83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
By
Michael Snyder,
on December
16th, 2013
During
2013, America
continued to
steadily march
down a
self-destructive
path toward
oblivion. As a
society, our debt
levels are
completely and
totally out of
control. Our
financial system
has been
transformed into
the largest casino
on the entire
planet and our big
banks are behaving
even more
recklessly than
they did just
before the last
financial crisis.
We continue to see
thousands of
businesses and
millions of jobs
get shipped out of
the United States,
and the middle
class is being
absolutely
eviscerated. Due
to the lack of
decent jobs,
poverty is
absolutely
exploding.
Government
dependence is at
an all-time high
and crime is
rising. Evidence
of social and
moral decay is
seemingly
everywhere, and
our government
appears to be
going insane. If
we are going to
have any hope of
solving these
problems, the
American people
need to take a
long, hard look in
the mirror and
finally admit how
bad things have
actually become.
If we all just
blindly have faith
that "everything
is going to be
okay", the
consequences of
decades of
incredibly foolish
decisions are
going to
absolutely
blindside us and
we will be
absolutely
devastated by the
great crisis that
is rapidly
approaching. The
United States is
in a massive
amount of trouble,
and it is time
that we all
started facing the
truth. The
following are 83
numbers from 2013
that are almost
too crazy to
believe...
#1 Most people that hear this statistic do
not believe that
it is actually
true, but right
now an all-time
record 102 million working age Americans do
not have a job.
That number has
risen by about 27
million since the
year 2000.
#2 Because of the lack of jobs, poverty is
spreading like
wildfire in the
United States.
According to the
most recent
numbers from the
U.S. Census
Bureau, an
all-time record 49.2 percent of all
Americans are
receiving benefits
from at
least one
government program
each month.
#3 As society breaks down, the government
feels a greater
need than ever
before to watch,
monitor and track
the population.
For example, every
single day the NSA
intercepts and
permanently stores
close to 2 billion emails and phone calls in
addition to a
whole host of
other data.
#4 The
Bank for
International
Settlements says
that total public
and private debt
levels around the
globe are now 30 percent higher than they
were back during
the financial
crisis of 2008.
#5 According
to a recent World Bank report, private
domestic debt in
China has grown
from 9 trillion
dollars in 2008 to
23 trillion
dollars today.
#6 In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in
the United
States. Today,
there are only 6,891
left.
#7 The six largest banks in the United
States (JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of
America,
Citigroup, Wells
Fargo, Goldman
Sachs and Morgan
Stanley) have
collectively
gotten 37 percent larger over the
past five years.
#8 The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion
dollars in total
assets. The six
largest banks now
account for 67 percent of those assets
and all of the
other banks
account for only 33 percent of those assets.
#9 JPMorgan
Chase is roughly
the size of the entire British economy.
#10 The
five largest banks
now account for 42 percent of all loans in
the United States.
#11 Right
now, four of the
"too big to fail"
banks each have
total exposure to
derivatives that
is well in excess
of 40 trillion dollars.
#12 The
total exposure
that Goldman Sachs
has to derivatives
contracts is more than 381 times greater than
their total
assets.
#13 According
to the Bank for
International
Settlements, the
global financial
system has a total
of 441 trillion dollars worth
of exposure to
interest rate
derivatives.
#14 Through
the end of
November,
approximately 365,000 Americans had signed
up for Obamacare
but approximately 4 million Americanshad
already lost their
current health
insurance policies
because of
Obamacare.
#15 It is
being projected
that up to 100 million more Americans could
have their health
insurance policies
canceled by the
time Obamacare is
fully rolled out.
#16 At
this point, 82.4 million Americans live
in a home where at
least one person
is enrolled in the
Medicaid program.
#17 It is
has been estimated
that Obamacare
will add 21 million more Americans to
the Medicaid
rolls.
#18 It is
being projected
that health
insurance premiums
for healthy
30-year-old men
will rise by an
average of 260 percent under Obamacare.
#19 One
couple down in
Texas received a letter from their health
insurance
company that
informed them that
they were being
hit with a 539
percent rate
increase because
of Obamacare.
#20 Back
in 1999, 64.1 percent of all
Americans were
covered by
employment-based
health insurance.
