Poverty Rate
2000: 11.3% or 31.6 million Americans
2003: 12.5% or 35.9 million Americans
Stock market
Dow Jones Industrial Average
1/19/01: 10,587.59
1/19/05: 10,539.97
NASDAQ
1/19/01: 2,770.38
1/19/05: 2,073.59
S&P 500
1/19/01: 1,342.54
1/19/05: 1,184.63
Value of the Dollar
1/19/01: 1 Dollar = 1.06 Euros
1/19/05: 1 Dollar = 0.77 Euros
Budget
2000 budget surplus: $236.4 billion
2004 budget deficit: $412.6 billion
(That’s a shift of $649 billion and doesn’t include the cost of the Iraq war).
Cost of the war in Iraq
$150.8 billion
American Casualties in Iraq
Deaths: 1,369
Wounded: 10,252
The Debt
End of 2000: $5.7 trillion
Today: $7.6 trillion
(That’s a 4 year increase of 33%).
Jon Stewart had another set of numbers last night:
# of times Bush used the word "freedom" in his Inaugural Address: 27
# of times Bush used the word "liberty" in his Inaugural Address: 16