I thought we had ushered in the age of 'less' government.

A renown surgeon was teaching her students a very difficult procedure. "You have less than a minute to tie off this artery or your patient will bleed to death," she said, "...so hurry up and take your time."

Will those who believe that charity is the only way to take care of the poor, still believe that when they become poor? How rich do you have to be to believe that the bailout is not a good idea? Given the fact that the party in power almost always gets blamed for bad economic times - how far ahead would Barack Obama be in the polls if he were white?

Why have people been saying, "Now is not the time to assign blame and point fingers?"

Are we to honestly believe that no one is to blame? What happened to accountability?

Why doesn't either candidate say - "I know what I've told you my economic strategy is, but these circumstances call for a new game plan and I'm working on one." Have we gotten to the point where thoughtfulness is not a quality we want in a president?

Did our president really have to wait for 'the experts' to tell him that the markets were 'linked' and that 'ordinary people' would be hurt? When you were in school, how much time did you spend counting in trillions?

The start of the 21st century seems eerily like the start of the 20th century, only with better technology. What does it tell us when a crisis is so deep that there is only one plan? What would the country do if we couldn't borrow $700 billion?

When all the experts tell us that the number of people classified as poor is growing by the thousands every year, why has there been no urgent action called for?

How much are our children learning about economics in school? In times like these who do people who don't trust in God trust?