)A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House
Steve Emerson and John Rossomando
A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.
Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.
The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which have:
- Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and Hizballah;
- Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;
- Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is engaged in a “war against Islam”— a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry out acts of terror;
- Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling campaign.
Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in U.S. history – the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials wereconvicted of funneling money to Hamas.
U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, “The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the association” of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the University of California – Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were exercising their “legitimate right” to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.
Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined “an America that respects and humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values and not on the interests of any foreign lobby.” In 2004, he said that the war on terror had become a “war on Muslims.” Ayloush attended at least two White House meetings.
The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement on July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown, assistant to the White House director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on June 6, 2009.
According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for secret contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that the White House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings with two other senior White House officials.
Louay Safi, formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North America, visited the White House twice – meeting in intimate settings with Paul Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.
Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was captured in an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian, Safi served as executive director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the movement's top front groups in North America.
Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was established by Hamas deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part of the Hamas-support network called the “Palestine Committee.”
Safi has repeatedly expressed understanding for the underlying causes that provoke terrorism: “Terrorism cannot be fought by…ignoring its root causes. The first step…is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger, frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts.” He also called Palestinian terrorists “freedom” fighters.
Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times.
In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America.
Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.
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2)Dick,
I disagree with Pipes and Sowell to some extent. My Opinion. Romney is basically ahead in this election with a need to win Ohio. Hope you saw Ralph Reed on the Sunday Talk show, maybe meet the press or ABC specifically his comments about Ohio.
I think last night Romney had a plan, followed it and not only won the night but possibly won the election..
Pundits focus on their own issues and if they are not pursued their way or not at all they are not happy. When you stop and think about what Romney said to Obama to his face and 50 or 60 million people inside of a few minutes no one has done in four years. You went on an Apology tour through the Mideast tour Egypt, Saudi Arabia skipping over Israel. Saying we dictated to these people, we tortured people. Romney, we did not dictate we helped liberate them.Obama cancelled the missile agreement with Poland and placated Russia on the nukes agreement and reminded the Russian President that he will be much more flexible after he is elected ( on the open mike)
Romney clearly explained his China plan demonstrating his ability and track record for engaging the Democrats while not compromising his principles. Clearing demonstrating to a fractured electorate that there are ways to get things done.
This is a message 70 or 80 percent of Americans want to hear. He believes in America and its future . The glass is half full not half empty. We cannot, should not accept another four years like the last four.
re Obama's factual challenges Romney right Obama wrong. on the Auto Industry
bailout and one other point that skips my mind where Romney was also proved right on his facts. One last thing his explanation about the dangers of trade and tariff wars with China and what his focus would be regarding China valuation of their currency vs. the dollar to keep their costs low.
All this and more will show up in the polls by the end of the week.
For the first time this election is heading into Romney's hands. Gallup seven week rolling average Nationally Obama 47% Romney53%. Yes Ohio is tied but it will change in Romney's favor. Remember Wisconsin - final numbers: Walker 6% over Gallup's predicted vote. Because of turnout and Union voters, voting for Walker.
Sorry for length.
A
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3)How Worried is Obama About the Jewish Vote? Very Worried
By Jonathan Tobin
The overall tone of the foreign policy debate portrayed President Obama’s
insecurity about the race as he swung away at Mitt Romney as if he was the challenger rather than the incumbent. But if there was any particular element of the electorate about which he seemed concerned, it has to be the Jewish vote. President Obama’s all-out effort to portray himself as Israel’s best friend and Iran’s most ardent foe showed just how desperate he is about the possibility that he will lose Jewish votes as a result of spending the first three years of his administration constantly picking fights with the state of Israel and attempting to establish daylight between its positions and those of the United States.
That the president would so emphasize Israel in the debate spoke volumes about Democrat fears about his vulnerability. Even more interestingly, he found himself staking out a position on Iran’s nuclear program that had to alarm those advocating a compromise on the issue as well as his European negotiating partners in the P5+1 process. The president didn’t endorse Israel’s calls for “red lines” about Iran’s nuclear capability as did Romney, but he did say that the only solution to the standoff involved a stand that would make the sort of compromise that realists and foreign policy establishment types approve impossible:
And we hope that their leadership takes the right decision, but the deal we’ll accept is they end their nuclear program. It’s very straightforward.
The deal that the compromisers want and which seems to be in the cards if the direct talks between the U.S. and Iran that the New York Times reported over the weekend would commence after the elections would involve an agreement that would leave the Iranian nuclear program in place but have their enriched fuel shipped abroad.
Critics rightly point out that even if the Iranians went along with this, it would mean a situation that would be a standing invitation for Tehran to cheat its way to a nuclear weapon. Their model would follow the way North Korea hoodwinked the Clinton and Bush administrations when it was assumed that the deals they signed with Pyongyang precluded that rogue nation going nuclear.
But the president has closed off that option. He is now committed to a position that is incompatible with Iran having any sort of nuclear program. His statement also makes the Iran talks that some senior officials in his administration thought were a done deal impossible. If the president is to keep his vow to prevent Iran from going nuclear, it is clear that he is now more or less forced to accept Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s position on “red lines,” since the terms of the negotiations that the Europeans have pushed in the P5+1 talks have now been ruled unacceptable.
While many in the audience focused on his bragging about a 2008 visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum (as if Romney hadn’t been there himself on his various tours of the country) and to the town of Sderot, the real news is the way the president has now ruled out any compromise on Iran.
It isn’t clear whether these pledges will erase the memory of his ongoing fights with Netanyahu over borders, settlements and Jerusalem in the minds of Jewish voters. Romney’s passionate support of Israel and his pointed reminder that the world noted that the president avoided Israel when he visited the Middle East will likely win the GOP more Jewish votes than it has won in a generation. But it’s a given that Iran was sent a signal in Boca Raton that a second term sellout of Israel on the nuclear issue was just made a lot more difficult.
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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 7,555 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
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Here is our change!
Jan '09
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Today
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% Chg
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Source
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Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
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$1.83
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$3.85
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84%
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1
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Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
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$43.48
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$99.02
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127.7%
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2
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Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
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$38.74
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$91.38
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135.9%
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2
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Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
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$3.56
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$6.33
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78.1%
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2
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Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
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$9.66
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$13..75
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42.3%
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2
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Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob
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$13.37
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$35.39
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164.7%
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2
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Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
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7.6%
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9.4%
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23.7%
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3
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Unemployment rate, blacks
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12.6%
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15.8%
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25.4%
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3
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Number of unemployed
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11,616,000
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14,485,000
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24.7%
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3
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Number of fed. Employees
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2,779,000
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2,840,000
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2.2%
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3
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Real median household income
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$50,112
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$49,777
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-0.7%
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4
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Number of food stamp recipients
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31,983,716
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43,200,878
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35.1%
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5
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Number of unemployment benefit recipients
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7,526,598
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9,193,838
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22.2%
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6
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Number of long-term unemployed
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2,600,000
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6,400,000
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146.2%
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3
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Poverty rate, individuals
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13.2%
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14.3%
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8.3%
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4
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People in poverty in U.S.
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39,800,000
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43,600,000
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9.5%
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4
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U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
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5
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9
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n/a
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10
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Present Situation Index
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29.9
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23.5
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-21.4%
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11
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Failed banks
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140
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164
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17.1%
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12
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U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
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89.76
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82.03
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-8.6%
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2
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U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions
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1,575.1
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1,865.7
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18.4%
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13
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U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions
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8,310.9
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8,852.3
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6.5%
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13
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National debt, in trillions
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$10.627
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$16.052
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32.2%
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14
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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 7,555 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
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