Just Numbers

The T minus W counter widget on my desktop tells me that we have 315 days 01 hour 36 minutes and 40 seconds  until George W. Bush is no longer President of the United States.

To say that I am excited about this would be a severe understatement. I just wonder what will be left of this country by the time he and his cronies are finished.

A gallon of gasoline in Seattle costs:

$3.49

Number of homes in the U.S. in foreclosure is (approximately):

900,000

Cost of War in Iraq:

$501,572,801,307 but by the time I post this it will already be so much higher!

U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq (nearing):

4,000. (A number that seems small in comparison with the dollars spent but you just cannot compare...)

U.S. Soldiers injured in Iraq (approximate since govt. and independent counts do not jive):

60,000

Iraqi deaths:

700,000

U.S. National Debt:

$9,400,243,111,402.08

Amount US Debt increasing daily:

1.69 BILLION

Amount of debt per each person in the U.S. today:

$30,962.29

Numbers of times I cry every day:

At least 1