Open Thread: Obama's First 1000 Days
October 17, 2011 will be President Obama's 1000th day in office. At the beginning of his term in office, in a February 1, 2009 interview with Matt Lauer, Obama said "If I don’t have this [economy fixed] in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition."
At 1000 days in, do you think Obama will see reelection? Check out a comprehensive report card of his first 1000 days after the break and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
DEBT: Total Public Debt Outstanding has increased by $4.2 trillion [source: Treasury Dept]
MORE DEBT: America accumulated as much debt over the past 1,000 days as it had in the country’s first 79,135 days (July 4, 1776 through March 3, 1993) [source: Treasury Dept]
DEBT PER DAY: America’s debt has increased by about an average of $4.2 billion per day [source: Treasury Dept]
INTEREST ON U.S. DEBT: $1.2 trillion has been spent servicing U.S. debt—that by itself would be the world’s 15th largest economy [source: Treasury Dept]
JOBS: 2.22 million jobs lost [source: BLS]
POVERTY: Nearly 3 million more Americans in poverty—poverty rate has gone from 13.2% to 15.1% [source: Census]
FOOD STAMPS: 12 million more Americans living off of food stamps [source: Dept of Agriculture // Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]
GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Spent more than $9.6 trillion – 60% more than the federal government has taken in [source: OMB and CBO]
MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Under Obama, the govt has spent an average of $6.6 million every minute and $111,111 every second [source: OMB and CBO]
CHINA: Owns $1.17 trillion of our debt (as of July) – a 58% increase from January 2009 [source: Treasury Dept]
GOVERNMENT JOBS: Excluding the U.S. Post Office, Federal Government has added 140,000 jobs [source: BLS]
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has averaged 9.4% under Obama [source: BLS]
MORE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has been at or above 9% for 840 of the 1000 days [source: BLS]
UNDEREMPLOYED: Nearly 5 million more Americans are underemployed [source: BLS]
REGULATIONS – NEW RULES: 7,076 new final regulatory rules issued [source: Federal Register]
REGULATIONS – FEDERAL REGISTER: 45,696 pages of new regulatory rules were added to the Federal Register [source: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register, various years]
AVERAGE WEEKS UNEMPLOYED: Unemployed out of work for an average of 40.5 weeks – that’s more than double since Jan 2009 [source: BLS]
JOB APPROVAL RATING: Dropped nearly 30 percentage points [source: Gallup Tracking]
SPEECHES AND PUBLIC REMARKS: Roughly 806 speeches/public remarks made – once every 1.24 days [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/]
SPEECHES --- JOBS: Has said the word “jobs” 4,718 times in 591 speeches [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/]
SPEECHES -- ECONOMY: Has said the word “economy” 4,541 times in 605 speeches [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/]
CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE: Has decreased by 168,000 [source: BLS]
MANUFACTURING: 818,000 manufacturing jobs lost --- a -6.5% drop since Jan. 2009 [source: BLS]
BANK FAILURES: 371 Banks have failed [source: FDIC]
STATES: 37 States have higher unemployment rates [source: BLS]
GOLF: 82 rounds of golf --- average of one round every 12 days [source: Mark Knoller, CBS –Fox News Tracking]
REPOSSESSIONS: More than 2.4 million homes have been repossessed for failure to pay their mortgage [source: RealtyTrac]
BANKRUPTCIES: Some 4 million total (business and non-business) bankruptcies [source: American Bankruptcy Institute]
GAS PRICES: Up more than 80% and has been over $3/gallon every day in 2011 [source: AAA/OPIS]
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Almost $380 billion spent by federal government on unemployment benefits [source: Treasury Dept and CBO]
ECONOMIC TEAM: 7 key members of Obama’s Economic team have resigned [Summers, Romer, Bernstein, Orszag, Goolsbee Volker and Rouse] [source: News Reports/Tracking]
HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS: Health insurance premiums (family coverage) up 9% this year and 12.7% from 2009 [source: Kaiser Family Foundation]
MEDIAN INCOME: Real median household income in the U.S. in 2010 was $49,445, a -2.3% decline from 2009 [source: Census Dept]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Spent more than $26 billion on the EPA – FY2011’s spending will be about 40% more than FY2009 [source: Treasury and OMB]
What are your thoughts?
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...it's Bush's fault
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:39am.
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
→ Barry's Milleni-umm umm umm
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:44am.
I think it should be noted America overlooked candidate Obama's severe speech impediment in electing him.
If an election was held a week from today
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:50am.
Against any republican. He would lose. The only thing that can save him is if the economy does a complete turnaround in 2012
Shawn, I think it's too late...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:58am.
...the curtain has been pulled back and the wizard of Ob has been exposed as the fraud he is.
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
And...
Submitted by ontheright on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:24am.
