Re: George W Bush and the Real State of the Union

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Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 by the lndependent/UK 
George W Bush and the Real State of the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-01.htm

Today the President gives his annual address. As the
election battle begins, how does his first term add up?
 
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and
January 2004

501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning of the
war - so far

0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi surrender
to the Allies in May 1945

0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that the Bush
administration has allowed to be photographed

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

13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became
President

10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets
in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time record for
simultaneous protest

2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since coming
into the White House

9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day since
the invasion in March last year

1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since
hostilities began

16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war

10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of
the conflict

$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens by the
end of 2003

$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding Iraq
(much of it in loans) as of 24 October

36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999

92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable water 
a year ago

60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable 
water today

32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not
precision-guided

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 (Record holder: 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 recognized 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 defense policy board who also sit on the
corporate board of, or advise, at least one defense 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 program 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 

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