Government lacks faith in Americans

I do not think that this is the change that we can all believe in. From the bailouts of the banks and corporations, to the failure of the mainstream media to ask hard questions about a future national debt that my children will never get out of, things to me have gotten worse. I feel less safe with a president who seems to apologize to everyone about us being "arrogant" Americans. Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky called the Tax Day demonstrators "despicable." I see us as trying to please everyone and in the end pleasing no one. There is no sense of right or wrong and to me it has now become un-American to be an American. The tipping point for me was to hear Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security call our veterans a "security risk." The biggest result of all of this is a sense of enhanced entitlement and the current government's lack of faith in the American people - they truly think that government should socially and economically control everything. I believed that George W. Bush was a simple man who tried his limited best and that John McCain was not the most encompassing candidate, but an admirable man. Initially, I thought President Obama had huge potential to unify our nation's diversity, which should be our real wealth, but his flip-flopping on the treatment of terrorists at Guantanamo has led me to believe that everything has a secret political agenda above our national security and prosperity. I feel bad about this troubling epiphany of mine. The constant bickering I hear is endless. The bottom line is that we should do the right thing for the right reasons. America is the best country in the world and we should all stand tall and together - certainly not on bended knee and looking down, but at each other with respect and a sense of "we" instead of "you and me."

Andy Isaacson

Villa Park