Letters and Essays to President Obama

Mr President, Sir;

Let us take the power back and gain control of our budget now. We can see the terrible human cost as well as the Billions wastefully spent in war. Let us learn from the efforts to colonize the world by the Dutch, French, Spanish, British, Portuguese, Germans and Russians. Reduce the US Military Footprint overseas so that we can realize government control of our budget. The same waste can be seen in our bloated prison industry and War on Drugs. There is no success in having the highest percent of people in prison of all other nations. There is no success in the War on Drugs when our money is driving drug gangs to organized crime in our country (like prohibition).

1) Reduce battlefield contracts in Iraq
2) Reduce Iraq to a Small Police Action of 20,000 troops
3) Remain steady in Afghanistan and look for force multipliers, and State Department solutions 4) Legalize Marijuana to stop US Dollars that enrich and drive the drug gangs
5) Free prisoners that can possibly be seen as users and not traffickers
6) Find ways to help young males have pride and hope for the future instead of being convicted felons
7) Let us realize that making war and sustaining war is far more harmful than smoking pot or so other consensual crime where no one is hurt
8) Let us take taxes from legal drug sales like alcohol, marijuana and tobacco and do good things with health care and education
9) Let's assess the true cost of war in a very public way

Sincerely