Teamwork is needed

To the editor: I do realize this letter is very late in coming, but to respond to Charles Bierbauer (Sept. 21 Viewpoints) is a rather difficult task. Mr. Bierbauer’s article hit me, at least, right between the eyes. We must be of the same generation. I also remember my father reading a “rag” from an extremely radical group, not the KKK, not McCarthy, but some ‘new wave’ politics, that I have not seen or heard about since the early ‘70s. I firmly agree with you and your ideals of the new age we are in now, and politicians must stop the back stabbing, and the “my party is better than your party” crap, and start realizing what the United States is. Maybe it is time to return to at least some of the Truman-era ideas; balanced budgets, humanity to each other, get rid of the U.N., every country is in it anyway; stop some of the free trade and put the U.S. back to work, I do realize that out of country labor is cheaper and ‘supposedly’ better, but is it really?; and what is with all these candidates on either side running, just to confuse the American public? We need some semblance of order. We do not need the Speaker of the House viciously fighting the President just so one side can say they beat the other! We must work together, as a team, to fight any derisive country that may be thinking of attacking us in any way. We must work as a team to balance the budget; we must be a team in decisions affecting the welfare of all U.S. citizens. Or, how many of us forgot that term, or just use it in sport rivalries? Lynn McCauley Milford