national debt

I’ll be writing a lot more about this in the upcoming issue, but at the risk of getting ahead of myself, I have to express my sadness at the goings on south of the border right now. The U.S. government is in the process of negotiating a bailout plan which will likely come in at close to double the cost of the Iraq war so far. We are told that this is regrettable but necessary in order to prevent worldwide financial Armageddon.