Bush by the Numbers

$5.6 TRILLION — federal budget surplus for fiscal 2002-2011, projected by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, when Bush was sworn in.

$3 TRILLION — surplus that would remain — after shoring up Medicare and Social Security for the next 75 years — if President Bush didn't cut taxes for the wealthy, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

$726 BILLION — cost of President Bush's tax reductions through 2013, later cut to $350 billion by a Senate vote of 51-48.

$304 BILLION — budget-deficit forecast for the current fiscal year, not counting the cost of the war in Iraq.

$300 BILLION — cost of war in Iraq and its aftermath from now through 2005, according to Independent Strategy, a British consulting firm.

$79 BILLION — approved by Congress to pay for the war in Iraq — through the remaining six months of the current fiscal year.

$489.3 MILLION — request to Congress just to cover the cost of repairing damage to Iraq's oil facilities — much or all of which could go to Halliburton where Vice Pres. Dick Cheney was CEO.

$330 MILLION — amount for hiring police officers nationwide that the Bush budget would eliminate; it includes $24.8 million for New York City, which would have gotten as many as 330 additional officers.

8.5 MILLION — total number of unemployed, in December — that's 2.5 million more than when the President took office in January 2001.

750,000 — number of jobs that would be lost, according to the Economic Policy Institute, if the Bush "economic stimulus" plan of massive tax cuts for the rich is approved.

$90,222 — average tax cut for households with incomes over $1 million that Bush's proposed tax cut would provide.

$380 — average tax cut under Bush's proposal for those with incomes of $40,000 to $50,000.

$0 — refund that would go to 31 percent of taxpayers nationwide if the Bush tax cut plan is approved,says Citizens for Tax Justice.