George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the U.S and served through 2001 and 2009. We could say that Bush’s term was arguably one of the hardest and darkest times of this nation, not because of his measures as a president but due to the external factors that affected the economy and its citizens (George W. Bush Biography. n.d). Eight months after Bush was elected, al-Qaeda extremist Islamic group executed the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of more than three thousand Americans and had economic costs of approximately $3 trillion (9/11 Attacks. n.d.), (The Cost of September 11. 2004). In response to these terrorist attacks Bush launched the “War on Terror” which took security and military spending to historic levels ($600-$800
