By the Numbers: The U.S. After 4 Years of Bush 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 all of 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%. http://numeralist.blogspot.com/2005/01/by-numbers-u.html -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest - I think Brin was on to something in 'Earth' in suggesting the right to vote be dependent upon subscribing to some opposing viewpoint media. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
