Jeebus. Is there anyone who made money the old-fashioned honest way in recent years?

Seriously, this is just the latest in a loooong parade of embezzlement cases here. Has the pressure to keep up with the Joneses been so great in Lancaster County that we should have so many people accused or convicted of doing this?

Whatever is going on at the national level, with the Madoff business or whatever - it’s happening here too, and on a scale I haven’t seen in my years here. It makes you think that the economic “success” of the past decade or so was an utter and complete fabrication, almost across the board. Financed by ever-rising levels of debt; financed by theft, all of which comes into the open and back to bite us as the edifice falls away.