Who blew up a city?
Our government does exist to protect the people
There is a very fine shade of difference between "protecting" the people and merely providing for a common defense.
As far as I am concerned, the Federal government failed on all counts on September 11, 2001.
Bush spent Trillions to keep us safe
How many of those trillions were used for nation-building and foreign aid give-aways?
How many of those trillions were used for his pet projects that expanded the Federal government, e.g., Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind?
Obama on the other hand is recklessly spending money on things like Stimulus that didn’t work
The first stimulus in 2008 was authorized by Bush.
It didn't work either.
There are huge differences in Why a president spends money
I don't care any more WHY you are spending MY future money.
I do care that you stop spending MY future money, PERIOD.
If you want to engage in significant military action around the world that includes nation-building, then stop perpetrating accounting chicanery on the American electorate and directly increase taxes to pay for the war instead of indirectly increasing taxes via deficit spending and long-term inflation.
We disagree, I see Iraq as more a strategic success in the GWOT, I understand why Bush went there completely and thank God that he did and it doesn’t matter to me how much money he spent to do it because my family is priceless, Just like I don’t mind how much Obama spends to send troops to Afghanistan or how much the government spends arming our troops, don’t care because that is exactly what I want my tax dollars used for. Same reason I want a fire marshall to condemn buildings and firemen and policemen to be well armed and vigilant and available in my neighborhood.
You apparently are a hardcore Libertarian so we won’t find common ground on many issues.
However, you would be remiss and possibly a troll if you didn’t find fault in the trillions of wasted dollars that OBAMA has spent, and the absolute nonesense of this Healthcare debacle that is going to cost multiple trillions in entitlement fees.
The whole purpose of the article wasn’t for you to BASH BUSH you poor BDS sufferer. It was to show you just how utterly out of touch and incompetent the DEMOCRAT majority controlled marxist government of the USA has become.