Let's put these people in charge of health care, too.

“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.” - Lewis Carroll

In the Denver Post article “Governor gave no-bid deal to former partners,” we find a Lewis Carroll-worthy absurdity from our state government:

Ritter has also used the federal funds to hire five employees for a total of $349,000 to help Don Elliman oversee stimulus money. Elliman, with the new title of chief operating officer, makes $146,034 a year.

State workers are facing furlough days and are amid freezes in hiring and pay, but Myung Oak Kim, spokeswoman for the governor's economic recovery group, said the hires don't violate the spirit or the letter of that policy. Federal taxpayers — not state taxpayers — are signing their checks.

That clears that up. As long as it is federal taxpayers paying for the state’s excess, everything is good. But if state taxpayers pay for the state’s excess, then that is bad.

For that to even begin to make sense, state taxpayers and federal taxpayers would have to be completely different people. Unfortunately for our state intellectuals, they are not. Unbeknownst to the governor's office, Colorado residents also pay federal taxes.

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. “ -Lewis Carroll.