How satisfied are you with the direction that our nation has been heading in these past
six months?
Zero.
And could you go into a little specificity?
I think the Congress is not doing anything and the President is shameful.
Shameful in what way?
The way he's dealing with foreign nations, the way he deals with Congress, the whole
deal.
What could these people do better?
Well Congress needs to get together and stop being so partisan and work together to help
our nation.
All right, season.
On a scale of one to ten, how satisfied are you with the direction our nation has been
heading in?
Zero being the worst.
It would be zero.
Zero.
And what's the reason for your lack of confidence?
I don't have any confidence in Trump.
The President.
That's right.
That's what you want to call him.
That's a loose term.
What is it about him that has disappointed you?
He's got no business being President.
He's a businessman.
He's not presidential material.
That's an interesting question because I was just talking to a friend of mine who lives
in the Netherlands and she of course is appalled with what's going on in the United States.
And what I have done since the fall is really just look locally and just start to focus
more on what's going on locally and what I can do in my community to make a difference.
So I'm not really paying a whole lot of attention honestly to what's going on nationally because
I felt that I couldn't make a difference.
Let me ask you, what are the issues that you think need to be looked at immediately?
Locally?
Yes.
Our downtown, for sure, business.
I think how can we have a thriving business community is of utmost importance to me because
I live downtown.
And then I think we're doing a good job with our schools.
I think we have great schools here.
I think we have good leadership.
I think we actually have a good foundation to work with.
And the only thing that really comes to my mind when I think of Rutland, Vermont is we
could do better downtown.
What you're feeling about what's going on in the country right now?
Well, you know, I'm a part of the Yellow Deley here.
We own the Deley here right on 23 Center Street and we're part of a group of communities.
And we go according to what it says in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, as most people
know him, said that we're not to get involved in the political aspect of society, but that
we would pray that people of conscience would be put in places of authority and would judge
according to that.
So we don't really get involved in the political aspect of things, but we pray in our houses
morning and evening for people of authority to be men of conscience and that they would
rule according to that.
We don't want to have to decipher who's right and who's wrong in that sense.
And the question is on a scale of one to 10, how satisfied are you with the direction our
country's heading?
I'd probably say five.
Five, so you're right there in the middle?
Yeah.
So it could get better, it could get worse, you know.
Give me some pros and cons.
What are the pros that start there?
What's being done well?
Well the thing that, as far as well, I can't really get an answer to that, but the thing
that worries me the most is about the Medicaid, Medicare thing, what Trump is doing.
I mean, he's more for the rich people than he is for us normal people that have to work,
you know, that are retired and, you know, and that's got, I think everybody like me
worried.
You know, I mean, if they take our Medicaid and Medicare away from us, what are we going
to do?
Well, the reason why our nation has gone so far downhill is they don't really read the
Bible anymore.
They don't believe what God has told them in the Bible, what is best for this nation,
what's best for individuals, one on one.
We need to know the truth.
The truth makes us free, that God is real, heaven is real, hell is real.
People today don't believe those things and that's why they go astray and that's why
they do things that are immoral.
So we just need to get back to the roots that we are founded on and those are the roots
of the Holy Bible.
Even the lawyers of old had to read Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the books of the law that
were in the Bible.
They don't read it anymore.
They don't even know it anymore.
