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#1. The longest run of uninterrupted job growth with 52 straight months and with 8.3 million jobs created. And this was after inheriting a recession and the attacks of 9/11.

#2. A real GDP growth increase of 17% which is higher than the last three decades.

#3. An 4.7% increase in the number of new business formed.

#4. After tax increased by 11% thanks to tax cuts. This amounted to tax relief for everyone, while raising the top 10% earners from 67% to 70% and removed 13 million low-income earners from paying taxes altogether.

#5 Economic growth and tax cuts gave way to the largest three year growth in Federal revenue in 26 years.

#6. 40 million Americans have experienced better access to prescription drugs while costing less than expected.

#7. The number of uninsured children under the age of 18 has declined by 800,000.

#8. The number of people covered by affordable and portable Health Savings Account-eligible plans increased 35 percent, while 1,200 community health centers have opened or expanded nationwide helping nearly 17 million people.

#9. Federal spending on education has increased nearly 40% and the Pell Grant funding nearly doubled for helping students to attend colleges.

#10. Since the No Child Left Behind, fourth-grade students have achieved their highest reading and math scores on record, eighth-grade students have achieved their highest math scores on record, and African-American and Hispanic students have posted all-time high scores in a number of categories, narrowing the gap between minority students and white students.

#11. The President created a worldwide coalition of more than 90 nations to combat terrorist networks established the Proliferation Security Initiative in helps of stopping the rise of WMD. Germany, France, and Italy have elected pro-American predidents.

#12 US has strengthened it ties with China, Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. North Korea is now committed to giving up its nuclear weapons and programs thanks to the push of Six Party Talks.

#13. The president has signed a historic civilian nuclear power agreement with India.

#14 There is a increase of 11 new countries with trade agreements with three additional agreements approved but not yet in force and three countries that are awaiting Congressional approval.

#15. President Bush has done more to improve health and security in the nations of Africa than any other president.

#16. Air pollution has decreased by 12 percent, and fine particulate matter pollution is down 17 percent since 2001.

#17. The president has provided $18 billion in research and develop for alternative and more efficient energy technologies.

#18. Ethanol production quadrupled , wind energy production has increased by more than 400 percent and solar energy capacity has doubled.

#19. The president established the worlds largest protected marine conservation area known as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. He also improved and protected the health of more than 27 million acres of Federal forest and grasslands, protected, restored, and improved more than three million acres of wetlands.

And I’ll make this the last one.
#20. Teenage drug use has declined 25 percent, in 2007 the violent crime rate was 43 percent lower than the rate in 1998, the chronically homeless population has decreased, funding for veterans' medical care has increased more than 115 percent, and as of 2005, the most recent abortion rate is at its lowest since 1974.

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