Every day, we read the paper about some possible terrorist attack, and as a result, it scares Americans. The Bush administration has now increased its means of scaring our public by announcing ways to combat terrorist actions. Some are reasonable, such as purchasing a week's worth of food and water to store in a safe place, but others are absurd. They now are instructing us to buy rolls of duct tape to close up holes near doors and around windows. Now let's be honest. Even if I had my degree in engineering, I could not patch up every possible hole throughout my home. Unless you can stop terrorism before it happens, it's hard to escape its effects.

My solution: Just live your life. To the Bush administration, stop trying to scare us. This nation, to paraphrase Michael Moore, has been founded upon fear. The pilgrims feared the Indians, so we killed them; we feared those who practiced a different religion, so we ostracized them; and we feared people using firearms against us, so we passed an amendment allowing citizens the right to bear arms. Now, we fear for our lives because of accusations by the president's staff about terrorism. All I want is evidence. If there is none, then stop trying to scare us. Maybe when these scares are over, our country will come out of its recession and I could finally get a job.