Lewis Carroll was right all along

These are "Through The Looking-Glass" and "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" times for the United States of America. The obvious is blurred by smoke and the questionable is clear as glass. I think one's sanity must be considered in terrible danger. Poor Alice - poor us.

Alice: "It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits."

Replace "mice and rabbits" with congressmen/women and senators and you begin to see the larger picture.

Of course, to complete this picture, consider the unlimited and unending encouragement from our president for "change" and his continual damning of our free markets driven economy; and in his tenacious dedication to a community orientated and socialized economy and with a fierce arrogance thinks that he, rather than all the rest of us, can solve every economic "crises", real or unreal.

The Queen: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

How much are we willing to give up for the security we seek. That is the question each and everyone of us must answer. Just remember this: There is no free lunch. Somebody always pays. Personally, I don't expect anyone else to buy my lunch at the point of a gun.

The Queen: "That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first-----"