...his media projected "halo" has slipped and become irreparably tarnished - even in the eyes of his most ardent supporters - the willfully ignorant or the useful racist idiots and the pre-programmed "hand-out" class; failed govt. schools have done exactly what the dimwitcrats have designed, implemented and wanted for our school children dating back many decades..
It's past time to clean up this current usurper-in-chief's mess and to begin the long and painful process of reversing the debilitating damage caused by decades of communist/progressive/socialist/dimwitcrats policies - hopefully enough of our fellow sleeping class citizens (read: sheeple) have opened their eyes and we're not too late to save the Republic.
You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me! (Kurt Russell ~ Wyatt Earp)
i do like
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:34am.
your tag line. Where's ol' Wyatt now that we need him?
Has to be...
Submitted by ontheright on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:41am.
...one of my favorite movie lines of all time.
And yes, where is Marshal Earp when we need him? We've got to find another Wyatt Earp if we truly want to "drain the swamp"...
The Earps were just as
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 2:11pm.
The Earps were just as crooked as the Clantons and the McLaury brothers. They just wore badges. Bill Tillman or Bat Masterson would be better to drain the swamp. By the way one of my hobbies is studying the western period from about the 1850s to the 1990s. The movies and the dime novels made the Earps out to be great heroes. Believe me they were anything but. Virgil was the sherriff of Tombstone, Wyatt was a sometime deputy that ran the faro in the Oriental Saloon. The gunfight at the OK Corral only lasted 30 seconds. It actually occured about 5 doors down from the corral on Fremont Street. Lot of people don't know that Doc Holiday was a dentist from Georgia. His forte was gamlbing not gunfighting.
As the libs are picking the
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:46am.
As the libs are picking the GOP candidate again (Romney), let's do them a favor and pick a new candidate for them!
I'll start: Zell Miller
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
What is that site??? LGBTQ?
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:53pm.
What is that site??? LGBTQ?
not sure...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:19pm.
...just looked for one with the Wiz pic.
I'll be more discerning next time.
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
I guess I look at all sites
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:29pm.
I guess I look at all sites with a critical eye and when you posted this one, I was confused. It is a site by a LGBTQ priest. Carry on my fiend.
He did a lot...
Submitted by SouthJersey1953 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:55am.
I can't believe he was able to do SO MUCH damage to our country in only 1000 days...
No one can say we weren't warned.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:04am.
He said he was going to "fundamentally transform" the country.
you are correct
Submitted by SouthJersey1953 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:32am.
we were warned
but obama
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:36am.
is a lying corrupt politician. nobody believes lying corrupt politicians.
Yep.........and for once in
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 2:12pm.
Yep.........and for once in his pathetic life, he was being honest!!! And the MSM and the fools and the ignorant voters and the guilty whites and the leeches and the racists ALL helped to elect him.................and a LOT of them are now wondering what the hell happened!!!
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Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 3:11pm.
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Obama won't be the one who
Submitted by celator on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:48am.
Obama won't be the one who decides his re-election campaign,. It will be his many lefty handlers, the radical financial supporters, the leftist agitators who write his script, those who have carrying him on their shoulders all his life, the secretive backroom boys who will decide whether he has advanced the Revolution far enough. Obama has always been a puppet of the radical left. They decide whether he runs again or not. He is not, and never has been, his own man.
Not his own man
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:01am.
Closest thing to being a man is what he is, a man-CHILD.
Good grief, the petulance this manchild has at times......many times.....
-Jon
CNN outs Da Boy Wonder!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:05am.
John King must not like his job at CNN. He just proved that Soetoro knew about Fast and Furious before Holder knew, who according to him knew about it a "few weeks ago" with a video.
Check it out: Soetoro talked about F&F long before Holder "knew" about it
I hope Issa is paying attention.
-Jon
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Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:39am.
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I am afriad
Submitted by syvyn11 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:42am.
That we are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. With all this infighting about Romney, about Cain's 999, about all the freaking purity tests. SICK OF IT!
But that's part of the primary process. But once we pick our nominee, WE NEED TO PUT ALL THAT CRAP ON THE SHELF AND BACK HIM to the hilt.
people are telling me that Romney will be bad, but I tell them that Obama will destroy the country if given 4 more years.
REMEMBER WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS!
TOW OBAMA
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:05pm.
Obama is supposed to visit the Tar Heel state next week. One stop maybe in Hickory. Does he not know that the area around Hickory is the most conservative in the state? Hickory area has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. This area was hard hit by the loss of the furniture and textile industry. i just don't believe there will be a warm welcome there.
The state GOP has offered to tow Obama's bus back to DC at not cost to him
Other than Newbusters, some
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:08pm.
Other than Newbusters, some conservative blogs and maybe FNC, I wonder how many will bring up Obama's quote: "If I don’t have this [economy fixed] in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition."
Seems like a thousand years
Submitted by deadeyedan on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 2:16pm.
For all the warnings that he would be this bad prior to his election, the electorate proved that it wants the more energetic, forceful candidate.
