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Published: 10/1/08

Playing Politics with Economic Fire

By  David Knowles - Politics Daily
Playing Politics with Economic Fire

What we've witnessed over the course of the last week is something of a perfect storm. With the financial sector teetering on the brink, and election year politics in full swing, reason, foresight, and an orderly distribution of life preservers, have been sacrificed for tantrums of the here and now. Who is to blame for the economic mess we are only starting to glimpse? Everyone. You, me, Wall Street, the Bush Administration, Congress, television pundits, the whole lot of us. A pox on all of our houses! Americans have long been living on credit. Not just the poor, who often didn't qualify in ...

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