News by the Numbers - May 2009

• 1 out of every four dollars in income tax will be needed to pay for Social Security and Medicare by 2020, and that’s not even counting Medicaid which is almost as large a problem as Medicare, according to John C. Goodman, President National Center for Policy Analysis.

• 2 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not only opened Iran’s first nuclear fuel production plant, but also announced two new devices to enrich uranium for a heavy-water reactor, according to the Heritage Foundation.
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• 3 times during presidential debates, Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution.

• 6 national emergency centers will be established for corralling civilians on military installations if a new bill, H.R. 645, introduced by Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, (D-FL). Those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany.

• 10% - According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal mandates for alternative fuel have driven up food costs by 10%. In addition to raising prices in your grocery cart, it will inflate the cost of food stamp and child nutrition programs by up to $900 million this year, according to the Heritage Foundation.

• 17% of Medicare patients who enter a hospital re-enter within 30 days, usually because of a problem related to the initial surgery, with the result that the typical hospital makes money on its mistakes, according to John C. Goodman, NCPA.

• 44.6% - the marginal tax rate small business owners earning over $250,000 which is expected to rise to 62.4%, according to financial and wealth management planner, David John Marotta, www.emarotta.com.

• 56% - Obama’s approval rating which is the 2nd worst for any of the seven presidents who have served in the last 40 years. Only Bill Clinton was less popular at the 100 day mark.

• 66% of small business profits are earned in households making more than $250,000, yet every spending program has been justified with promises that it will be paid by those earning over $250,000, according to financial and wealth management planner, David John Marotta, www.emarotta.com.

• 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens, according to the Los Angeles Times.

• 100 detainees would be held without trial on U.S. soil if the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were closed, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

• 115 scientists from more than a dozen countries, including a Nobel Prize winner, say Obama ‘Simply Incorrect’ on Global Warming. A number of the scientists are current or former reviewers with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with climate change crusader Al Gore — and have since reversed their views on man-made global warming, according to Newsmax.com.

• $800 - $1300 a year - the amount Americans will pay due to the increase in the price of energy from the economic nightmare that cap and trade creates. It will be worse than any potential environmental benefits it has. Remember when Obama said he wouldn’t raise taxes on 95% of Americans? This is a tax that everyone in America will have to pay, according to Derek Clark, GeekPolitics.com.

• 9,000+ gallons of fuel were used by Obama for his Earth Day tour on Air Force One and Marine One.

• 200,000+ - the number of registered voters in Detroit in excess of census estimates of people over the voting age of 18. Federal laws don't allow election officials to purge rolls of these non-existent voters and Democrats have introduced legislation to forbid purging those rolls since illegal voting is a Democrat election strategy.

• 66% of small business profits are earned in households making more than $250,000. These are the folks Obama has promised to sock it to with huge tax increases to pay for every spending program. The marginal tax rate of these small business owners is expected to rise from 44.6% to 62.4%, according to financial planner and wealth management expert David Marotta.

• 2 million+ Americans have lost their jobs since Obama moved into the Oval Office and 908,666 American families have lost their homes to foreclosure, according to Oliver North.

• $18 million - the amount of earmarks (personal kickbacks to buy votes) received by the average member of the House in the $410 billion spending bill approved by Congress. Bonuses at AIG were given to 400 employees with only seven receiving more than $3 million, according to David Marotta, www.emarotta.com.

• 32 million - more males than females under the age of 20 live in China due to Sex-selective abortions linked to China’s “one-child” policy along with a traditional preference for boys, according to CNSNews.com.

• $50 million to $60 million - The trade war caused by President Obama’s omnibus spending bill has already ended pear exports to Mexico, a potential annual loss of $50 million to $60 million for American farmers, according to the Heritage Foundation.

• Over 48 million Americans have served in the military during war and peace since 1776, according to Right Wing Extremist on Twitter. We need to thank them for our Freedom.
  

• $100 million in funding for The Emergency Food and Shelter Program, a nationwide social service program created by Congress in 1983 that helps hungry and homeless people throughout the United States, will be used to provide services to people who are in the country illegally.

• 2.25 million red envelopes symbolizing the empty promise of lives snuffed out in abortion have been received by the White House mail office in a massive campaign that was larger than most White House #mailing movements in the last 35 years. On the backs of the envelopes, senders wrote a message "This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception." The message was composed by a Massachusetts man, Christ Otto, who envisioned in January thousands of red envelopes sent to the White House, a visual expression of moral outrage over the president's position on abortion.

• $1.4 billion - the amount homeland ballistic missile defense will be cut by in the Obama defense budget. We will reduce our ability to project power from the sea by cutting our carrier fleet from 12 to 10 battle groups. We will not modernize ground-combat mobility for the Army and the Marines. Obama’s budget also cuts the production line for the already proven F-22, according to Oliver North.

• $12.1 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments were made by the Internal Revenue Service in 2008, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office. The EITC, essentially a form of welfare, also had one of the government's highest error rates in 2008. "Improper payments," according to the GAO, arise when an ineligible person receives the credit -- either through error or fraud, according to a report from CNSNews.com.

• $999 billion - The present cost of amnesty. That means that if the government were honest about paying for the cost of amnesty, the government would put $999 billion into a dedicated, lockbox account earning a 5% rate of interest, then let that money appreciate over the next 48 years, while drawing down some of it every year to pay current costs, according to The Heritage Foundation.