A Clearer Perspective

“The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.” -Cicero. 106-43 B.C.

The saying goes that nothing is certain except death and taxes. In America, it seems nothing is certain except debt and taxes.

Our country is the victim of one of the biggest con games every committed, an epidemic spreading so fast that the chief auditor of the United States calls it a “fiscal cancer.” And it’s a disease that only now – with an economy on the brink of a recession, mounting inflation, rising unemployment, and a devalued dollar – is causing sufficient alarm.

Within the past week, New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent for the newspaper, Roger Cohen, has written two interesting opinion pieces relating Barack Obama’s family history, and the effect his presidency would have on world foreign relations.
Cohen, now reporting for the Times from Nairobi, Kenya provides an interesting angle on Obama as the next possible world leader by letting us gain a glimpse of the presidential race as seen from Obama’s country of heritage.His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in the Nyanza Province of Kenya and worked as a domestic servant to the British. Obama, now undoubtedly one of the most well-known faces in the world, was at that point just a little boy helping his father herd goats.