LOWRY: A trillion-dollar standard

What is it going to take to get Washington to understand that you can't keep borrowing trillions of dollars into infinity? There have been other civilizations and other nations that have tried the exact same things in one form or another that Obama is trying. The end result ultimately for these societies is either anarchy, disintegration, or dictatorship. In aircraft accident investigations, the FAA describes the "poor judgment chain" leading up to the mishap in which one bad decision by the pilots leads right into another. American is heading down a poor judgment chain right now with these ill-conceived bailouts and fanciful stimulus schemes.

Government taxes rely on business to keep them going. When the government is the business, isn't that like tearing down muscle when you are trying to burn fat in losing weight.