A House of Cards

It's been a number of years since I even attempted a house of cards.  As a matter of fact, it's been so many years, I didn't even have a full deck when I decided this article needed illustrations . . . It could be the lack of a full deck will make this illustration to be an even more accurate comparison to the economic house of cards we have built in Washington DC.

On a house of cards, it is impossible to build upward without a ceiling.  But it can continue to expand outwardly.

Add a ceiling and it's possible to add another "story" [pun intended] to the house of cards.

Outward, upward and onward . . . It just becomes so easy to see how bureaucracies expand with agencies to more programs . . .

And here we have more expansion . . .

But the ceiling has a hole . . .

No problem, we don't need a full ceiling to get building and expanding again . . .

Well, maybe we do, after all!

Keep in mind, this house of cards was first established on a flat solid surface, not a hole of debt . . .