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Satyr6406 -> An Open letter to President-elect Obama (11/13/2008 12:10:42 AM)
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Dear Mr. President-elect;
Firstly; congratulations, sir on your winning campaign to convince the majority of Americans who voted that you were the better man to lead our country for the next four years.
Sir, I wrote a similar open letter to President Bush, four years ago. That letter went un-heeded.
President-elect Obama, I read your website, listened to your speeches, watched the debates and read everything I could find about you. You must have run for the office of president of a different country than the one in which I live because most of what you say leaves me scratching my head. I disagree with you on just about every issue.
I don’t think I’ll be going point-by-point (as I am going to try to keep this brief) but, you arbitrarily chose a number of $250,000 as the “mean water mark” for your tax plan. You do realize that there are areas in this country where making that amount of money has them looking for second jobs? Mostly urban areas but New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Denver come to mind, off the top of my head. Unfortunately, sir, this makes your number a bit skewed. Maybe you should factor in a cost-of-living allotment? Better yet, if you’re interested, I could submit my proposal for a consumption tax which would be an ENTIRELY fair system under which people would really have no complaint.
I think, sir, that your stance on taxes is based in your socialist political leanings. Why should my children NOT benefit from my hard work, if that is my dying wish (Inheritance tax)? Why should I be willing to “share” more of my hard-earned money with people who can’t be bothered to get up off their lazy behinds and earn a living? I am speaking to you, sir, as someone who is woefully under-employed.
Charity is, indeed a good and moral thing but, you cannot legislate morality! We can educate (note the word, please. I didn’t say “indoctrinate” or “brainwash”) people as to the necessity to give to others less fortunate but, that idea coming from an entity (The United States government) that has been working to become the de-facto father to all of our children for 40 years, hardly passes the giggle test.
Another reason I believe we grew up in different countries (and you’re not that much older than I, sir) is because; in my country, I’ve been told all my life that I cannot judge people based upon the color of their skin yet, my country seems to be okay with my being labeled a “racist” because of the color of mine (You see, it’s unfortunate but, I have some bad blood in my family and as a result, I do appear to be white). I have heard “Of course you’re racist. You’re white, ain’t you?” more times than I can count. And, most recently, it seems that I am a racist because I disagree with your plan for this country. The idea is ludicrous.
Mr. President-elect racism, in this country, is VERY much a two-way street and I am tired of it not being perceived that way. I ask for your help on this issue, also.
Finally, Mr. President-elect; some of your supporters have told me that you intend to reverse all of the damage done to our civil liberties by the ill-named PATRIOT ACT. As I said, earlier; I believe that your leanings are socialist and it has never been my understanding of socialism that it promotes freedom of the populace but, just in case I’m wrong, if you were to, indeed, use your power of executive order to reverse this travesty, I will offer my services to you for your re-election campaign.
I don’t envy you your job but, I remind you: you wanted it. Now, may God bless and keep you as you try to do your best to keep the promises that your message of hope seems to have inspired.
Peace and comfort,
Michael P. Xxxxxxx
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