The truth lies at the doors of the Democratic Congress and Senate, who were voted in November 2006 for the gradual economic downfall of the American economy. The high cost of gasoline was the tipping scale that caused every business and citizen a tremendous expense to our individual lives and workings of our free market system. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid kept the drilling for oil stopped or prohibited at rich fields, when it would have brought hope and future release from foreign oil dependence. This was the beginning. Then, the housing mortgages debacle with the long list of Democrats involved for years erupted, causing financial failure to banks and mortgage companies which made the alarm on a world scale for the stock market failure. This was the second scale downward. Then there was passage of the stimulus plan that emptied the rest of our taxpayers money. From that, the bailout of the automobile companies take over is being controlled by the Deomocrat-controlled government.