Work together to solve country's problems

In school, in U.S. history and government classes, I was taught that the Constitution set forth three branches of government — the executive (president), the legislative (Congress) and the judiciary (Supreme Court) — each being a check and balance to the other.

With this type of government, no branch could hold total power and become a dictatorial form of government. Our country has always adhered to this and remained a strong democracy. Now it seems that the Constitution has taken a back seat and there are those in the three branches who do whatever they want because they can. Laws are not being enforced, private phone data, emails, Facebook and Twitter data are being seized, cover-ups on the IRS and Benghazi scandals are allowed and the First and Fourth amendments are almost void.

The executive branch has disregarded Supreme Court rulings and disregarded laws enacted by the legislative branch. The President says his executive orders are for the good of the people. Hogwash, sounds more like for power and greed. We’ve lost sight of what this country was founded on and people in both parties have disregarded “for the good of the people.”

Our republic form of democracy and the constitution are “for the good of the people.” It has kept us a stable government for more than 200 years. How many other countries can say that? In 2008, during the election, I wrote that somebody someone would write a book entitled “The Rise and Fall of the American Empire”. I just didn’t think I’d be alive to read it. Pray for our wonderful country, yes, even with its faults.

Get your heads out of the sand and let’s work together to fix them and not to help in its destruction, even by staying in our own little world. Pray in church, pray alone and pray in public. Believe that God is with us.

Signed a Christian, proud veteran, retired cop and patriot.

JIM PEASHA

Sandpoint