What are We Protecting?

"We have been told that we can be rescued from our financial woes by a massive infusion of money. We have been told that all means must be employed to protect our way of life. But why are we not being asked to take a hard look at our way of life? Perhaps it is precisely this way of life that has brought us to such dire straits." Mark T. Mitchell, Without Borders, Ltd., Touchstone Magazine April 2009