I'm not about to say that 9/11 was a conspiracy by the US government (although there are pressing questions that need answers regarding the current theories of how and why it happened), but it certainly used the attacks as an excuse to create power strongholds in Asia (look into the Project for the New American Century sometime). You make the mistake of assuming that our leaders are genuinely much more concerned with the lives of everyday people than they are in their own pocketbooks, and are not willing to set the people as a lower priority in order to fatten their wallets, satisfy the HUGE numbers of corporate lobbyists in Washington, or just to help the economy. There is no incentive for Bush to care about what regular people think anymore. He's already been elected and barring extreme circumstances he is guaranteed to be President for the next couple of years. However, there IS incentive for him to help out corporations, particularly the ones he and his buddies get money from. We can't assume that someone is free from the temptation of money just because about half the population thinks he's the better of the two candidates rich enough and powerful enough to run for president.