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Always good to have some numbers....
Published today in "The independant" (UK).
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George W Bush and the real state of the Union
Today the President gives his annual address. As the
election battle begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004
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 cililians
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 (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