Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1
Number of all U.S. war veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003: 452,677
Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld’s vacation home: 25
Portion of all U.S. income gains during the Bush Administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 3/4
Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20
Number of incidents of torture on prime-time network TV shows from 2002 to 2007: 897
Number on shows during the previous seven years: 110
And finally, so many Republicans give FDR grief for all the government money he spent on the New Deal or LBJ for the New Society, well how about this:
Estimated amount Bush-era policies will cost the U.S. in new debt and accrued obligations: $10,350,000,000,000
I’d rather spend money on a New Deal or a New Society any day.
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