From an Ordinary Point of View
By: Eli Odem

America is under stress. We are divided by many issues. Domestically we are a mess. We are deeper in debt than ever in our history. Moral issues have taken center stage, instead of the issues that made America strong. Our leadership has taken sides with big business and the result is that average citizens, who are eighty percent of Americans, are having a tough time making ends meet even with two jobs. Will the middle class survive? Can our government solve the problems with our economy, education, social security and Medicare? Will Iraq continue to drain our much-needed resources? Has our leadership chosen paths that have isolated us from the rest of the world? Will terrorism ironically win because we lose our civil rights in the process of being secure from terrorism? Has our leadership lost its focus on what is important to our citizens and our future? We need to re-evaluate our State of the Union because it is not strong.