The following information was found at The American Dream and the link to the article is listed below.
This information does not surprise me at all. Although I distance myself as far as I can from the “name it claimers,” I relate these financial problems to spiritual ones. Number 13 is a social ill that affects many of these numbers greatly. If folks saw marriage the way God does, we wouldn’t be in near as big a fix. Marriage is so important to God that he relates it to His relationship with believers.
No. 4 means that more than one in nine Americans get food stamps. No. 16 means that none of these numbers, unless artificially “doctored,” will get any better soon.
Giving to charities was down 11% last year. This is a record since statistics have been kept and is not included in the 16 records below.
These numbers point to something I’ve called the root of our problem all along. How can God bless a nation that’s turned its back on Him?
CR
#1 U.S. banks repossessed a record total of 102,134 homes in September. That was the very first time that home repossessions in the United States have ever surpassed the 100,000 mark during one month.
#2 The price of gold hit another record high on Thursday as the U.S. dollar continues to get even weaker.
#3 Household spending for the middle fifth of all U.S. income earners was down 3.5% in 2009. That was the steepest one year decline since records began being kept back in 1984.
#4 The number of Americans enrolled in the food stamp program passed the 41 million mark for the first time ever during the month of June.
#5 The number of Americans enrolled in the food stamp program has set a new all-time record for 20 consecutive months.
#6 The Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans that they have ever recorded in 51 years of record-keeping.
#7 According to the Associated Press, experts believe that in 2009 the U.S. poverty rate experienced the largest single year increase since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959.
#8 It is projected that the major financial firms on Wall Street will pay out an all-time record of $144 billion in compensation for 2010.
#9 In July, sales of new homes in the United States declined to the lowest level ever recorded.
#10 As of last March, U.S. banks had an inventory of 1.1 million foreclosed homes, which was a new all-time record and which was up 20 percent from one year earlier.
#11 The number of Americans working part-time jobs “for economic reasons” is now the highest it has been in at least five decades.
#12 Earlier in 2010, the average time needed to find a job had risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
#13 As millions of Americans struggled just to survive in this economy, the number of marriages fell to a record low in 2009.
#14 A record 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid, the U.S. government health care program designed principally to help the poor.
#15 Americans now owe more than $849 billion on student loans, which is a new all-time record.
#16 The U.S. government has accumulated a national debt that is rapidly approaching 14 trillion dollars. The U.S. national debt sets a new all-time record every single month with no end in sight.
Posted by Chris 
MR. OBAMA’S JUDICIAL NOMINEE DID WHAT?
October 17, 2010Washington (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration hopes to see its judicial nominees confirmed to their posts during the lame duck session of Congress to be held after the November mid-term elections, before the new Congress convenes in January 2011, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
You can read the rest of the CNS story by going to the link below.
Why is this story important?
Here’s a portion of an article by Mario Diaz, on the Concerned Women for America website:
Robert Chatigny, President Obama’s nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is still expecting a vote in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Chatigny is the infamous judge who abused his position as a judge to advocate for serial rapist and murderer Michael Ross, a.k.a. the “Roadside Strangler.” Chatingy’s actions in that case were so egregious that state prosecutors filed ethics complaint against him.
The Roadside Strangler was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering six Connecticut young women ages 15-25. He actually admits to killing two more for a total of eight and said that he liked strangling his victims because “there is more of a connection, it’s more real, and it’s not as quick.”
Yet Judge Chatigny advocated so strongly for this serial rapist and murderer that he actually told prosecutors the Roadside Strangler was the “least culpable person on death row” and that he “never should have been convicted.” His reasoning was that “sexual sadism” was “clearly a mitigating factor.” To that point Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) asked him at the hearings, “Can you site any authority in which sexual sadism has been defined as a mitigating factor?” Chatigny, of course, could not.
The Roadside Strangler himself did not want to appeal his conviction and when his attorney tried to follow his client’s wishes, Chatigny went so far as to threaten him with his law license. Again, Sen. Sessions asked him about this at the hearings and Chatigny himself agreed that this was totally inappropriate for him to do.
One of the prosecutors involved in the case wrote a powerful letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee with a detailed account of the events and concluded with the following:
Judge Chatigny’s actions while presiding over the habeas corpus petition and the §1983 action constituted judicial misconduct for four reasons. First, Judge Chatigny completely abandoned the role of neutral and detached magistrate and instead became an advocate for the position held by the parties who were seeking to stop the execution of Michael Ross. Second, Judge Chatigny’s attempt to direct the manner in which Attorney Paulding advised his client constituted blatant interference with Michael Ross’s constitutional right to representation by counsel of his choice. Third, after having been reversed by higher courts, Judge Chatigny chose to defy those rulings and effectively overturn them through the use of threats and intimidation. Finally, Judge Chatigny’s failure to disqualify himself from a case in which he had participated as an attorney, or at least notify the parties of his prior participation, violated the requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 455(b). These actions certainly call into questions Judge Chatigny’s fitness to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
I am aware of the delay tactics that concerned Senators used to hold up the confirmation of Judge Chatigny. However, I’m pretty sure that this has worked out well for those who may have voted to confirm him. How many senators would have voted to confirm the unfit judge before the upcoming elections?
One wonders if those who would have supported Mr. Obama’s nominee didn’t allow things to happen this way. It’s fair to assume any vote in favor of Judge Chatigny would have been used against any politician by opponents in elections starting tomorrow (early voting).
How is it possible that Mr. Obama could nominate a judge with this man’s record?
How is it that this judge was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee?
The only answer to these two questions is that our president and the majority of the members on the Senate Judiciary Committee are out of touch with the American people.
If I am wrong on this, if the majority of the American people knew this judge’s history and agreed with Mr. Obama on his nomination, then it will be a short time until the U.S. fails.
I don’t think a huge part of the American public knows stories like one this because the mainstream media has a godless worldview.
Jesus told a story about a woman who wanted something so she continually knocked on the judge’s door. He finally had to answer the door and answer the woman.
I hope there are still enough people left in this country knocking on the Judge’s door.
Chris Reimers
CNS News complete article:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/76102
Concerned Women of America complete article:
http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?id=19473
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