FDR, LBJ ... GWB?
Roosevelt launched the New Deal and, with war clouds approaching, began to build the country's depleted military.
Johnson tried to create a Great Society and wage a War on Poverty while plunging the country deeper into the Vietnam morass.
Bush commits massive but so far unspecified federal resources for Gulf Coast rebuilding as 140,000 U.S. troops remain in a bloody and expensive conflict in Iraq.
Roosevelt and Johnson, more than any two presidents of the 20th century, expanded the scope of the federal government. Bush is on that path as well.
Does he have any choice? Isn't this what we want?
But what about paying for it all?
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