Presidents usually want a Healthy and Prosperous America. Does OBAMA?

When Barack Obama entered the White House, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is$3.59.
- It is hard to believe, but today the poverty rate for children living in the United States is a whopping 22 percent.
- According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities permanently shut down in the United States every single day during 2010.
- Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.
The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
- U.S. housing prices are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble.
- The official U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row.
- According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
- Shockingly, at this point 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
- Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives benefits from the government.
- Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.
- According to a recent Gallup poll, only 60 percent of all Americans say that they have enough money to live comfortably.
- At this point the Federal Reserve is essentially monetizing much of the U.S. national debt. For example, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.
- One recent survey found that 63 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. economic model is broken.
- Today, 71 percent of all small business owners believe that the U.S. economy is still in a recession.
- Americans buy 80 percent of the pain pills sold on the entire globe each year.
- Credit card debt among Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket has risen by 81 percent since 1989.
- 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.
- According to one survey, 86 percent of Americans workers in their sixties say that they will continue working past their 65th birthday.
- In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
- The United States now ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality.
- The middle class continues to shrink - 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.