Obama as Nero

I hate to say this, having voted for him, but when I hear "President Obama," I think Nero. Practically all most of us know about Nero was that he fiddled while Rome burned, a fire he likely was responsible for.

I guess America could be thought of as the Rome of the modern era, and it isn't literally burning, but "burning" is a good metaphor.

There are many elements coming together to cause this metaphoric conflagration. For openers, the economic is still is disarray, and unemployment is over 10 percent. Foreclosures have put many of our neighbors out on the street.

Congress is about to raise the national debt ceiling again, meaning we'll be in debt for generations. The government is bleeding money, but none of it seems to be putting people to work.

It turns out that billions are going south over to Mexico to fuel the drug cartels and their wave of violence. At the same time, we have teens wandering around the streets of our cities carrying loaded guns and shooting each other, along with any innocent bystander who happens to get in the way.

These are problems that need to addressed right now, problems we could spend some of the billions we are collectively going into debt for. Why doesn't that seem to be happening?

It seems that while America is in a melt down, President Obama is fiddling around in Afghanistan and Iraq, throwing billions of our tax money at wars of choice. That's right, choice. These countries aren't attacking us, and the people there would probably be less hostile toward us if we'd just go away and leave them alone.

But no, we send the money that could put people to work, and now our young men and women sign up to be cannon fodder in order to be able to earn a living. At the same time we are bribing the "enemy" not to blow up our supply caravans, and we're paying foreign countries to be our "friends" and to take our side.

Let's see, we only have two viable political parties, and they both believe in wasting our resources on endless wars of choice, rather than help our people, and all we can do is sit here and watch Rome burn.