Dave Cuddy

We all know how we got to this fiscal mess. The challenge now is to work our way out of it, and for that we need more than politics as usual.

OK, so our nation is now in bankruptcy. How did we get here, what are the consequences, and what do we do about it?

A worried mother called my house at 8 p.m. Christmas Eve. "Is my daughter at your house? Have you seen my daughter?"

When we fail to research the issues, or research who our candidate choices are, we thumb our nose at our founders and at the future we should be leaving to our children.

For four decades we the American voters have asked our politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, to rapidly increase federal government spending, increase deficits, borrow more money and increase the national debt.

I had a great experience in 12 years in the Anchorage public school system. I think of Mr. Dutton, chemistry; Mr. Gruhn, physics; and Mr. McKelvey, my debate teacher at West High. They helped prepare me for college. Academic teachers. They gave me my A's and my letters of recommendation.

We were all watching the Wall Street bailout vote. Will it solve the housing bubble?