Better vote for the Democrats! BTW this is really anti-Bush, before you start whinging about anti-USA sentiments 
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... 0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq 100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney in 2003 (... Iraq blah blah...) 1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs 45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US $127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001 $374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003 1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United States history $1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases each day $23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of 19 January 2004 1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57 million) was set in 2002 10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 33 1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita $113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, setting a record in American electoral history $130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far $200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in 2004 $40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003 28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard Nixon) 13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each year 3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing children 1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history 2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration 221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000 1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000 1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office 9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003 80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed 55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war 43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002 130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with an American military presence 40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible $10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet 88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes $42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes $42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001 $116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year in taxes 44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy 700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held prisoners of war +6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in poverty 1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was greater than the one the previous spring 54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately elected to his post 1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40 years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at federal level 9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor 35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court $300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes $1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq 58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling 200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken 29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the Pentagon 90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26 September, 2001 53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004 |
Taken from http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482947
ya knew i couldnt let ya rest on that one man....
who really gives a f**k?