News by the Numbers: 05/08

• 0 - the number of quarters of negative economic growth, let alone consecutive ones, we have had since the recovery began in President Bush's first year in office. In April, the unemployment rate fell from 5.1% to 5.0 %.
• 0 Fahrenheit - the Earth's average temperature without the greenhouse effect
• $.45 - price per gallon for gas in Saudi Arabia. Gas is 35 cents in Iran, and less than a quarter in Venezuela because Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela harvest enough oil to take care of their people.. America doesn’t.
• 70 - countries, including virtually all of Europe, are now below replacement birth-rate levels, according to the documentary, Demographic Winter
• 95% - of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere
• 143 days - Barack Obama’s actual work experience in the Senate before he believed he was ready to be President of the United States of America. John McCain has 26 years in Congress, and 22 years of military service including 1,966 days as a POW in Hanoi.
• 483 - trees must be planted and grown for 10 years to offset the carbon footprint of two people
• $1.5 million - overdue taxes and associated penalties owed by Al Sharpton and his business entities, according to government records
• $250 million - the amount netted by an illegal kickback scheme involving clients, masterminded by officials in the law firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss. Weiss officials lied in court about their actions, then claimed their illegal activity was an “industry practice,” according to John Boehner, Republican Minority Leader for the House of Representatives. Even more outrageous, Democrats running Congress refuse to hold hearings because trial lawyers are a major source of revenue for their party. Can you say ‘culture of corruption?’
• 10.4-27 billion - barrels of new oil could be produced in ANWR, according to estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s enough oil to replace 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia and 58 years of Iraqi oil. Greenies and liberals prevent America from energy independence, assuring ever higher gas prices at the pump.
• $1.16 billion annually - has been donated to the World Food Program by U.S. since 2001. That’s five times more than the next largest donor, the European Commission. Saudi Arabia, with oil revenues last year of $164 billion, does not even appear on the WFP website donor list for 2008. The most likely reason for this is that zakat, the almsgiving that is obligatory for all Muslims, is generally not to be given to kafirs (infidels or non-Muslims). Since there is nothing preventing this aid from being given to non-Muslims, they don't give it, according to Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.
• $346 billion - the cost to the federal government for 37 million immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal. That’s twice as much as the nation's fiscal deficit, according to ESR Research
• 600 billion - gallons of water and 73 billion kilowatts of electricity were used in 2005 in the U.S.A. because of divorce and the rise in single-person households, according to Robert Knight, Culture & Media Institute