Today, only 54.9 percent of all
Americans are
covered by
employment-based
health insurance.
#21 The
U.S. government
has spent an
astounding 3.7 trillion dollarson
welfare programs
over the past five
years.
#22 Incredibly, 74 percent of all the wealth
in the United
States is owned by
the wealthiest 10
percent of all
Americans.
#23 According
to Consumer
Reports, the
number of children
in the United
States taking
antipsychotic
drugs has nearly tripled over the
past 15 years.
#24 The
marriage rate in
the United States
has fallen to an
all-time low.
Right now it is
sitting at a
yearly rate of
just 6.8 marriages per 1000 people.
#25 According
to a shocking new
study, the average
American that
turned 65 this
year will receive $327,500 more in federal
benefits than they
paid in taxes over
the course of
their lifetimes.
#26 In just one week in December, a
combined total of
more than 2000 new
cold temperature
and snowfall
records were set
in the United
States.
#27 According
to the U.S. Census
Bureau, median
household income
in the United
States has fallen for five years in a row.
#28 The
rate of
homeownership in
the United States
has fallen for eight years in a row.
#29 Only 47 percent of all adults in
America have a
full-time job at
this point.
#30 The
unemployment rate
in the eurozone
recently hit a new all-time high of 12.2
percent.
#31 If you
assume that the
labor force
participation rate
in the U.S. is at
the long-term
average, the
unemployment rate
in the United
States would
actually be 11.5 percent instead of 7
percent.
#32 In
November 2000, 64.3 percent of all working
age Americans had
a job. When
Barack Obama first
entered the White
House, 60.6 percent of all working
age Americans had
a job. Today,
only 58.6 percent of all working
age Americans have
a job.
#33 There
are 1,148,000 fewer Americans working
today than there
was in November
2006. Meanwhile,
our population has
grown by more than
16 million people
during that time
frame.
#34 Only 19 percent of all Americans
believe that the
job market is
better than it was
a year ago.
#35 Just 14 percent of all Americans
believe that the
stock market will
rise next year.
#36 According
to CNBC, Pinterest
is currently
valued at more than 3 billion dollars even
though it has
never earned a
profit.
#37 Twitter
is a
seven-year-old
company that has
never made a
profit. It
actually lost 64.6 million dollars last
quarter. But
according to the
financial markets
it is currently
worth about 22
billion dollars.
#38 Right
now, Facebook is
trading at a
valuation that is
equivalent to
approximately 100 years of earnings, and
it is currently
supposedly worth
about 115 billion dollars.
#39 Total
consumer credit
has risen by a
whopping 22 percent over the past
three years.
#40 Student
loans are up by an
astounding 61 percent over the past
three years.
#41 At
this moment, there
are 6 million Americans in the
16 to 24-year-old
age group that are
neither in school
or working.
#42 The
"inactivity rate"
for men in their
prime working
years (25 to 54)
has just hit a brand new all-time record high.
#43 It is
hard to believe,
but in America
today one out of
every ten jobs is
now filled by a temp agency.
#44 Middle-wage
jobs accounted
for 60 percent of the jobs lost
during the last
recession, but
they have
accounted for
only 22 percent of the jobs
created since
then.
#45 According
to the Social
Security
Administration, 40 percent of all U.S.
workers make less
than $20,000 a
year.
#46 Approximately one out of every four part-time
workers in America
is living below
the poverty line.
#47 After
accounting for
inflation, 40
percent of all
U.S. workers are
making less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made
back in 1968.
#48 When
Barack Obama took
office, the
average duration
of unemployment in
this country was
19.8 weeks.
Today, it is 37.2 weeks.
#49 Investors
pulled an
astounding 72 billion dollars out of
bond mutual funds
in 2013. It was
the worst year for
bond funds ever.
#50 Small
business is
rapidly dying in
America. At this
point, only about 7 percent of all
non-farm workers
in the United
States are
self-employed.
That is an
all-time record
low.
#51 The
six heirs of
Wal-Mart founder
Sam Walton have as
much wealth as the
bottom one-third
of all Americans combined.
#52 Once
January 1st hits,
it will
officially be illegal to manufacture or
import traditional
incandescent light
bulbs in the
United States. It
is being projected
that millions of
Americans will
attempt to stock
up on the old
light bulbs before
they are totally
gone from store
shelves.
