13 Numbers that tell how bad BushCo has been for America !

[Catchawave]

Source: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Donation Drive Letter
and www.dscc.org

1. $150 billion - spent on the Iraq war so far.

2. 0 - number of weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.

3. $1 billion - how much the Bush Administration has underfunded domestic port security.

4. 3 - the multiple by which North Korea has increased its nuclear weapons arsenal while George Bush led us into Iraq.

5. $98 billion - how much the Bush Administration has underfunded first responders since 9/11.

6. $230 billion - the surplus President Bill Clinton left George Bush.

7. $422 billion - the current deficit under George Bush.

8. 800,000 - the net loss of jobs in George Bush's first term.

9. $9.4 billion - how much the Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act.

10. 5 million - the number of people who have lost their health insurance since George Bush took office.

11. 20,000 - the number of premature deaths annually resulting from the Republicans gutting the Clean Air Act.

12. $400 million - how much the Bush Administration wants to slash the EPA's budget.

13. 0 - the number of mistakes George Bush admits to making in his first term.

Also, comments about:

George Bush - Our president is pulling out all the stops to destroy Sail Security - the most successful pension plan in human history. (Don't seniors deserve a guaranteed safety net?)

Tom Delay - When the House Republican Leader is worried that all his ethics violations will catch up with him, he just strong-arms his colleagues into changing the rules. Then, Republicans go on TV and defend him! (What kind of party picks a guy like this to be its leader?)

Bill Frist - The Senate Republican Leader and his right wing cronies are working hard to annihilate our system of checks and balances in order to capture total control of our federal courts. (Do you want Bill Frist to be the next president?)

THE FAR RIGHT KNOWS NO BOUNDS...AND NEITHER DOES THEIR LUST FOR UNCHECKED POWER!

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Of course the DSCC is starting to fill it's War Chest for 2006! Though I thought they brought up some very good talking points, that I'm sure they found on DU ! Of course, I'll be donating all my pennies to Sen. George Allen's challenger, which is rumored to be Gov. Mark Warner. Which are rumored to be the Dem-GOP ticket for '08. Are we having fun yet in Virginia? LOL.
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[Birthmark]

1. A couple more numbers for you

688,000 - increase in Americans unemployed
6,107,000 - increase in Americans Not in Labor Force

[oscar111]

2. 1O9 Trillion is US wealth: yet we only get cuts to social benefits?

4 billion.. tiny part of ONE trillion.. would end homelessness

12 billion.. would end US hunger

WPA..ends all unemployment and poverty.... see sig below... no cost, as harnessing the output of the currently unharnessed jobless,... would pay, not cost.
WPA would end all joblessness and thus, all poverty.

Works Progress Administration === used in the thirties great depression time to curb thirty percent joblessness. We need it permanently to assure jobs for all at all times.

Employment is a RIGHT, under the UN charter which we signed.. thus it is mandated law in our nation too.
Mandated law, but ignored by bush.

MSM never told you of this little legal matter. Details at njfac site, in sig below. At the site, see col at left .. click "uncommon sense", then on that page, click no. six "Supreme law of the land" for Employment is a RIGHT in the US. Surprise. Ditto, other signatories to the charter, like Mexico, with fifty percent jobless.

wealth, see bottom line at

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/accessible/l5.htm

[Catchawave]

8. John Edwards' Poverty Center.....

Did I tell you he's my hero ?

http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/unc.asp

UNC-Chapel Hill creates Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity; names former Sen. John Edwards as director

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is launching a Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity that will be led by former U.S. Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards.

The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity will be a nonpartisan initiative, bringing together UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and other national public policy experts to examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class. The center will have an advisory committee of senior faculty representing multiple disciplines across campus. In addition to leading the center, Edwards also will serve as a guest lecturer on campus.

"John Edwards is a distinguished Carolina alumnus, and we are delighted that he will return to campus to bring together today’s best minds to focus on issues that affect us all," Chancellor James Moeser said.

Edwards spent six years in the U.S. Senate. In that time, he championed policy initiatives such as raising the minimum wage, expanding the earned income tax credit, creating matching savings accounts for low-income families, and providing incentives for teachers to teach in low-income schools. Edwards also focused on poverty during last year’s presidential campaign.

"The time I spent at Chapel Hill gave me many of the tools I have used all my life to help those who are struggling, and I am so proud that I will be able to continue this work and also give something back to UNC-Chapel Hill," Edwards said. "As director of the center, I will work to explore creative approaches to the difficulties that families in poverty face every day."

"John Edwards will be a marvelous resource for faculty and students across campus," said Law School Dean Gene Nichol. "His life experiences as well as his time as senator and vice presidential candidate make him ideally suited to lead this new center."

At UNC-Chapel Hill, Edwards will hold a part-time, two-year, fixed-term faculty position. He will be designated a University Professor and hold an Alumni Distinguished Professorship, which is funded by private gifts to the University. It takes effect Feb. 14.

...more at link

[Mich Otter]

25. America maintains unemployment.

America maintains unemployment by raising the "Prime Interest Rate" whenever unemployment drops to around 5%. We have the government causing some people to remain unemployed to reduce workers demanding higher wages in order to keep inflation low. We need a better way of controlling inflation than maintaining unemployment levels around 5%.

[Catchawave]

3. Great, let's build this list!

I have it bookmarked for future reference. Only because BushCo only seems to understand "profit" numbers. Thanks :hi:

[baldguy]

29. 1.3 million more millionaires

3000 more people worth $20 million or more.

Don't get me wrong - that's great. If only the economy grew enough to support them.

[tabasco]

4. 910 million.

Amount of dollars cut from veterans' programs in 2006 proposed budget.

This at a time when more and more of our vets are returning disbled and in need of good care.

