Or Else

The bail-out, rescue, or buy-in is finally before the US House for a vote. The mother of all debts might be assumed by taxpayers. $700,000,000,000. $ 2,300 for every man, woman & child in America. Thank God John McCain suspended his commercials for a few days or we'd really be screwed..


If Congress doesn't pass a bill immediately, there will be hellfire, damnation, locusts, plagues, mushroom clouds, melting polar ice caps, clean coal, nuclear waste, global warming, and gas shortages. The Grapes of Wrath. The politics of fear.


Since so few Americans, including myself, most reporters and members of Congress, can wrap their brains around the scope of the financial crisis, it's hard to have confidence in any hastily proposed solution.