Add to that, GWB was supposed to be some sore of financial wiseman because of his MBA from Harvard. Under him, savings on CDs went from about 5% with Clinton to near-zero. It was supposed to be temporary, to pay for GWB's disgusting global warmongering. Now, the nation has debt out-of-control, the middle class all but destroyed, and no "power of compounding" for people to save for the future. It's hard to imagine how the nation comes back to where it was before the GWB presidency. There's no way for the middle class to recover.
GWB could've gone in either direction after 911, either national self-sufficiency or trying to change the world. He made the wrong choice. What kind of fool would think they could change the world, but not protect national sovereignty and economic independence?