OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA

November 9, 2012

President of the United States

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We --and the Romney-supporters (half the country) really do want to like you with your nice smile and great charisma and lovely family.  We want to be glad that you were re-elected.  You can help us do that.  We don’t want to think you have communistic sympathies or a colonialist view of the U.S.  nor  plans to disarm our country with promises to Putin.    

You did say in your speech a few moments ago that the top 2? per cent of the nation make $250,000 or more and should be taxed more. Those include mostly small business owners and various professionals --rather than the super-rich  of the top 1/2 per cent.  These are Marx's  bourgeois --the middle class conservatives whom Communists destroyed.    According to 2009 and Tax Payers Union,  it was $344,000 that the top 1 per cent make.     There aren’t very many uber-rich who make millions like Romney, Hollywood celebs, uni coaches and presidents and CEO's of big corporations --not enough to slow the deficit if you keep approving pork and  new billion dollar spending packages and sending tons of money to other nations' corrupt governments. 

Please surprise the half of the country that supported Romney.  We are scared to death of your agenda --what we perceive it to be--and the radical influences in your past.   Please prove us wrong.  Show that you can cut programs for which we should not borrow from China.  We know --that means lost public sector jobs --but if China is paying them, they have to go.   If they are valuable employees in a department we don’t really need, they will find work elsewhere in a more prosperous private sector --i.e. more prosperous if you don't tax them down.

We suggest you not raise taxes EXCEPT SLIGHTLY on the uber  rich -- the top 1/2 per cent.  You still want them to be inclined to invest, hire, spend and give.  Learn from business people who know how to succeed at business and know how taxes impact growth.  The Government needs way too much revenue because of the horrible level of spending.  Let Big Bird support Public Broadcasting.  He can do it.  They can sell muppets.  As for Public Radio, put Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on every day and we’ll send them a donation.  PBS  is not neutral enough politically that they should deserve tax-payer support.  They speak in their measured, neutral, unemotional tones --leaning WAY to the left --as far left as Fox News speaks excitedly with no pretense of neutrality, to the right.  But Fox raises their own money.  So can NPR.  (note:  “fair and balanced”  doesn’t mean neutral.)

Planned Parenthood shouldn't get public funding if  pro-life Pregnancy Centers and clinics don't.  The poor women will still get healthcare using their medicaid cards and the public health clinics.

You must move toward the center if you would meet the Republicans half way and end the supposed gridlock.   Your determination should be NO NEW SPENDING --and the elimination of all non-essential spending and departments that don’t directly impact the needy or the elderly or the ill.    Send the education of the nation back to the locals. Shut down the federal department of education.   Send the school breakfast program to the churches.   Promote volunteer tutoring by the elderly in every public school. Note that Christian and parochial and home schools educate best on way less money. 

And for goodness sakes, PLEASE deliver to the nation’s youth Santorum’s message from your bully pulpit. The 3 things to do to avoid poverty:  “Finish high school; get a job; get married before having children--( and stay married if possible.  Stay faithful. ) If you do even the first 3 things on this list, 98% of you will be above poverty line; 77% will be above average in income.”

There really is a correlation between family stability and morality and the strength of communities and nations.  You are for gay marriage, but ought not be, because children deserve a mother and father when possible.  Gay marriage deprives them of one or the other by its very nature.   Nor should gays share quarters with straights (or with each other) in military.  It’s like putting men and women together in showers and barracks--completely distracting to the mission of military preparedness.  Homosexuality does spread --from the experienced to the inexperienced, and like drugs, becomes addictive.

Please be better than conservatives expect.   Seriously see the logic and reason behind conservatism and their criticism of your party and policies.    Communism hasn’t been appreciated anywhere where it is tried. Socialism leads to the fiscal cliff  --sliding like Greece--and you’ve got us on the edge.  Surprise us --and do not push us over.  Don’t tax us highly now or you will kill business and jobs.  People are thinking of moving out of country for fear you will rob them of their pensions --either through confiscation of high taxes or bad economy, inflation, devaluing of the dollar, etc.  We are afraid of having our lives shortened by your Canada-style health care program.  Let someone tweak that program!  We don't want the long waits and rationing of Canadian healthcare! Canadians come HERE for procedures they can't get in a timely manner in Canada.

As for national security and disarming Americans, we hope you are just Barack Obama from Hawaii --and not a Stalin in the making as some suspect.

Seek good successful businessmen’s advice and not just socialists’ advice.   They have never made any nation solvent.

Put Romney on your cabinet! Because he does like to solve  financial problems.   Wow!  That would be a uniting act.  Listen to Ryan, too.  We are in a mess.  Let them try to help! 

We shall pray for you daily--that you really ARE a Christian  as you told Rick Warren --or will become one and that you will seek God’s guidance on all matters before you --not Marx’s advice, nor Alinsky’s, nor Ayers, nor Davis’s.  Only Jesus rose from the grave.   He is the only one worthy to save us for Eternity.  Atheists can’t give you wise guidance like the Holy Spirit and the Word of God can.  Your stands on abortion and homosexuality --and lukewarm relationship with Israel,  are all 3 in contradiction to His Word and His Spirit and need to be reconsidered.   Separation of church and state doesn't mean God is not real --and has no say in the country's values which shape national culture and character. 

Forgive us for any misjudgment of your character and intentions, and prove all the naysayers wrong.

Sincerely --wanting to admire you,  

wanting your term to be successful in the eyes of  God and informed Americans,

Thoughts:  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Psalm 33:12

 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  II Chronicles 7:14

Generosity is to be voluntary, from the heart, not confiscated by dictators for the envious.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible