Right now the House vote on buying “trust” for $700B is pending.

Much of that trust could be regained if professionalism and responsibility could be reintroduced into government. While I expect this is unfair and closely related to the hysteria that is gripping the nation, I can’t help but contrast the input and performance of the economists with that of Congress.

To that end, I agree with others that this heinous bill should be passed, but not for technical reasons. One has to balance the “slim silver lining” that the money will be repaid with a possible profit to the taxpayer base with the near certainty that some measure of trust will be re-established.

Whether it is a trip wire or a tight wire, it’s going to be a white-knuckle decade.

America will not fail, but only if we forget that it could.