[Catchawave]

7. Outrageous isn't it.....

...and I bet it all went to "pork".

[bvar22]

5. Over 100,000

the number Iraqis (Men, Women, Children) KILLED so george bush* could be The War President, and our War Profiteers could privatize Iraqi assets.

OVER 400,000 Iraqis maimed for LIFE for the Greater Glory of the Republican Party.

1658 Americans DEAD for the bush* War on the Iraqi People.

[Catchawave]

6. This is all under Bush's watch too....so sad :(

Makes me wonder why the DSCC didn't use these numbers? Though, by now, there are no words for this kind of outrage....and human cost.

[Cha]

30. These are all very Important

numbers and who knows how high they will go before they stop growing.

[Karenina]

32. That "over 100,000" reference

(Not about you using it bvar22 :hug:, it's jes'everytime Tante see it she go ballistic...)

grr: :puke: :grr: it's what, 8-9 months old and of a certainty, a "diplomatic" lowball. Don't wanna bother anyone's "beautiful mind" or nothin'. Don't mind me. I'm jes' venting. ;-)

[knowbody0]

9. factor in the everlasting effects of Depleted Uranium

[Catchawave]

11. Forgive my ignorance, but what is depleted urnanium?

On my large menu of liberal causes, I apologize I didn't pay more attention to this. Thanks for your help :hi:

[knowbody0]

13. the bombs we drop, the rockets we launch

in this war and in the first gulf war have contaminated the air, the soil and the water in iraq. go to Einswine.com for photo realities. our soldiers are all exposed to it as well.

[Catchawave]

28. Thanks for explaining....

we really don't hear enough about collateral damage, like Agent Orange, that killed thousands years after the VN war ended.

[Catchawave]

10. 53.1 billion tax loss to offshore banking (2001)

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/corporate_tax_evasion_offshore.html

It's probably tripled by now, just when we need it most. To be fair, there may be some 'blue' companies doing this too? Still, it's outrageous. And we still haven't gotten to offshoring JOBS, OY!

[TryingToWarnYou]

12. This is great, but.. you need to cite your sources

Otherwise it looks like any other "WAG" numbers pulled out of the air by the conservatives.

[Catchawave]

19. I agree....but, but, but

My source was stated in my OM...the DSCC...most replies have stated links to sources, my apologies, many are my own !

I was hoping to start a thread with many links to credible sources.

[snowbear]

14. ZERO....

0 = number of terms Bush has left.

If Bush has his way....



:puke:

[Catchawave]

15. U.S. Welfare Statistics Chart (HHS/2003)

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/press/2003/mar03_jun03.htm

Old, but still Bush.

[peacetalksforall]

16. 3.1 TRILLION missing from DOD and HUD n/t

[Catchawave]

18. I think this was the Halliburton Bonus Act

Seriously, according to <nameless>, the employees working for Gov Contractors are making a gazillion percent more than the the troops, AND, have bankers hours AND the latest in designer weapons and protection.

I'm sure we won't find any of them posting here :(

[Catchawave]

17. Bush's Top Ten Flip-Flops (CBSnews Sept04)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/28/politics/main646142.shtml

****Ohhhhh, now I understand Rathergate****



(CBS) The charge of "flip-flopping" has resounded throughout the presidential race, with the Bush campaign repeatedly accusing Sen. John Kerry of changing his mind on the issues. The Kerry campaign, in turn, has declared that Mr. Bush is the one doing the flip-flopping.

CBSNews.com Chief Political Writer David Paul Kuhn looks at the record and finds both men are correct. Here, the president's most notable flip-flops.

.....listed at link :kick:

[RevCheesehead]

20. Awesome numbers, Catch - good work!

:kick:

[Catchawave]

21. Thanks dahling :) we need MORE...

and thanks to all my PMers who knew this thread would drop like a rock and thanked me for it too....

SOOOOOOOOOO...post more numbers ;) Like I said earlier, I bookmarked it, may bring this topic up again after the holiday weekend :)

[leftofthedial]

22. great numbers

thanks

[oxbow]

23. I live in VA

I really hate that bushclone Allen, too. He is a neo-con stormtrooper, he has no spine of his own that I've seen. I'll be happy to help beat him in '06

[applegrove]

24. Well presented. And the housing bubble is what saved the jobs.

We all should have taken our medicine during 2002 when a recession would have happened and warned people to save and such.

[tritsofme]

26. I take exception to the way they calculated net loss of 800k jobs

in the first term.

To do that they must only look at the private sector and ignore new government jobs at all levels.

That includes first responders, and a whole host of other essential government workers. Not to mention the effect of the creation of the TSA must have had.

bush created 100,000 jobs in his first term, that is a figure that is meager and pathetic enough by itself, take that against 11.5 million new jobs created in Clinton's first term.

[Hissyspit]

27. Add the number of foreign students lost to the U.S. and to our colleges...

and universities because they have been frightened off.

[Cha]

31. I have some numbers..

Almost 3000 dead on September 11,2001 due to the bushreich's Inaction on events leading up to it.

The bush junta scoffed at the Hart-Rudman Report(http://graypantherssf.igc.org/hartrudman.htm) and bush took the month of August in 2001 off. The August Memo..not considered of enough importance by condjob,bush's national security advisor http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0518-04.htm

Were they ignoring warnings on purpose or are they just guilty of gross negligence?

There have been so many crimes by this regime and covered up by the mainstreammedia in the USA that it's breathtaking to keep up.

The concerted effort to keep what really happened before and on 9/11 from being made public is one of the most vile coverups in American history.

[wryter2000]

33. You know what?

This would be a good thing to bulk mail in reply to crap you get from e-mail friends.

You know...when you get one of those anonymous screeds about how well things are going in Iraq, hit "reply to all" and send this.