20 Minutes with the President

1)Dear Mr. President,
Congratulations on winning the election, you are now running the United States of America. Although you know how to do the job much better then I do, I have a few suggestions regarding how time and money could be spent to better our country. I feel money should be kept to the people who make it, and taxes should not be raised to much. I do understand taxes must be raised because money in the end helps better the future of our economy. I think you should put money towards a new source of energy because oil is gonna eventually run out, or a way to make oil at a cheep price. I think time needs to be spent first off to fix the economy now, our future is very important but in order to get there we need to fix the current problems at hand. What do you think is the best way to go about fixing the issues I brought up?
Sincerely,
Minnesota5

2)
a) In the year 2012 I will be leaving college and things will have changed. I think Obama will try and quit the war in Iraq so I'm guessing that in the next four years we wont have troops there. This will be a big change from now. I hope by pulling out our forces that the war stops. If we pull out and Iraq comes after us again, we could be right back where we started only with more drama and a loss of more money and lives. I hope by 2012 the war is over with no consequences.
b) Thinking ahead to when I will most likely be a husband with a family, I don't know if I'm confident that we will still be the world power. I once heard a statistic that said something along the lines of; no country has maintained power for over 100 years. When I heard this I was also told that we were not getting close to, but over the 100 years. Therefore, I think the biggest issue will be to maintain our status as a country. I would hope we could stay a dominant country because, if not, we could potentially fall under rule of another country.