Letter+to+Barack+Obama

President-elect Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500

Dear President-Elect Brack Obama, I would like to congratulate you on your presidential victory over John McCain on November 4th. I was really hoping you would win and I knew you could do it. Can you believe you made history? Not many people get to say they did that. You should be very proud of your accomplishment. I believe with you as the 44th president of the United States you will fix all of our problems that past presidents only hurt. I am looking forward to having you as the man of The White House for 4 or maybe even 8 years to come.

The most important issue I believe you should try to resolve as soon as you get in to The White House is our economic crisis. I can tell something is being done because gas and oil prices are going down, but it isn't enough. We need to keep moving forward with steady progress to overcome this. What you have to realize is, if we cover this issue first then everything else that needs to be done will happen easier, and more importantly, quicker. There are five main topics I think economics is hurting right now. They are: places are going out of business, which means jobs are being lost, then people can't afford to heat their home or afford to drive, and the stock market is mainly increasing or it will go up and down rapidly from one day to the next. As you can see, one things leads to the next and it goes on and on until we fix this economic crisis.

One of the topics that I think we need to accomplish first is places going out of business which means jobs are being lost. For example, one of the top electronic stores in the world, Circuit City, has filed for bankruptcy and are closing a majority of their stores. This is one of the tops stores in the world, and some of them are going out of business. And personally, I love buying things from them so I am very upset this is happening. This is just one of probably thousands maybe even tens of thousands of businesses that can not survive with the way our economy is right now. By these stores closing it means that people are losing their jobs and can not support their family or themselves. It also isn't as easy as it used to be for them where if their job closed they could easily find a new one. Now more and more places are closing so there are no job openings. I am very lucky because my parents have good jobs that are not in any risk, but even my dad was very slow with his business over the summer. You know how people collect things. Well, that is what they are doing with their money right now because nobody knows what is going to happen in the near future. We need change and we need it now!

The next topic I think you should take into consideration is the cost of gas and oil. I realize that prices are starting to go down, but it is nowhere near those days where gas was under two dollars. The sad part about it is people can't afford to drive like they would like to and families are even struggling to heat their home. There is no reason a family should go without heat. No reason for it. We know there are places in the world where there is still gas and oil to be found and dug up. It isn't like we are on our last place to get it from. Again, I am lucky that I get to live in a heated home, but I don't take it for granted and there are lots of people out there that would like the same. Just like I said before, we need change, and we need it now!

I am certainly glad to have you as the new president of The United States of America and I believe you will help us change a lot of our problems. I know you won't disappoint. Please take what I said into consideration, but I know whatever you do it will be the best for our country. Thank You, and I wish you the best of luck in your time in The White House.

Sincerely,

Anthony DeSantis