George Rebane

A correspondent sends the nearby cartoon and reminds us again that if we judge the government by the same standards that its citizens are judged, then the government would be the biggest crook of all.  All this comes under the growing time-bombs of unfunded liabilities which are set to go off across the land in hundreds (thousands?) of counties, towns, cities, and, of course, the federal government.  The MSM uses the Madoff episode to discredit free market capitalism, and to distract us all from the real Ponzi schemes conducted everywhere that government acts as the employer.  While we feel sorry for the little guys whose money was invested with Madoff, we continue to ignore our own plight as the biggest suckers of all.