Dear Editor: Much Like Cancer Cells...

Dear Editor,

Much like cancer cells, the government, when diseased by corruption, waste, and abuse, consumes its own body. This is how a country living in a credit-driven economy meets its ultimate death. The economic model that allows unlimited credit for individuals and the government to live today on the promise of tomorrow's productivity has to have a reasonable expectation of that productivity to satisfy the debt. Add interest payments to the debt, a demographic implosion, and moral decline, and it's a perfect storm for the disaster that is facing the U.S. and its people.

Efforts to downs...