theFewture is being sold

It now belongs to our kids. And our kids kids. And their kids. Not that it wasn't theirs anyway, but now their paying for it.

(Literally. Check. Figuratively? Check.)

WASHINGTON — The White House plan to rescue the nation’s financial system, announced on Tuesday by Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, is far bigger than anyone predicted and envisions a far greater government role in markets and banks than at any time since the 1930s.

Administration officials committed to flood the financial system with as much as $2.5 trillion — $350 billion of that coming from the bailout fund and the rest from private investors and the Federal Reserve, making use of its ability to print money.