I like numbers; what do you like?

1.75 trillion - budget deficit, 1/2 of which will be reduced over the next 4 years.

0 - how many subsidies farmers making over 1/2 million will receive. (Yay!)

5 vs 95 - (annual income of less-than vs. more-than $250,000) percentages of the Obama-designated class divide.

2011 - year tax increases (or, really, just rescinded tax breaks from Bush 2 that will help rich people pay their share--see 4.6 below) take effect on the above %5.

4.6 - the percentage of the increase. Seriously? Everybody (of the 5%; i.e., individuals making 200,000 and household making more than $250,000 a year) needs to stop being such dicks. C'mon, really? That's $9,200 more a year for a single person making over 2 hundred thousand. Really, you're going to bitch about that when we're supposed to be concerned our whole society might be falling a part? Get a grip.

For someone making $1 million, 4 times the lowest in the percentile, that's $46,ooo--enough for an education at a decent school and good health insurance. Oh please, Mr. Millionaire, send a poor kid to college; especially if you don't have your own. Won't that make you feel good?

Well, honestly, I don't really care if it does, but you owe us, man. Since the time of Regan, you've had tax cuts and loopholes and tort reform and a sharp decline in crime (and yet somehow, an ever growing prison population--hm, failed War on Drugs, anyone?) and high-end condos and Trader Joe's in cool neighborhoods (see decline in crime) and cocaine and the BlackBerry, nay iPhone.

x>0 - pictures taken of returning war dead.

2 new members (possibly) of Congress = DC + Utah

100 - the % of existing-home sales in CA increased in the past year. That's kind of good news, right?