I agree with your post. Spending should go down. But given 9/11, the collapse of corporations, the collpase of the dot coms, Katrina, Rita, and two wars, that’s quite a basket full.
He did inherit a lot so to speak, but that only begs the question, why would he have committed to all this non related and non essential spending? The hurricane relief shouldn’t be a federal issue IMO; arguably we should have finished up Afghanistan before Iraq was started; the recession was mostly “managed” by the fed and quite poorly IMO. They pumped in money and held down interest rates. A recession SHOULD be painful because that is the only way to get rid of it. Instead we keep putting band aids and taking pain medication to cover up the issue. Not totally Bush’s fault I’m just noting.
I’m not saying the guy is the anti-Christ, just that he has been a disappointment and that we shouldn’t settle for mediocrity. JMO