Standing Fast

Debt is a problem that crushing the dreams and hopes of too many Americans. Last week, Sen. Hillary Clinton unveiled a new plan to help Americans get on the road in financial freedom. And she started in America's heartland.

Tom Vilsack is a former Governor of Iowa. At one point he was running for President but he dropped out because it cost way too much money. Money he didn't have. So much money that he was $400,000 in the hole when he decided to drop out in February. This was only after four months of campaigning. The newly unemployed Vilsack, harrased by collection agencies at all hours of the day and finding that repo men had taken his car, did not know where to turn.

Luckily, Sen. Clinton who also happens to be running for President and is sitting on more money than Scrooge McDuck decided to chip in and help old Tom out. What a pal.

In unrelated news, the newly debt free Vilsack endorsed the generous junior Senator from New York on Monday and encouraged his fellow Iowans who seems to have a big say who gets to be President to get behind her too. Vilsack is now living debt-free and faces every new day with the hope that financial freedom brings. Right after he puts on his "Hillary '08" button.