Bush Family Packs Personal Belongings

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[ShanniC]

Why do you even both posting this link if you do not have the actual article on your site. Is this nothing but an aggregator of information?

[rabiddog6708]

From NBC's Mark Murray
A "Then and Now" to show what the United States looked like when Bush was entering office and what it looks like now as he's leaving.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)
Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING
Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, 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 INSURANCE
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, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

[ILibertine]

If we had a Congress this should have been five years ago. If we had an electorate (rather than the "collective standards of 300 million people"), it would have been four years ago.

[dax49]

i hope some- one will check the silver before he leaves- both he and his driving ace wife probably are light fingered judging from their characters

[lobear00]

The first thing that should have been packed was "George " himself. then sent him "No Return " to Russia.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Are there alarms behind paintings.

[Cappy]

Count the silverware!

[bokiluis]

The lights are turned on, the vacuum cleaners are running, trash bags are filling up at the door.....you have long overstayed your "unwelcome 8 years'!

Good bye and good riddance. Enjoy your "racist" new neighborhood.

[TheImpaler]

Will need a lot of Fabreze to eliminate stench of sulfur :-)

[WADIIAH]

woo hoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Schnitzel]

I hope somebody's keeping track of the antiquities; I'm sure the creep from crawford and his Peggy Hill wife are going to try to steal anything that isn't nailed down.

[scottowego]

better include the soap, towels and ashtrays on that list!

[bby328]

YES Please take the ashtrays and the as.strays also

[nupeace]

Move it along will ya?

[thinkagain2]

I will be as glad to see the last of Dana Perino as I am to bid good riddance to W. Sprint t the finish? Running to keep up? Just what other secret stuff is George doing that we should be aware of while he ignores the major issues facing the country and the world???

Perino is one of those sad figures who has no idea just how dumb she sounds when she's trying to justify her boss's existence.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Actually, Dana is kind of cute in a nerdy sort of way. I bet she ends up doing something on Fox, they love dumb blond stereotypes, at least Dana doesn't sport that dryed out bleached hair.

[rcampbell]

GET OUT!!! Don't pack, just leave---NOW!!!

[GJR227]

What is the one thing we all share in common with Laura?

[keepemhonest]

GJR: hmmm.... good question .... let's see Laura is: dillusional - in that she thinks her hubby was a good Pres, married to an ev/il man, enabler to her ev/il husband, a quiet but arrogant woman, ... hmmm....

Gee, I can't think of anything we "all" share in common with Laura B/ush

[GJR227]

Keep thinking. It will come to you.

[bokiluis]

We all got f'd by Bush.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Wild Turkey?

[BPCentrisAmerican]

There both LIARS?