Booker on Values, Liberties, Oversight and the bailout

by: Jason Springer

Sat Sep 27, 2008 at 11:58:33 AM EDT

In the time of crisis, one should cling more tightly to his fundamental values not abandon them.  In the face of terrorist attacks, you don't surrender your civil liberties or those things that make us American.  In a financial crisis, you don't just turn over billions of dollars in taxpayer money with little or no oversight -- lax oversight and abusive judgment helped fuel the problem to begin with.