Bush By The Numbers

Personally, where The Prez is concerned, the only number that matters to me is "one" (as in, "boy, you sure are one sucky president.") However, the Numeralist has come up with their own set of numbers, and it's as compelling as it is disturbing.

Poverty Rate
2000: 11.3% or 31.6 million Americans
2003: 12.5% or 35.9 million Americans

STOCK MARKET

Dow Jones Industrial Average
1/19/01: 10,587.59
1/19/05: 10,539.97

NASDAQ
1/19/01: 2,770.38
1/19/05: 2,073.59

S&P 500
1/19/01: 1,342.54
1/19/05: 1,184.63

Value of the Dollar
1/19/01: 1 Dollar = 1.06 Euros
1/19/05: 1 Dollar = 0.77 Euros

Budget
2000 budget surplus $236.4 billion
2004 budget deficit $412.6 billion
(That's a shift of $649 billion and doesn't include the cost of the Iraq war.)

Cost of the war in Iraq
$150.8 billion

American Casualties in Iraq
Deaths: 1,369
Wounded: 10,252

The Debt
End of 2000: $5.7 trillion
Today: $7.6 trillion
(That's a 4 year increase of 33%)