Dialectical Immaterialism.

The President's program can be analyzed as an exercise in crude dialectics:
Infinite expenditure, infinitesimal revenues, equals total catastrophe.
The infinite expenditures are yoked largely to the so called "war on terror" and the expansion of police power here at home.
Despite the alleged conservatism of this Administration they have a boundless faith in big government's war-making potential and police powers.
The Bush tax cuts are designed to starve out of existence almost every other congressionally mandated government function, social security, Medicare, the space program, veterans benefits, pretty much the whole tamale.
Those are the government mandates the Bush ideology doesn't approve of, rather than fight it out with congress, he has chosen to simply suppress taxation so radically that these functions will have to cease to exist at some point lest the Government default on it's war debts.
Because that is the secret weapon of the "Bushian" dialectics, debt.
Essentially the nation we will be forced to sell off the social security system or the few remaining social safeguards out there to pay for our adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is why the President's cartoonish bellicosity has never been matched with an attempt to militarize the U.S. economy.
Even if the President was inclined to raise taxes, which he isn't, why would he give up a golden opportunity to destroy the federal social welfare infrastructure?
Bush is a revolutionary, plain and simple.
He is the first President raised and nurtured by the conservative counter-culture...his advisors and tutors, Rice, Rove, Rumsfeld are all themselves products of the organized conservative backlash of the 1970's.
Bush therefore has nothing but a brittle contempt for federal intervention in any social problems, which is a nice cover for his enduring hatred of poverty as an abstract condition. Despite his status as an old money avatar he is riddled with hateful projections onto fanciful elites whose activities he deems anti-American and unpatriotic.
Theirs is a de-evolutionary doctrine that literaly asserts that the economic infrastructure that characterized America in 1899 is a kind of earthly paradise.
Oh Bush doesn't rant and rave like Achille Starace or anything....but he does have an inflexible belief that men must fit the theory not matter what the cost in agony and woe.
The more worshipful sections of the press call him "focused"....which is a nice way of calling him a fanatic.
He won't be in office when the catastrophe comes if it does, but the consequences will be his and his alone.
Bush is fighting this war like his fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, through debt and financial trickery.
Johnson however pulled back at the last minute, signed a tax increase and sought peace in Viet Nam...even still the bulk of the economic malaise of the 1970's was due profligate war spending sans due consideration for revenues.
What Bush wants, even worse than he wants to "win" against terrorism, is a economic disaster worse than the stagflation of the 1970's....something so bad that some other suitable GOP demagogue can come to power on a promise to "get the gummint" off the backs of the people.
Never mind the fact that the government will be reduced to penury by then....
This hypothetical demagogue doesn't bother Bush one bit, his friends controlled his nomination and no doubt their successors will keep the riff-raff out of the N.H. Primary come 2016.
So this is conservative civilization as Bush defines it circa 2003 AD, zero taxes, and a dangerously utopian vision of unlimited opportunity that can only be created by social chaos and government collapse at home.
More and more the war is nothing but an engine by which the Bush admin will turn back the economic clock to the contented days of William B. McKinley.
"Lucky me" he smirked once he was done fleeing.