Check the mirror

When I saw the Feb. 26 cartoon by Lisa Benson, I thought it referred to the dilemma facing college students who need to get loans to pay expenses and can’t find jobs to pay them off. My tuition was $125 per semester for state college in 1963 in Pennsylvania. I was able to cover my costs by working a minimum wage factory job each summer.

Today, tuition plus expenses are so enormous that students need loans.

Summer jobs, if they exist, aren’t much help. This leaves graduates with debts that resemble Marley’s ghost.

Then I noticed the term “OBAMANOPOLY” in the center of the game board. This totally changed its meaning. America faces many serious problems. We will never solve any of them so long as we blame them all on any one person. President Barack Obama is neither savior nor Satan; he is a politician with an impossible job.

We would do well to remember the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”: “The fault, dear Brutus (fellow citizen), lies not in the stars but in ourselves.” We Americans are the source and solution for most of our problems. The sooner we realize this the better we will fare.

David T. Webb

Spokane