Bush Leaving $490 BILLION Deficit For Next Prez

The new president will get a very special gift from the George W. Bush Administration next year: an all-time record deficit of $490billionAmerican dollars, or "nine Euros." Before Bush took office in 2001 -- and we do mean "took," har har! -- the federal budget deficit didn't exist, but there was asurplusof $230 billion in the budget. [ Bloomberg ]