Letter+to+President-Elect+Barack+Obama

Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 November 13, 2008 President-Elect Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW  Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, I am a citizen of the United States of America, and I have been interested in politics for the last few years. I spent most of Election night at the Cheshire, Connecticut Democratic headquarters, and we were all so happy when the announcement came at 11:00 our time that you were the new President-Elect. I am writing to express my opinions on what your priorities should be once you are in office. Prioritizing must be thought about carefully, because if we begin funding the wrong things too early, it will just cause our economy to become worse than it already is. The way that things are now, we are going to need to work on fixing our economy before we can begin funding expensive projects. The first thing that we can do to help achieve this goal is to begin pulling our troops out of Iraq. It is costing us $341 million a day and our troops are dying without being able to accomplish much. There is honestly no truly correct answer to fix the issue of Iraq, but if we leave it will greatly help our economy, and we will be able to regroup and rethink things. After we plug the hole in our economic boat that the war has created, we should focus on improving our countries Infrastructure. We need to spend money on public works projects such as building roads and bridges. This will create new jobs and get our economy flowing again. Once we have our economy going on the upwards path again we can focus on things such as funding research for more fuel efficient cars and more efficient and cleaner fuel sources. Thank you very much for reading my humble opinion, and I hope and deeply believe that you will pick America back up onto its feet, which it has been knocked off of for the past 8 years. Sincerely,