Debt Rattle, December 1 2008: Trying to avoid the unavoidable, but at what cost?

National Photo Co. Bud 1924Helen G. Sweeney, Adolph Busch, Joseph Gallegher, Henry GlynHelen, who as Miss Washington represented the District of Columbia in the 1924 Miss America pageant, was also Miss Treasury Department that year. She's shown here in front of the Treasury building in a nautical-themed car bearing the insignias of Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser, promoting the company's beverages