50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America (gallon, Mexican)

[RazorRob305]

This article contains 50 random facts about how we got to where we are in the United States of America

50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America

Here's an interesting fact...
#46) Corexit 9500 is so incredibly toxic that the UK's Marine Management Organization has completely banned it, so if there was a major oil spill in the North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. And yet BP has dumped over a million gallons of dispersants such as Corexit 9500 into the Gulf of Mexico.

Which fact is your favorite?

[Swingblade]

This is a big scam from my limited understanding they pulled this on a country Greece},just think about how much power the banksters have
#24) According to prepared testimony by Goldman Sachs Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs shorted roughly $615 million of the collateralized debt obligations and residential mortgage-backed securities the firm underwrote since late 2006.
#23) The six biggest banks in the United States now possess assets equivalent to 60 percent of America's gross national product.
This is one of the reasons why our gvt leaders are scared to death of Barnanke and the banksters they know they can pull the plug and sink us at their will.That is why that they will always get bailed out.
#22) Four of the biggest U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup) had a "perfect quarter" with zero days of trading losses during the first quarter of 2010.
Is it any wonder when they all have flash trade tech and can minipulate the stock market to their advantage.They can make the market dance,case in point the 900 point drop when the Senate was debating the audit the fed bill.

[HappyTexan]

#35) A dinner cruise company in Chicago got nearly $1 million in economic stimulus funds to combat terrorism.

#14) 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement

#6) The total of all government, corporate and consumer debt in the United States is now about 360 percent of GDP.

[AuDiBelle]

#40) In the U.S., the average federal worker now earns about twice as much as the average worker in the private sector.

[Jadex]

#4) In Florida, students have been arrested by police for things as simple as bringing a plastic butter knife to school, throwing an eraser, and drawing a picture of a gun.

#18) On June 18th, two Christians decided that they would peacefully pass out copies of the gospel of John on a public sidewalk outside a public Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan and within 3 minutes 8 policemen surrounded them and placed them under arrest.
#28) In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has ranged between 300 to 500 to one (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/25481 - broken link).
There is just so many I would pick

[uggabugga]

here's one that should have made the cut:

Half-million in 'stimulus' funds is going to pay for busing mexican students into the US for free public educations (http://www.judicialwatch.org/foiablog?page=6 - broken link)

[LauraC]

This would be Number 1:

"#37) The federal government actually has the gall to ask for online donations that will supposedly go towards paying off the national debt."

This would be Number 2:

#50) A new report released by the United Nations is publicly calling for the establishment of a world currency and none of the major news networks are even covering it.

This would be Number 3:

#27) Federal border officials recently said that Mexican drug cartels have not only set up shop on American soil, they are actually maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona.

[RazorRob305]

Originally Posted by LauraC

This would be Number 1:

"#37) The federal government actually has the gall to ask for online donations that will supposedly go towards paying off the national debt."

This would be Number 2:

#50) A new report released by the United Nations is publicly calling for the establishment of a world currency and none of the major news networks are even covering it.

This would be Number 3:

#27) Federal border officials recently said that Mexican drug cartels have not only set up shop on American soil, they are actually maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona.

#27 is sick man

[evilnewbie]

Originally Posted by whatyousay

#40) In the U.S., the average federal worker now earns about twice as much as the average worker in the private sector.

Don't forget the million dollar pensions that these government workers get... why we let liberals actually run the government, I will never understand... stupid sheep...

[Marksman84]

#35) A dinner cruise company in Chicago got nearly $1 million in economic stimulus funds to combat terrorism.


Chicago...hmmm...who do we know with racketeering...excuse me....ties to Chicago?

#4) In Florida, students have been arrested by police for things as simple as bringing a plastic butter knife to school, throwing an eraser, and drawing a picture of a gun.

I have an eight-year-old, and this gestapo mentality is occurring in schools all over the nation. "Hey, you kids stop acting like kids right now and be cynical and miserable like our government!!!" I'm waiting for the day when a kid is expelled for farting in class.