The ACTUAL State of the Union. Do you know that the number of people on food stamps in the US today exceeds the entire population of Spain? $17.4 Trillion: The Current National Debt After Five Years of State of The Union promises to tackle the problem. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/24/14) $6.6 Trillion: Added to the National Debt despite Obama’s declaration in his 2009 address to Congress that he didn’t want to leave “A Mountain of Debt.” (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/24/14; President Barack Obama, Remarks by the President in the State of the Union Address , Washington, D.C., 1/27/10) $4 Trillion: The amount of debt that Obama once called “Irresponsible” and “Unpatriotic.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks at a Campaign Event, Fargo, ND, 7/3/08) $1.8 Trillion: CostoOf ObamaCare’s coverage provisions from 2014 to 2023. (CBO, 7/30/13) $1 Trillion: The total Student Debt held by Americans. (Josh Mitchell, “Student-Loan Debt Slows Recovery,” The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics, 12/30/13) $819.3 Billion: Total taxes in ObamaCare. (CBO, 3/12;JCT, 6/15/12; CBO, 5/14/13; CBO, 7/30/13) $494 Billion: Amount of Regulatory Burden since Obama took office. (American Action Forum, 1/8/14) $174 Billion: Federal Budget Deficit for the first three months of FY2014. (U.S. Treasury Department, accessed 1/17/14) $32.6 Billion: The increased cost to pay interest on U.S. Debt since 2009. (U.S. Treasury Department, accessed 1/17/14) 47. 6 Million: Americans receiving Food Stamps in 2013. (Department Of Agriculture, accessed 1/24/14) 46.5 Million: Americans living in poverty – a record number – despite Obama calling income inequality “The Defining Issue of Our Time” in his 2012 State of the Union Address. (U.S. Census Bureau, accessed 1/24/13) 19.4 Million: The number of Americans that have joined the Food Stamp program since Obama took office. (Department of Agriculture, 1/24/14) 10.4 Million: The number of People unemployed at the end of Obama’s fifth year as President. (BLS, 1/24/14) 7.8 Million: The number of people working part-time that would like to work full-time. (BLS, 1/24/14)
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