This is in response to Mr. Bruce Wilson’s letter in the June 7 edition of The News Courier. I agree to disagree with you about this discussion; it has come to a head on both sides. Most Americans who support President Obama do so because they believe in his policies and nothing else. Most people will try to make more out of it than it is, but that is it. The messiah complex comes from the media and people looking from the outside in. There is only one messiah that I know.

You think he is going to ruin the country. That sounds like someone from the far right who has only one thing to consider. I was going to leave this issue alone, but you included me in your response to Mr. Benard Simelton’s letter. You think that every retired military person is lonely. You are so wrong. I am in the majority when it comes to not being lonely. If you think like that, you are in the minority. Like I said in my previous letter, the military is not dictated by policy, but by order.

Like I have said before, President Obama did not start the ruination (as you say) that has befallen the U.S. When are you going to admit that the last administration was at fault from the get go? What happened when he got elected? Gas prices came down. I bet you were not complaining then. GM was ruined way before he got into office and you know it. If the CEO of these companies cannot run them, then someone has to baby-sit them to make sure they do the right thing.

The lieutenant colonel (Simelton) does not have to apologize for speaking what is on his mind. You think just because he served in the military he has no opinion. I’m pretty sure he has been in more high-level meetings than you can ever imagine. But that is how most people view service members. Nobody is a going to tag you a socialist except yourself. If that is the moniker you want, that is all on you. You can support whomever you want, but when you start picking out faults, we all can do that back to the last president. Go to south Huntsville and see what varied opinions you get.

The left is not going to stay docile and let things go. We are going to continue to voice opinions and share views.

Sincerely,

Terrence W. Crooks

Athens

Immigrants stealing jobs

Dear Editor:

President Obama and the Democratic Congress have passed a financial fiasco that the president claims will add two or three million new jobs in the next two years. Yet, even more jobs can be made available, immediately, with the cooperation of Congress and a stroke of the president's pen.

This would be a federal law that requires all businesses of any size, in the United States, to use the government’s E-VERIFY system to check all current and proposed employees standing as legal citizens or legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Non-complying businesses should be heavily penalized. This position is supported by WVNN's Dale Jackson, Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal columnists, and millions of taxpaying, legal citizens of all colors and backgrounds.