Bush Years by the (Staggering) Numbers

A look at the statistics behind the George W. Bush presidency

January 15, 2009 RSS Feed Print
  • $10,024,724,896,912 : U.S. national debt in September 2008
  • $ 5,674,178,209,886 : U.S. national debt in September 2000
  • 2.6 million : Number of U.S. jobs lost in 2008
  • 69: Percentage of Americans who think the U.S. has "lost ground" under Bush
  • 2.3 million: Americans who faced foreclosures in 2008, up 81 percent from 2007
  • 52 months: Longest period of continued job growth under Bush
  • $860 billion: Total cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as of July 2008
  • $192 billion: Amount given to U.S. banks under TARP as of January 13

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Sources: CRS, AP, RealtyTrac, Gallup, Treasurydirect.gov

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lets add another moronic figure to that, number of U.S. civilians killed on the mainland U.S. prior to 9/11 umm that's right 0 so what's your point, Bush wasn't president then, but yeah we should him credit for that too. I prefer the threat of harm from outside forces then from my own government thank you.

Frank of NJ 11:22AM January 28, 2009

Why don't you try reporting objectively, God forbid, and add one more data point to your slanderous collection of numbers ?

0 - number of American fatalities on U.S. soil since 09/11/01 due to terrorism.

Joseph of NC 11:58AM January 18, 2009

It is unbelievable that during the boom years when the economy was strong, Bush ran an enormous deficit. What would he have done if he was not presented with a strong and growing economy when he came to power? It is truly mind boggling that one mans economic policy can destroy his own economy but also the worlds economic growth along with creating a world wide recession (depression).

Bush has also claimed that he has made the USA and the world a safer place, what a load of crap. He has only managed to make the world a more dangerous place by creating terrorists in places there was none before. When people think they are being repressed, controlled and dictated to, they fight back eventually and this is what most of the world but especially the middle east are doing now. The only way to fight terrorism is with equitable foreign policy not with equivocated policies like the Iraq policies that we now know where wrong (lies), weapons of mass destruction.

The USA had a brilliant president after the second world war who realized and declared publicly that the USA was in danger of becoming a military dictatorship if it didn't alter it's direction, sad but this is becoming reality now. Incidentally the president fired the most powerful general and commander during the Korean war, whom was a war hero from the second world war. Why was he fired, because the president realized he was becoming much to dictatorial.It is now the time to radically change how the foreign policies are formed and implemented because history is now proving that since the second world war, they are not working, one only has to look at Cuba which incidentally has the best health care system (also universal) in the world.How is the USA health care, is it Universal? Think deep people, the world is a much larger and complicated place than you think.You cannot progress without learning from history and the mistakes that where made.

Doug Mason 12:41PM January 16, 2009

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