If you look back and take stock of 2024, I don’t think it’s speaking out of turn to call it one of the most bonkers year we’ve had in a very, very long time. Let’s just take a quick look back. Over the course of 2024, now President-elect Donald Trump was convicted on felony charges, was almost murdered twice, won the presidential election by a massive landslide, and also nabbed the honor of being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. That’s a heck of a year.
But that’s not all that went down. Israel has gone to war with not only Hamas following a terrorist attack in 2023, but also Hezbollah and Iran too. Radical Islamists overthrew the government of Syria and NATO started handing out long-range missiles to Ukraine who promptly fired them into the heart of Russia. Forces from Russia then marched into the eastern part of Ukraine.
Then there was massive hurricanes, “The Great American Eclipse,” and “the comet of the century.” Toward the end of the year we have the massive spread of bird flu across the country, leaving cattle herds and bird flocks decimated.
Can 2025 somehow top all this? I truly hope not. But it seems like the table is being set for that to happen.
The End of the American Dream has a list of incredible statistics from last year worth taking a look at as we kick off 2025.
#1 Over 155 million votes were cast in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump’s win in that election capped what many consider to be the greatest political comeback in U.S. history.
#2 Nearly 11 billion dollars was spent during the 2024 election cycle. That is the most money ever spent on an election by a very wide margin.
#3 1.2 billion dollars was spent on political ads in the state of Pennsylvania alone.
#4 Prior to the election, one survey found that 79 percent of Americans believed that the nation was on the wrong track.
#5 The U.S. government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt.
#6 If our politicians keep spending money at the current rate, the U.S. government will be 51 trillion dollars in debt four years from now.
#7 Total U.S. household debt is nearing 18 trillion dollars.
#8 The number of shoplifting incidents per year in the United States is up 93 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels.
#9 On a single day in December, Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the prison sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and he issued full pardons to 39 others.
#10 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 37 percent of Americans are having trouble even paying their most basic bills.
Another interesting tidbit from this last year that helps further illustrate how disastrous Biden’s economic policies were for this country is that the price of orange juice has gone up 327 percent over the course of the last 3 years. In a similar vein, the average household in Miama now spends a whopping 327 dollars during just one trip to the supermarket.
Further depressing news economically speaking that hit Americans this past year is that it now costs well over a hundred thousand dollars a year for a household to be able to live out the American Dream in all 50 states. In close to 29 states in the country it actually takes more than $150,000 a year.
Speaking of depression, 30 percent of Americans have now been clinically diagnosed as suffering from depression at some point in their lives. A total of 40 percent also report ehy are feeling lonely at least some of the time.
All of this to say, please pray for our nation as we start a new year. We really went through the ringer in 2024. Let’s hope we can get things back on track with Trump at the helm.
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