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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (77548)8/26/2006 8:11:23 AM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361543
 
Reality Check: The Numbers: One Year after Katrina

$10.7 billion Halliburton’s windfall, no-bid contract in Iraq, plus $16 million no-bid for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
$236 billion surplus from Clinton to Bush
$8.511 TRILLION current national debt to our children and grandchildren
$28.168 billion - how much Bush reneged on No Child Left Behind, leaving states and schools holding the bag
6.5 number of working Americans who have lost health insurance since Bush took office
$309 billion spent on Iraq war as of August, 2006
1804 Days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!'
0 number of weapons of mass destruction found

nationalpriorities.org

brillig.com

-- add your own numbers here. However you cut it, Bush has presided over the largest transfer of taxpayer dollars into private hands in the history of the world...and the beat goes on.