Nice Job Bushie

TW: NBC published some before and after numbers for W. Bush. They are not surprising but they speak to the carnage a POTUS can bring.

From NBC:
Unemployment Rate
Then: 4.2% Jan 2001
Now: 7.2% Dec 2008 (and growing rapidly)

Dow Jones Avg.
Then: 10,587 Jan. 19, 2001
Now: 8,742 Jan. 9, 2009

Satisfied with nation's direction
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

Consumer Confidence
Then: 115.7 January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low December 2008

Families living in poverty
Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)

Americans without health care coverage
Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. Budget
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, CBO)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, CBO)

TW: and about one trillion $ spent on an illegitimate war in Iraq