As we count down the days until he leaves office and can't do any more harm, propublica.org has launched "Bush by the Numbers" to calculate just how bad it's been. It's interactive, so if you have additional statistics to add, with sourcing, of course, because this is propublica.org, now eligible for a Pulitzer Prize nomination, go to the site and submit your favorite Bush stats.
Start weeping!
The National Debt rose from $7.1 to $10.6 trillion in just eight years. Our children and grandchildren will be reeling from this mismanagement. Well, the entire world is reeling now.
As the unemployment rate rose, so did the percentage of Americans without health insurance. That figure rose from 14% to 15%.
High school graduation rates rose, that was surprising, due in part to the poor economy and to "No Child Left Behind," which did put pressure on poor performing schools. In 2000-2001, 71.7% of students graduated. Last year 74.4% did. One for W!
Two figures are extremely telling. First, the number immigrants deported from the US rose from 110,000 in 2001 to 350,000 in 2008.
And perhaps the most telling of this secretive and incompetent government is this figure: Freedom of Information requests increased from 2.2 million in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration, to 21.8 million in 2007.
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