It’s a hard truth for Americans to face that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

Editor’s Note: Lew Rockwell is a died-in-the-wool libertarian. He says this recession is a correction to an overly pumped economic boom. It is not an aberration crying out for correction. It is the result of an unsustainable economic bubble that preceded it. Lew says it should be welcomed in the same way we welcome a sober day after a drunken evening, or the detoxification of an addict after a period of addiction.

Mr. Dunkelberg is more direct, and says that people who depend on their little bits of interest that they make on their saved money ‘are being screwed by the Fed’…