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**draigenia** · 11-09-2010, 03:30 PM

How is that distinguishable from the national debt? It would seem to me that it is part of the national debt.

I think he's saying the debt is the biggest threat. Our response to 9/11 was massive spending on two wars and cutting of taxes - which feeds right into our biggest threat ... the national debt. Other than a few billion dollars of lost assets and businesses, we could have continued after 9/11 without bankrupting the country. Yet bush and the congress decided to blow TRILLIONS of dollars in response to a billion dollar problem.

Bin Laden's belief is/was that the US economic strength is built like a house of cards. Push on it hard enough and it will collapse easily. Our spending and lack of fiscal responsibility after 9/11 might actually lead to the situation that Bin Laden envisioned, not because of the cost of rebuilding after 9/11 but because of our politicians spending ridiculously beyond our means.

11-09-2010, 03:30 PM	#11
draigenia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 534 Senior Member	How is that distinguishable from the national debt? It would seem to me that it is part of the national debt. I think he's saying the debt is the biggest threat. Our response to 9/11 was massive spending on two wars and cutting of taxes - which feeds right into our biggest threat ... the national debt. Other than a few billion dollars of lost assets and businesses, we could have continued after 9/11 without bankrupting the country. Yet bush and the congress decided to blow TRILLIONS of dollars in response to a billion dollar problem. Bin Laden's belief is/was that the US economic strength is built like a house of cards. Push on it hard enough and it will collapse easily. Our spending and lack of fiscal responsibility after 9/11 might actually lead to the situation that Bin Laden envisioned, not because of the cost of rebuilding after 9/11 but because of our politicians spending ridiculously beyond our means.
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