Our leaders cannot be at odds with each other

The cartoon that was published Feb. 26 is a good example of the disease that is being perpetrated on the American people. We are all at odds with one another on one thing or another — jobs, gun control, gay marriage, immigration, birth control, government spending us into oblivion, rising cost of health care, and so on.

We should properly estimate the immense value of our national union to our collective and individual happiness; we should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustom ourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium to our political safety and prosperity. We must be vigilant against the first drawing of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest.

It is time for our leaders to do great good things. Set the example. Give up their campaign chests; their pensions, their lobby money, cut spending and pay the bills. Take responsibility — each and every one of you — Democrats and Republicans — you got us here in the first place.

Sheila DeLattre

Arlington Heights