Now that the endless campaign is over and the election is over let me send a plea to our president to please try to accomplish a few key issues to save our legislative process. 

Mr. Obama-
I gladly donated $500 to your campaign last June.  I believe that you are the person to get us through the financial debacle that we have been in since 2008.  I am a teacher and believe me, that sum of money was difficult to part with.  When I believe in a cause, I think that you have to give until it hurts in order to be a part of the solution to the problem.  I don't have anything to do with religion so therefore I tithe for charity and social causes.  I want to see this country take positive steps towards social issues-which I believe was the reason you won the election.  I also want us to move congress into the 21st century.

Here is a simple list of issues that I would see as important in order to move us Forward!

1. Stop some of the outdated laws that control our election process.  Get rid of the electoral college. Now is the time to get rid of it.  It helped you win the election this this round,but it is an outdated relic of the 1700-1800's.
 
2. Stop Gerrymandering- look at this district in your home state of Illinois.  Does this look like a fair district?  We know that the basic difference in the house and the senate is states have 2 senators, so that Alaska has as much power as California in the senate, but the gerrymandering to gain house seats needs to be stopped.

3.  Put a real limit on money spent on campaigns.  Who wins in the ad spending- the networks!  I will make an analogy to the nuclear arms race.  Why did the US need 30,000 nuclear weapons when 20-30 would annihilate the whole human population? Because we had to have more the "evil empire".  The same is true of campaign spending.  If you have a budget and get rid of super pack spending, money could be saved for running this country.

4. Invest in education.  Currently public schools are battlefields.  We are allowed to have 36 students per class in Georgia. No child left behind did some serious damage to our public schools.  We couldn't make progress unless we kept all students in school. The truth is that if there isn't a fear of being expelled from school, there really isn't discipline.  Without discipline, the students have too much control of the school. I am not saying that that a majority of the students are like this.  I love the diversity in our high school, but a small portion of "thugs" can really stop us moving in a positive direction. I have been teaching for 31 years and I can't handle a class size this large every day.  So many important programs are being cut and this is our future.  I realize the federal government can't get involved in every state-but something has to be done to save our schools.

I believe that this election proved that a majority of people want equality in gay rights, women's rights, minority rights.  I think the republicans now realize that they can't stomp on the will of the minorities, because they are now a majority of our country. I approve of the the way that you handled many of the social issues.  Hopefully, we can now focus on fairness for everyone. I am scared of the debt crisis. I hope the congress will now work together with you to lead us over the "fiscal cliff".

Mr. Obama- I wish you the best and I admire your tenacity. Keep us on track and move us forward as a country!