I would encourage my fellow citizens to write to our new congressman, Doug LaMalfa, regarding the coming cuts to the federal government — known as the “sequester.” I wrote: “This sequester craziness is really beginning to worry me, congressman. You — our elected representatives — are risking serious damage to the entire country because of your inability to work together and come to some sort of a compromise to avoid disastrous cuts to many, many vital programs. I have heard some Republicans say that this is what the country needs … I am very certain that our tentative economic recovery …