THE NUMBERS TELL

44 Million
Americans without health insurance.

8.3 Million
Americans who are unemployed.

3 Million
Americans who have lost their jobs during Bush Administration, resulting in over 6% unemployment, about twice as much as during Clinton terms.

300,000
Americans who have stopped looking for work due to weakened economy.

84,000 and $270 Million
Students who will not receive Federal education grants and the amount of money Bush wants to cut from government scholarships.

88%
Americans who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of the 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes.

40%
National Guardsmen 19 to 35 years old without health insurance.

$5-7 Trillion
The 10-year forecast from Congressional Budget Office, of U.S. deficit.

$1.35 Trillion
Cost of 2003 tax cut package passed by Republican Congress; 40% of benefits go to top 1% of income earners.

$410-425 Billion
Expected U.S. deficit for 2003, excluding cost of war in Iraq.

$100-600 Billion
Costs that "think tanks" estimated for rebuilding Iraq over decade. (While class sizes have to increase in schools as teacher numbers are reduced.)

$236 Billion
Surplus inherited from President Clinton, 2000.

$15 Billion
Amount offered by Bush to countries for HIV/AIDs prevention. But, in Aug. 2003, he authorized those funds only to organizations not providing family planning.

$12 Billion
Amount Bush requested for "No Child Left Behind" program, $6 billion LESS than Congress approved.

$8 Billion
Value of NO-BID contract to Halliburton, Cheney's company up to 2000. Total profits reported to SEC from Iraq, in 2003: $85 million.

$61,000,000
Amount Halliburton is accused of overbilling the U.S. on Iraq contracts.

$4 Billion
Monthly cost for 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

$106,864,215,738
Cost of Iraq war (March 2004)

$3 Million
Amount to commission looking into intelligence failures leading to 9/11. Compare: $100 million was spent on inquiries into Clinton presi-dency.

225,000
Number of people who wrote to Bush opposing changes in Clean Air Act.

$93,500
Average amount received by anyone earning over $1 million,result of tax cut

17,000
Number of facilities no longer required to put in anti-pollution controls, under Bush Executive order.

2 1/2 years
Number of years since Bush said he would find Osama Bin Laden, "dead or alive".



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