Hai Tat

Dear Senator Barack Obama,

Congratulations on becoming the 44th President of the United States. I am anticipating your smooth transition into the White House on the 20th of January this coming year. Overcoming the many racial, political, and individual obstacles was certainly challenging, but you will have many more to face in the coming months. However, you also have the opportunity to send your country in the right direction to change America’s fate, and help the country become economically stable, and repair the international relationships with other countries.

You have already shown that you have identified this country's key issues by working with President George Bush to tackle the economic crisis before you even get into office. Restoring the economy will also be one of your primary focuses at the beginning of your administration. Global warming is an international epidemic that is destroying our planet. As more Carbon Dioxide is emitted each year, the planet warms up, melting glaciers, altering weather patterns, and eventually negatively effecting our daily lives. The United States is currently the second leading country in carbon emissions. It is an irreversibly effect that alters many regions, making it difficult for citizens to do what they enjoy.

I support and respect your plan to focus on the economic crisis. Luckily, if implemented correctly, your economic strategies could also help fight global warming. Your idea of investing/ loaning governmental funds to companies such as Ford does allow you to tackle two different situations. By giving out these loans, companies have a little bit of a backbone, and room to work on new technologies that are environmentally friendly. It should be mandatory and expected of companies to produce environmentally friendly products, or use them if the company does not produce them. This not only is a step towards saving our planet, but it allows an opportunity for new “green jobs” that had been promised. I also believe that there should be subsidies and tax breaks for those individuals and companies that choose to “go green”. This does encourage more citizens to leave less of a carbon footprint on the planet.

I do hope that the global warming issue is one of your top priorities. This issue is destroying our planet, and my generation (and many more to come) will be the one which suffers the effects. I trust that you will make some excellent decisions in the future that will change the course of America’s history.

Sincerely,

Hai Tat