A few statistics on the morning after the State of the Union Address (in which the members of Congress broke in with applause 70 times in 54 minutes):

$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that George W. Bush became President in 2001

$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003

2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration

1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000

$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of President Bush's original 16-person cabinet

$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001

43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002

From The Independent

Thanks to my sister Patty for the article.