Those who say they are better off now than they were four years ago must believe the lame-stream media propaganda or are living in an alternative universe.

Gasoline prices have doubled in four years, President Barack Obama has virtually halted drilling for oil and is attempting to close down coal production. Food prices have increased. Unemployment is 8 percent, our national debt increases by the second and regulations are strangling businesses, causing many of them to shut down.

This election, vote your pocketbook. Our foreign policy is in shambles. Obama’s bowing to Middle Eastern heads of state hasn’t won us friends, but has shown weakness to our enemies.

The Muslim world is burning our flags and pictures of Obama. Our ambassador to Libya was brutally killed along with three others. Obama ignores our friend and ally, Israel, and treats Israel’s president with disrespect.

Most troubling was the attempt to take God out of the Democratic platform. Their advocacy of gay marriage and abortion are not pleasing to God.

In our pledge of allegiance, we say we are one nation under God. We have become morally bankrupt.

It is disturbing to see our wonderful, free republic ruled by people who seem to hate it and want to destroy it economically and morally.

God help us elect God-fearing servants who will preserve our freedoms.

The choice is clear.

Michael and Martha Hanyak Lewisburg