Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Finance, the economy & Economics How will the financial crisis develop?

It's incumbent upon all political and financial journalists at this moment to remind Americans that every dollar spent in a bailout goes on our tab to the Chinese and other foreign investors. Somebody has to pay them back some day. One of the great crimes of misinformation in the George W. Bush era is that neither the cost of wars nor the cost of these bailouts gets counted on the official national deficit number. It's as if Enron and Lehmann Brothers accountants are working in the Office of Management and Budget. Who knows? Maybe they are. This is what we get for having a president with an MBA.