Open Thread: Obama's First 1000 Days

October 14th, 2011 9:35 AM

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.

As compiled by FOX Nation:

DEBT: Total Public Debt Outstanding has increased by $4.2 trillion

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)

DEBT PER DAY: America’s debt has increased by about an average of $4.2 billion per day

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

JOBS: 2.22 million jobs lost

POVERTY: Nearly 3 million more Americans in poverty—poverty rate has gone from 13.2% to 15.1%

FOOD STAMPS: 12 million more Americans living off of food stamps

GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Spent more than $9.6 trillion – 60% more than the federal government has taken in

MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Under Obama, the govt has spent an average of $6.6 million every minute and $111,111 every second

CHINA: Owns $1.17 trillion of our debt (as of July) – a 58% increase from January 2009

GOVERNMENT JOBS: Excluding the U.S. Post Office, Federal Government has added 140,000 jobs

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has averaged 9.4% under Obama

MORE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has been at or above 9% for 840 of the 1000 days

UNDEREMPLOYED: Nearly 5 million more Americans are underemployed

REGULATIONS – NEW RULES: 7,076 new final regulatory rules issued

REGULATIONS – FEDERAL REGISTER: 45,696 pages of new regulatory rules were added to the Federal Register

AVERAGE WEEKS UNEMPLOYED: Unemployed out of work for an average of 40.5 weeks – that’s more than double since Jan 2009

JOB APPROVAL RATING: Dropped nearly 30 percentage points

SPEECHES AND PUBLIC REMARKS: Roughly 806 speeches/public remarks made – once every 1.24 days

SPEECHES --- JOBS: Has said the word “jobs” 4,718 times in 591 speeches

SPEECHES -- ECONOMY: Has said the word “economy” 4,541 times in 605 speeches

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE: Has decreased by 168,000

MANUFACTURING: 818,000 manufacturing jobs lost --- a -6.5% drop since Jan. 2009

BANK FAILURES: 371 Banks have failed

STATES: 37 States have higher unemployment rates

GOLF: 82 rounds of golf --- average of one round every 12 days

REPOSSESSIONS: More than 2.4 million homes have been repossessed for failure to pay their mortgage

BANKRUPTCIES: Some 4 million total (business and non-business) bankruptcies

GAS PRICES: Up more than 80% and has been over $3/gallon every day in 2011

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Almost $380 billion spent by federal government on unemployment benefits

ECONOMIC TEAM: 7 key members of Obama’s Economic team have resigned [Summers, Romer, Bernstein, Orszag, Goolsbee Volker and Rouse]

HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS: Health insurance premiums (family coverage) up 9% this year and 12.7% from 2009

MEDIAN INCOME: Real median household income in the U.S. in 2010 was $49,445, a -2.3% decline from 2009

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Spent more than $26 billion on the EPA – FY2011’s spending will be about 40% more than FY2009

What are your thoughts?