It can be traced right back to the careless policies and practices that fostered the housing bubble, putting people in homes they couldn't afford and allowing financial wizards to mask the risk by slicing and dicing loans to the point that they could no longer keep track of them.
The larger failure of McCain's party and its partisans was to adopt his intellectual stance to become equally careless about policy.
The senator was always too old to represent the GOP's future, and too ideologically ambidextrous to represent its past but most significantly, it turned out, he was indifferent, bored, careless with policies and ideas.
But in talking about the importance of education, the role of faith in his life and even the need for "tolerance and respect and dignity" for gays, Mr Bush belied the caricature of him as a careless ogre.On policy questions, little new was said.
To be sure, governing bodies in these schools have been careless to allow policies which aren't lawful to escape through their scrutiny, but the Department for Education has to take responsibility now.
Mr Zubov's articles and interviews, the institute said, "contradict Russia's foreign policy and inflict careless, irresponsible criticism on the actions of the state, thus causing damage to the teaching and educational process".
The university's statement explaining Zubov's dismissal claimed that his writings "contradict Russia's foreign policy and inflict careless, irresponsible criticism on the actions of the state, thus causing damage to the teaching and educational process".
Robert Misseri, Guardians of Rescue's president, called it "a tragedy that these faultless animals, whose only crime is being alive, must suffer the consequences of inadequate policies and indifferent and careless humans".
She is empty of purpose but full of unfocused goodwill, the mirror-image of American policy, her impulsive interventions well meant but essentially careless.
Unfortunately, public policies often get enacted out of moralistic and careless impulses that are politically expedient.
