Cosentino: Tough questions need answers

Every candidate for federal office, whether presidential, vice presidential or congressional, needs to answer a post $700 billion bailout question #- what do they really think Washington can do #- on the three biggest spending issues facing the United States #- energy independence, escalating health care costs and investing more in necessary infrastructure improvements? Addressing any of the three will require outlays or tax incentives, both of which cost money, money that is clearly no longer there because of last week's bailout votes.