How we slept during the current storm

I must admit that I am dismayed at the way our president has circumvented public opinion polls to pass the recent health care reform. There was absolutely nothing transparent about the process and it certainly was not the change that I can believe in.

I agree that there are portions of the bill that will help Americans, but there are far too many areas where we as a nation will suffer further down the road. The federal government now has taken control of health care, banks, insurance, auto manufacturing, student loans, energy taxes and on and on. The newly emboldened leader of our nation now believes that we should undertake immigration reform. Perhaps he cannot hear the alarm clock ringing; before all else, we need the unemployment rate to decrease and begin to manufacture jobs.

Hiring 20,000 additional IRS employees is not progress. The public should get up and turn the alarm off, instead of the snooze. Instead of uniting America as was promised by many and hoped for by all, this president has succeeded in polarizing the nation to a level not seen in decades. I urge all to "remember in November," and as Thomas Jefferson said; "think with your head instead of your heart." We need to be a nation of facilitating and not enabling. If we fail to undertake this endeavor, we may cease to be the greatest nation in the world. Our children will wonder how we slept through the current storm.

Andy Isaacson

Villa Park