Want to know why I can’t listen to Rush Limbaugh? Replace the words “liberal” and “Democrat” with “Jew.” It won’t take you long to get sick to your stomach.
(And, for the record, I don’t like Kerry, either.)
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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 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
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
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
1983:
The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs
$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
$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 holidays 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
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
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
1951:
Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was greater than the one the previous spring
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
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