Mr. President,
It is easy to understand that you are beholden to corporate interests in a number of diverse ways, which could limit your sense of options relative to unrestrained fossil fuel use. Yet, we, all together, cannot face run-away climate change, weak support for constructive energy programs, unbridled economic growth, barely regulated free trade, ever expanding resource wars, critical resource depletions (involving water, minerals, oil and so forth), high extinction rates for multiple species, overall environmental ruin, increasing overpopulation, grossly inequitable sharing of global wealth and other dire conditions, and all of which are interconnected, without your forcefully taking the lead to address them and doing so in a holistic tough fashion.
In other words, you cannot leave these serious matters for future administrations to sort out in a meaningful manner. Despite vicious backlash for your stance, you must vigorously work to change our collective course now rather than continue the same old policies that your predecessors in office had and that, obviously, do not work out well for human welfare in the long run.
One of the major disappointments that I've experienced during your time in office involves wrong choices having been made when it came to the government bailouts. Instead of supporting this damaging wealth transfer, your colleagues and you should have let many of the companies in dire straits fail.
While creating policies that comfortably ease them into their demise by various means, you could have, simultaneously, worked to create small vibrant self-reliant communities across the U.S.A., ones in which local trade, job growth and eco-sustainability are simultaneously fostered. With such a program, reliance on foreign fossil fuel would, obviously, have been permanently minimized due to deglobalization of commerce and finance.
Instead, we have a situation in which, despite the growing federal deficit, the upcoming and always increasing military budget is expected to be around $710 billion. Now compare that amount to the $100 billion slated to address unemployment and the federal education budget of around $220 billion.
At the same time, it's clear that we don't get much return from such a meager educational subsidy. The lack is, indeed, glaring when a graduate from a U.S. university can wind up not being able to figure out the three countries that make up North America and thinks that all of Africa is one nation.
Additionally, what does the disparity between the first and the two additional sums indicate about the type of combative nation that ours is becoming? What does it suggest that the definitive foundation of our economy is? What does it imply about your own priorities, especially when this information from "The Foundations of the U.S. Economy have been Destroyed" is thrown into the mix?
"So where did all the jobs go? Over the past few decades we have allowed the corporate giants to ship mountains of American jobs overseas, and there are signs that this trend is only going to get worse. In fact, Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder estimates that 22% to 29% of all current U.S. jobs will be offshorable within two decades. So get ready for even more of our jobs to be shipped off to Mexico, China and India." [1]
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