#53 The
Japanese
government has
estimated that
approximately 300 tons of highly
radioactive water
is being released
into the Pacific
Ocean from the
destroyed
Fukushima nuclear
facility every
single day.
#54 Back
in 1967, the U.S.
military had more than 31,000 strategic
nuclear warheads.
That number is
already being cut
down to 1,550, and
now Barack Obama
wants to reduce
it to only about 1,000.
#55 As you
read this, 60 percent of all children
in Detroit are
living in poverty
and there are
approximately 78,000 abandoned homes in
the city.
#56 Wal-Mart
recently opened up
two new stores in
Washington D.C.,
and more than 23,000 people applied
for just 600
positions. That
means that only
about 2.6 percent
of the applicants
were ultimately
hired. In
comparison,
Harvard offers
admission to 6.1 percent of their
applicants.
#57 At
this point, almost
half of
all public school
students in
America come from
low income homes.
#58 Tragically,
there are 1.2 million students that
attend public
schools in the
United States that
are homeless.
That number has
risen by 72
percent since the
start of the last
recession.
#59 According
to a Gallup poll that was
recently released,
20.0 percent of
all Americans did
not have enough
money to buy food
that they or their
families needed at
some point over
the past year.
That is just under
the all-time
record of 20.4
percent that was
set back in
November 2008.
#60 The
number of
Americans on food
stamps has grown
from 17 million in the year 2000
to more than 47 million today.
#61 Right
now, one out of every five households
in the United
States is on food
stamps.
#62 The
U.S. economy loses approximately 9,000 jobs for
every 1 billion
dollars of goods
that are imported
from overseas.
#63 Back
in 1950, more than 80 percent of all
men in the United
States had jobs.
Today, less than 65 percent of all
men in the United
States have jobs.
#64 According
to one survey, approximately 75
percent of all
American women do
not have any
interest in dating
unemployed men.
#65 China
exports 4 billion pounds of food to
the United States
every year.
#66 Overall,
the United States
has run a trade
deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with
the rest of the
world since 1975.
#67 The
number of
Americans on
Social Security
Disability now
exceeds
the entire population of Greece,
and the number of
Americans on food
stamps now
exceeds the entire population of Spain.
#68 It is
being projected
that the number of
Americans on
Social Security
will rise from 57
million today to
more than 100 million in 25 years.
#69 Back
in 1970, the total
amount of debt in
the United States
(government debt +
business debt +
consumer debt,
etc.) was less
than 2 trillion
dollars. Today it
is over 56 trillion dollars.
#70 Back
on September 30th,
2012 our national
debt was sitting
at a total of 16.1 trillion dollars.
Today, it is up
to 17.2 trillion dollars.
#71 The
U.S. government
"rolled over" more than 7.5 trillion dollars of
existing debt in
fiscal 2013.
#72 If the
U.S. national debt
was reduced to a
stack of one
dollar bills it
would circle the
earth at the
equator 45 times.
#73 When
Barack Obama was
first elected, the
U.S. debt to GDP
ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it
is up to 101 percent.
#74 The
U.S. national debt
is on pace to more than double during
the eight years of
the Obama
administration.
In other words,
under Barack Obama
the U.S.
government will
accumulate more
debt than it did
under all of the
other presidents
in U.S. history
combined.
#75 The
federal government
is borrowing
roughly 100
million dollars
from our children
and our
grandchildren
every single hour
of every single
day.
#76 At
this point, the
U.S. already has
more government
debt per capita
than
Greece, Portugal,
Italy, Ireland or
Spain.
#77 Japan
now has a debt to
GDP ratio of more than 211 percent.
#78 As of
December 5th, 83
volcanic eruptions
had been recorded
around the planet
so far this year.
That is a new
all-time
record high.
#79 53 percent of all Americans
do not have a 3
day supply of
nonperishable food
and water in their
homes.
#80 Violent
crime in the
United States was
up 15 percent last year.
#81 According
to a very
surprising survey
that was recently
conducted,68 percent of all Americans
believe that the
country is
currently on the
wrong track.
#82 Back
in 1972, 46 percent of all Americans
believed that
"most people can
be trusted".
Today, only 32 percent of all Americans
believe that "most
people can be
trusted".
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