End of 'age of irresponsibility'?
- 26 Sep 08, 04:22 PM
Washington DC: The "age of irresponsibility" must be ended, so said the prime minister at the United Nations this morning. It is language with which the son of the manse feels comfortable.
Here in Washington, Congress, under pressure from their angry constituents, is resisting the president's plea to foot the bill for that age of irresponsibility.
Politicians find themselves in a terrible bind. Either they have to ask their hard-pressed voters to pay for the rich bankers' errors or, they're told, the banks will go under leaving those same voters without their savings, homes and jobs. Who says it's easy being a politician?
