Essential reading before Nov.2

The Nation has compiled a list of 100 facts on what the Bush adminstration has actually done in these four years, basing each fact on at least one independent press source (quoted with URL). Here are some samples (I haven't bothered to duplicate the source links, find them in the article):

9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.

25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is screened.

40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.

43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.

46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.

49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.

Please read the article - and then think for two or three seconds - before voting.