These levels of spending are nothing short of willful treason.
Spending is a two pronged monster. It is both domestic and defense.
Remember, we didn’t drive the Soviet Union to collapse because of their domestic spending. We drove them to collapse because we forced them to keep their military budget at a level that they couldn’t sustain, that sucked their economy dry and so they collapsed.
If you’re going to fight wars then you’ll have to pay for it. I love tax cuts. I hate taxes. I will say right now Bush’s biggest mistake was cutting taxes while we were at war. There is a time and place for tax cuts. War is not that time. And before you attack me just consider how this country responded to WWI and II vs the current one. In both cases people were asked to sacrifice and they did. They felt a part of the war effort. As a result, you didn’t have people protesting either war. Bush never asked the American people to sacrifice.
If it was really all that important then he should have told the American people that there would be sacrifices and that we would be paying for it either through drastic service and employment cuts from the federal government or through measures to sustain revenue to fight the war.
Hell, even asking the American people to buy government bonds would have helped alleviate the situation but he didn’t even do that.