Letter to the editor: Biden's policies are not working

If you were president of the United States today, your State of the Union Address might well read like this:

• Our southern border is overrun by illegal immigrants, with drug and child trafficking out of control.

• Prices of basics like food, gas, homes and autos are shooting upward, with price inflation the highest in 20 years.

• Robberies and murders in major cities are at all-time high. Criminals are being released prematurely, and many police defunded.

• Russia is massing troops at the Ukraine border, and China has increased flights over Taiwan.

• Fossil-fuel independence has been replaced by dependence on Saudi Arabia, driving up prices.

• Tax rates are being increased to pay for growing federal spending.

• Public education results continue to decline. School shootings are increasing.

It is critical that we elect people whose policies will provide solutions to these grave and escalating problems.

Ask yourself, have President Biden’s left-wing policies of closing gas pipelines, more government spending, higher taxes and more regulations worked as well as President Trump’s conservative policies of a border wall, stronger military and policing, cutting taxes and regulations, and more free- market opportunities?

Ron Raymond

Buffalo Township