America's Jobs Act (OT but matters to many)

The problem is historically all governments have large inefficiencies, ancient Israel, ancient Rome, Imperial Russia, Germany, Ottoman Empire. That is why we Repubs prefer the easier to evaluate and efficient private enterprise.

That is why we Repubs prefer the easier to evaluate and efficient private enterprise.

So now that leaves Iraq. Was that imperialistic or was that initiative defensive? It depends on who you believe. DID GW have valid reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) there while reality proved otherwise i.e. was it a legitimate belief which later proved wrong. OR......as you and others suggest, did he have good reason to understand that WMDs were not present and simply used it (knowingly) as an excuse to invade. I simply don't know, for sure, and neither does anyone else.

That is a fairly serious accusation which you and many others make absent hard core proof. We tend to favor the premise - in this "imperialistic" country of ours - that one is innocent until proven guilty. We all but speculate and put forth our best theories on that count. The "absolute truth" is yet to be uncovered, however. It is easy to call shots on life or death matters from the comfort of our homes, in our arm chairs, at our computers and after the fact. Hindsight is always 20:20.

I have not come to a final conclusion on that issue. If I am on that "jury" I need more evidence to convict. I have come to the conclusion that the job was VERY badly botched, once initiated, and much life/limb was squandered via incompetence at the top. On that level, I am not a Bush apologist. I often find myself wondering what other US leaders - past presidents or potential i.e. failed candidates - would have done

Ahem..... uh, your slip is showing. They might just come in handy, at times, preserving your freedoms and way of life. Some of them even died toward that end.

And then he still ran an enormous deficit and added Trillions to the debt. Where did all the money go???????? Who did profit under Ray-gun??????

In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.