The events of September 11, 2001 amounted to unfathomable costs, in terms of lives and families forever torn apart, not to mention the physical and emotion after effects that continue to haunt the survivors of 9/11. In addition to that, there was an economic cost to 9/11 — one that is almost equally unfathomable.
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, recently wrote about the economic cost of 9/11. He was with President George W. Bush on September 11, 2001, and remembers his experience that day.
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Now only if we can get a nickel and dime assessment of the stimulus, Obamacare and other entitlement spending in the last 30 months like we can with post 9/11 national security which is something the Federal government is supposed to do according to the US Constitution.
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