A Note for Our Futrure President.

To President to be John MaCain/Barrack Obama. As future leader of this greatest nation, it will become your responsibility to ensure the continued peace and prosperity of these United States of America. As the end of one of the worst presidencies in history draws near, we can only hope and pray that the next four years will see a return of responsibility, accountability, honesty, and integrity to the white house and Congress.

Although I do not personally agree with your positions on many issues and will therefore cast my vote for a third party candidate, I know that one of you will become our nations next president, and I wish you luck in returning our nation back to greatness. There are many problems which plague this country, and although I know that welfare cuts might be a little too much to ask, I will endeavor to create a list of what needs to be done.

1. End the war in Iraq. Let’s face it; we have almost nothing to gain from this war and everything to lose. Most Americans oppose the war, with the exception of the far right who seem to think that if we just stay for five, ten, twenty more years, that we can win and create an American ally in the heart of the Middle East. Unfortunately that is little more then a pipe dream at this point. The war is taxing our economy, driving wedges between ourselves and our allies, and most important of all, killing our brave men and women who serve in our nations military. BRING THEM HOME! We still have a war in Afghanistan that was fought for legitimate reasons, don’t take troops from there to put in the Iraqi quagmire.

2. Cut spending. With a record deficit and a multi trillion dollar debt, this nation is in more peril and going bankrupt then it is of suffering a devastating blow at the hands of terrorists. Osama Bin Laden could never in a hundred years do as much damage as our own government has done. Whoever becomes the next president MUST cut spending, (and not just for welfare programs, the military doesn’t need two new fighter planes which cost millions of dollars each, the F-15 is STILL the best fighter in the world) and begin paying off our enormous debt. Veto any bill that goes through congress which contains pork spending.

3. Get out of the private market. The private market is an incredible thing. Leave it on its own and almost always it will run itself magnificently. Unfortunately the government as of late doesn’t trust the private market and so has regulated and taxed it to the point where we can hardly call it a capitalistic system anymore. With Americas growing economic problems, now is the best time for the government to get out of the private market and let it run its own course. Look at almost any economic problem and most of the time you’ll see the government intervening in one way or another.

What follows is a list of smaller issues or issues that realistically don’t have a chance of happening but I would like for our future president to consider.

-Education is the role of the states, not the federal government. Acording to the 10th Amendment, powers not given to the federal government by the constitution are given to the states and the people. Education is not mentioned. Ban the Department of Education.

-End the war on drugs. It costs too much and impedes on the rights of the people to make their own decisions.

-Work towards the recognizing of gay rights. Gay marriage is going to happen people, and why not? Why is it so wrong for gays to marry?

-Reduce or end welfare programs. Giving to charity is great, forcing people to give to charity is not, which is what the government does essentially.

-Work towards the end of abortion, except in the case of rape or if the mothers life is endangered. Yes, I am still a libertarian, but here’s my case. A person is legally dead when their heart stops beating, so shouldn’t you be alive when it starts? No, a fertilized egg is not a human being, but if human life begins and ends with the beating of the heart then that unborn baby has rights as well.

-Increase state rights.

-Don’t fund any project which doesn’t benefit multiple states. If a project, such as a road or bridge, only benefits one state that state should foot the bill, not the federal government.

-Total freedom, total responsibility. We live in a free society, therefore people must be held responsible for their own personal actions.

-Enact a loser pay rule. If you take a lawsuit to court and lose you must pay the defendants bill. This would decrease the number of frivolous lawsuits and help bring the prices of medical treatment down.

-Protect our constitutional rights to bear arms.

-Pull out of the United Nations. We provide about a quarter of the UN’s total funding while other veto members of the Security Council, China and Russia among them, pay almost nothing. Save a few bucks and allow an incompetent and corrupt organization die.

-Re-enforce our boarders and reform immigration laws.

-Re-establish good relations with our allies who we’ve fallen out of favor with because of the Iraq war.

-Abolish hate crimes and affirmative action. All crimes are hate crimes and all people regardless of race should be treated equally, regardless of if their a part of a minority or not.

And of course, obey the constitution at all times, respect the rights of your citizens, and reside over the office of the Presidency with honor and integrity. I wish our future president luck and hope that come 2012, they will have proven themselves worthy of my vote.