This country was founded on the principles that the people are in control of the government — of the people, by the people and for the people.

Today, the government is so massive it controls every aspect of people’s lives. And the people allowed it. People are no longer in control.

Forty-seven percent of the citizenry are on some form of government handout — welfare, free medical or food stamps.

Voting booths are rampant with fraud. Only the liberals believe otherwise.

Illegal aliens are treated better than legal citizens: college expenses, government benefits, free medical care.

People have become complacent, listening to officials’ lies and then ignoring them.

The media are lax and biased. They no longer seek the truth.

If people don’t wake up, there won’t be a country to be proud of. People will be living in a Third World country where there are only two classes, the poor and those in government.

The country is being corrupted by liberalism and socialism, yet people stand by doing nothing.

Only half the citizens of this country vote. The rest are equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. It is time the 50 percent who sat back all these years go to the voting booth and bring America back.

Mary Jane Newell,Oxford