That might be true if we were spending the money on the means to survival. Hover most of it is being wasted. Tell me, if you were worrying about survival would you go out and rack up massive credit card debt on stereos and dvds?
oh, so George Bush doubled spending on the department of education from 30 billion to 60 billion because we are worried about survival. That's a fascinating insight. This DOE has a bunch of 6 figure bureaucrats in extremely expensive washington dc area and it's for our nation's survival, I see. Sixty billion is enough money to give 10 million kids $6,000 per year vouchers. Bush could've taken the 5 or 10 worst big city school districts and given each kid in that district a voucher that would buy an education in a private market. But he needed to give it to bureaucrats for our nation's survival. The strategies this GWB guy has for our nation's survival are fascinating.
Which is exactly why Ali Bubba Bush started this war. He had mid-term elections coming up,and needed the country to rally around him at a time when the economy was going in the dumps and his poll numbers would have came down. As a result he blamed Iraq for what his family friends in Saudi Arabia are guilty of. It's a win/win situation for him. His poll numbers go up as people use the excuse you use to ignore the economy,his friends in Saudi Arabia get protected,as well as Israel getting protected,too. This is likely to bring him a few Jewish votes in 2004.
Meanwhile,the price of oil will continue to rise,puttting the economy further in the dump,while personally enriching the Bush family as their oil company stocks pay dividends and goes up in value.
But,HEY! What are the value of the deaths of tens of thousands of people when it comes to comparing that to the re-election of Ali Bubba,and making him and his friends even richer?