Impoverished times offer valuable lessons. Unfortunately, the Great Recession isn't about what we've learned. It’s about what we've unlearned. Read my column @ Human Events on how the economic downturn has made the staid establishment sound like a nuthouse.

If my neighbor was financing my spending and I was paying for nothing, I too would give a fat rat's ass how much I spent or how much I had to borrow to spend more.

That's our government - kid's in the Federal candy store.