While the items you cite comprise the worst of Bush's presidency, their impact on (a) unemployment, (b) overall federal tax revenues, and (c) overall federal spending are minor.
When it comes to the current fiscal situation of the federal government, most of the blame falls on the massive increases in entitlement spending (Bush is complicit with Kennedy and the democrats that he embraced even while they were stabbing him in the back and screaming that the massive increases were draconian in their cruel inadequacy, and simultaneously savaging him for ballooning the deficit) in the areas of medicare/prescription drug benefits, federal education spending, and other programs.
Tax revenues increased as the economy grew for the first six years of Bush's term in office, but deficits grew because of bipartisan lust for even greater spending growth. Once the Pelosi/Reid congress took the reins in 2007, the economic growth stopped and the wheels predictably came off. The media, also predictably, covered for the democrats and blamed Bush.
Yes, I agree. Bush did wonderful things for the growth of federal government. Too bad it came at such a terrible cost to the US economy and American citizens.
Tax revenues increased as the economy grew for the first six years of Bush's term in office, but deficits grew because of bipartisan lust for even greater spending growth. Once the Pelosi/Reid congress took the reins in 2007, the economic growth stopped and the wheels predictably came off. The media, also predictably, covered for the democrats and blamed Bush.
The economic growth stopped because the real estate bubble, which Bush's anti-American, pro-Mexican illegal alien, policies helped fuel, burst.
So-called conservatives, also predicably, blame the democrats exclusively and absolve Bush completely.