"We Have to Protect Our Phoney Baloney Jobs Here, Gentlemen!"

Does volunteerism threaten to break the back of our delicate service economy? Are Unions really frightened of the Boy Scouts?

Do we have an obligation to hire others to perform ordinary tasks for us, and if so, was raking my own leaves an affront to the spirit of Economic Recovery?

Perhaps, instead of painting my own house, I should have hired a painting crew and used that time to secure new credit cards and run up balances on them, like a good American.