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What are you looking for from a president and government? If you are intellectual enough to read the editorials, then you're smart enough to pick the candidate who best fits your goals.

Sit down with your friends or family and discuss it.

Prioritize the five issues you feel are the most important to you and your family and our country. Discard all other criteria and focus on what you see as really important.

Ours fell in this order: Securing the borders, reducing oil dependence, tax reform, health care and education.

Things that seem important to the media aren't on our list. Which candidates have any stance on the real issues? It doesn't matter which party.

The election is only a year away, and when I look at the trivial issues that people think are important in the daily editorials, I want to throw up.

Ask a teacher what he would do to fix education. Ask a doctor or a nurse what she thinks is wrong with health care. Do you even know what a fair tax is? Do you know how many environmental issues have occurred in the United States using nuclear energy?

Don't get me started on border fences!

Joe Shelton
Summerfield