Certain rights and programs cannot be left to the states

Your columnist, Robert Robb, writes “Why should providing meals to homebound seniors be a federal responsibility rather than the responsibility of local governments and private charities?”

The answer is very simple. We are the United States of America, not the United States of the Midwest, the United States of Arizona, of Maricopa County or of Phoenix. When I used to travel overseas, the first way I introduced myself, if asked, is as an American (I am not sure I would be as quick to do that today).

If Mr. Robb’s logic is to be followed, Medicare and Social Security would no longer be handled by the federal government. Instead, they would be in the hands of any number of political entities who would most assuredly screw things up.

Perhaps the most efficiently run programs coming out of Washington D.C. are these two, which have kept me from going bankrupt twice.

Any budget that cuts the impact of programs such as Meals on Wheels will, once again, show the world we are becoming a country without a heart.

I wonder how comfortable Mr. Robb would be if he had a relative depending on meals such as these to eat properly. And then that relative ended up at the mercy of our state Legislature.

Were that to occur, I would be happy to deliver a care package every day to his relative.