{"id":980,"date":"2011-12-08T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:11:59","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/politics\/all-you-need-to-know-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need to Know About Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the latest numbers:<br \/>\nBush debt increase: 85%<br \/>\nObama debt increase: 41%<br \/>\nBush <strong>increase<\/strong> in unemployment: 98%<br \/>\nObama <strong>decrease<\/strong> in unemployment:\u00a0 8%<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009 the national debt increased from $5,727,776,738,304.64 to $10,626,877,048,913.08. For those that still believe in arithmetic this is an 85% increase in the debt over the Bush administration\u2019s term ((10,626,877,048,913.08 \/ 5,727,776,738,304.64) * 100) = 185% or an 85% increase).<\/p>\n<p>From January 20, 2009 to December 7, 2011 the national debt increased from $10,626,877,048,913.08 to $15,046,397,725,405.16. This is a 35% increase in debt over President Obama\u2019s term ((15,046,397,725,405.16\/ 10,626,877,048,913.08) * 100) = 141% or a 41% increase).<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take my word for it, check it out on the US Treasury Department site at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/NP\/BPDLogin?application=np\">http:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/NP\/BPDLogin?application=np<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the national unemployment rate was 4.7%. When he left office on January 20, 2009 and President Obama took office the national unemployment rate was 9.3%<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/prev_yrs.htm\">http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/prev_yrs.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current unemployment rate as of December 2, 2011 is 8.6%<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\">http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doing the math, the increase during the Bush administration was (9.3 \/ 4.7) * 100 = 198% or a 98% increase in unemployment. For the Obama administration the math is (8.6 \/ 9.3) * 100 = 92% or a 8% decrease in unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the latest numbers: Bush debt increase: 85% Obama debt increase: 41% Bush increase in unemployment: 98% Obama decrease in unemployment:\u00a0 8% See for yourself&#8230; From January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009 the national debt increased from $5,727,776,738,304.64 to $10,626,877,048,913.08. For those that still believe in arithmetic this is an 85% increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}