Rick Hamada is spot on in his Op-Ed column, Fixing What's Wrong with America.
It looks to me like the further America gets from its Ten Commandments culture, the worse off we get as a country. And the closer we get to a dreaded civil war. Though you could argue we're already fighting a civil war, just not on a battlefield but on the internet.
I wholeheartedly agree with his statement, "If we embraced and did our collective best to follow these directives, we ideally would emerge as better individuals, families, communities and a country."
Even if you don't believe in God, how can you argue against these 10 basic rules for living? The last 7 of the commandments are universal.
Now is the time for our elected officials to do their job and lead. Cast a vision. Unite our people behind the grand idea that the United States of America is THE greatest country in the world.
We can be better. We need to be our best.
Michael T. Shishido, Honolulu
