Fear of president's policies not ‘gloom'
I read the Jan. 26 Yuma Sun editorial on the State of the Union address and was very disappointed that you concluded we are either “a nation of optimism or gloominess.”
In a song by singer Ray Stevens titled “Everything is Beautiful,” one of the lines says, “No one is so blind as he who will not see.” You sadly mistake the American people’s FEAR of President Obama’s policies, leading us down the road to socialism, for gloom. We see it and we don’t like it!
The Constitution of the United States of America is one wholly based on the freedom of the individual, the freedom to make choices not to be required to buy an insurance policy we don’t want; the freedom to work hard and succeed not be told everybody has to be equal; and the freedom to gain wealth and not be required to give to those who won’t work (I said won’t, not can’t, work).
The news media in general, and the Jan. 26 editorial in particular, deftly casts the Republicans as negative obstructionists. Am I the same when I grab my child’s hand and say NO to keep them from burning themselves on a hot stove?
The Republicans are currently in the minority in the U.S. Senate and as a result legislation passed by the Republican House that could fix at least some of our economy is killed by the obstructionist Democrat Senate.
Yes, the lack of cooperation in our nation’s Capitol will likely continue this year. But that is what is called, in the headline of another article in the same issue of the paper, “civil engagement.” What will happen in Congress this year is better than the death and destruction we are remembering in that article.
The editorial is correct we are a divided country — some are awake, some are daydreaming and some are asleep. Only if Obama’s policies are continued for another four years will America turn that feared corner to socialism and then the America I love will ultimately disappear. Then and only then will you be correct that we will be a nation of gloom. Wake up America!
Don Schellenberg
Yuma