Bland doesn't work (witness Clinton versus Bush I and Dole). The republicans need to learn that lesson enough to avoid putting up another snooze job like McCain - so don't nominate Romney!
Newt is the one who appears to be the most self-assured, unafraid and knowlegeable, therefore very forceful and convincing.
LIBERALISM - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists
It's time to remove the Kenyan Muslim commie bastard
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 2:17pm.
It's time to remove the Kenyan Muslim commie bastard.
Anyone who doesn’t believe our country is in danger as is our freedom, need only listen to the words of liberals such as Obama, Soros, Van Jones, Trumka and others like them. They are the criminal element that now run this country and we can no longer stand by and allow this to go on. We need to take control now or plan on living as prisoners in our own country.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I saw this quote posted at
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 3:12pm.
I saw this quote posted at Boortz today by William Beotcker. It seems appropriate.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Obama has pretty much been as
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 3:47pm.
Obama has pretty much been as bad as I feared, thought there have been a few things I didn't expect.
Aside from that, I did have some hope in pre-Tea Party early 2009 that he wouldn't be as bad as I feared. I hoped he would become a little more pragmatic like Clinton and let the agenda slide a bit, but this guy governed, I mean rules, exactly like I feared. I knew it was some irrational hope, but at the time what else could I do?
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Agree
Submitted by GW on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:59am.
I actually thought Obama would be WORSE than he has been. For example, I had my doubts about NB being allowed to continue to exist. I thought it believable that Israel and Taiwan would have been history by now, too.
Breitbart's Email dump for OWStreet
Submitted by kata on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 6:17pm.
3900 email document dump from infiltration of OWS.
All I can say is... wow.
Hey NewsBusters Members! RED ALERT
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:09pm.
One of our own, MOTUS (Mirror of The United States)....has been picked up by the UK Daily Mail, for a blog she wrote a few days ago, which featured our very own Bob Keyser's best work yet!!! (Last photo on both sites).
Congrats to MOTUS and Bob Keyser!
Now go to the UK Daily Mail and set their liberals straight, okay?
WOOOOO HOOOOOO!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Keyser
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:29pm.
OMO! I'm still laughing at the sheep. Keyser's a genius.
I know, CA
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:41pm.
I think the sheep was BK's best work, evah!
"I itch all the time!"
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Congrats to both MOTUS and bk
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:39pm.
LOL - Shees, I hope bk doesn't get the big head now. :-^)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Thank you BK
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:48pm.
And thank you too Blonde.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Congrats to both!
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:52pm.
And loved the sheep. Describes the iStink OWS hippies most accurately.
Bk is in the UK*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:55pm.
Wow! Good work Blonde and to the BigK!!!
BAAAA Humbug!
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:33pm.
So Keyser gets international recognition. Big deal.
Oh, okay. I'll (sheepishly) admit...it was pretty good.
Congrats, Bob.
Jer
Now let's be realistic,
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:42pm.
the Daily Mail picked up a blog from MOTUS, and she happened to have a picture I did in the blog; they didn't pick it up because of my photoshop. But thank you all for the kind words (you too Jer, you've always been kind to me about the art). I'm humbled.
And on that note: I am the 1%. Finally, some truth.
Give it up, BK!
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:57pm.
You are now an international supa-stah!
It is what it is, fella.
:)
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Don't be so humble!
Submitted by MOTUS on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:31pm.
Ewe ARE a Big Deal on the International Intertubes now!
Even if he IS a sick man who
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:46pm.
Even if he IS a sick man who needs help.....................
Whoa, hello MOTUS*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:48am.
Welcome to NB. Love your blog....LOL Consider me just another MOL
Great job BK
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:47am.
That whole Black thing was funny, great play on words. Did you happen to read the comments after the article? WOW. On a different note i punished myself today by visiting the HuffPo and Reddit and i cant get that filth out of my head. Lauding all over the OWS peeps and its sickens me. I feel like i need a shower.
I'm tired of this $*&!
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:25pm.
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-tax-crusader-questions-cains-999-plan-0038411...
"I applaud (Cain's) idea of having radically lower rates," Norquist said in an interview with Reuters Insider. "However, he creates three different taxes. Every one could rise in the future. That's my concern."
Norquist is completely disingenuous and knows better. "CREATES" three different taxes?
Personal Income Tax...Corporate Income Tax...National Sales Tax
Two of those already exist and he knows it. I'm tired of the crap.
Santorum did the same thing in the debate, asking the audience "who wants a 9% national sale tax?" OF COURSE no one raise their hand. I wouldn't either on that question. The question can only be "who wants the package?"
Eric Cantor came to my workplace about 3 years ago. Amongst an audience of about 200, I asked him his take on the Fair Tax. Of course, his answer was useless and showed he wasn't a supporter, only saying "it would create a 23% national sales tax," and of course I heard mumbles of discontent in the room. Completely disingenous to say only that and not mention anything else.