67K New Priv Sec Jobs, -121K Gov Jobs!

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I do hold Bush and his Administration more responsible for this more than anyone else.


When you start to think about the BILLIONS OF TAX-PAYER DOLLARS unaccounted for in regards to spending in Iraq, it should make your blood boil!

All of that, and WE STILL DID NOT GET THE UP-ARMORRED VEHICLES AND PROTECTION THAT WOULD SAVE THE LIVES OF SO MANY MORE OF OUR HEROES!

While the "private contractors" were paid how much to do whatever they were doing? Even if their "mission" was legitimnate the inequity was maddening.

Of course the comapnies that prospered most had connections to that Administration (formal or informal.)


Fact is, the buck stops with Bush, in my mind because as President, the economy took its turn for the worst while he was still in office. The buck always stops witht the President-- or it should.

I agree that the spending on the war was way too much and being spent in the wrong places. You say the buck stops with the Prez, but you can see by this admin. that is clearly doesn't. Bush, nor any Prez, can get something off the ground without the help of these branches. Was Bush perfect? No way. Was he a good Prez..I think so. He had to deal with something that no one ever has in this countrys history. A terrorist threat beyond anything we have ever seeen, a terroist attack of epic proportion on our own soil, trying to make sure it didn't happen again, etc. the list keeps going.

I am not saying that 100 year down the road the country will look back and say the GWB was a great American Prez like it does fro Lincoln and others. But Lincoln was didn't have a great approval after ending slavery which lead to his murder. If in 100 years this country remembers GWB for being a great Prez it wouldn't shock me. We look at Lincoln and say he was a great leader for how he dealt with what he was handed. Bush was handed something that no one ever imagined would happen. It is hard to see it now, but I think that Bush will end up being looked at as a good Prez. I could be wrong, but I wonder what we would have thought back in Lincoln's day?