Plugging the Virtues of Fiscal Responsibility

Two items of note this week on the economic crisis, from our own Public Agenda staffers:

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, authors of Where Does the Money Go?, shed some light in the Huffington Post this week on the proposed $700 billion Wall St. bailout and its implications for the Obama and McCain campaigns. Both presidential camps have said the bailout won't affect their policies, but it's hard not to be skeptical, with a looming $400 billion deficit -- projected by the CBO before the proposed bailout.

Also be sure to check out Forgive Us Our Debts author Andy Yarrow's op-ed piece in the Baltimore Sun -- a pointed primer on the fact that we are all, especially our kids and grandkids, affected by fiscal responsibility.