What concerns me is the many similarities that the US is beginning to show to the late Roman Empire. Someplace I read a comparison of this current Congress with the Senate of Nero and Caligula, and while we don't have a horse in the US Senate, there certainly is enough corruption and influence peddling on Capital Hill to make anyone sick.

Are we due to have a big decline a la Rome? Hopefully enough people get upset with the way things are going to make some kind of change before things get to that point.