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01/21/2004 Archived Entry: "Happy State of the Union!"

George W Bush and the real state of the Union
$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

2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their
jobs during the three years of the Bush administration

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

$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet

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

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