A Letter from Thom to President Obama

you know I've gotta letter to the president he just down the road from me I understand that from time to time at least people in his office listen to or watch this program in so it's kind of a knock-on or follow on from the conversation that I had a Bob ney just a few minutes ago former former Republican congressman Bob ney was now a a reporter for The Hockey News Service and here it is just share with you straight up dear mister president now that Russia and Syria have said that they're willing to work with the UN with secretary say carey who was by the way really on resolving the issue of chemical weapons it's time for you to follow the famous advice given LBJ by Senator George taken back during the vietnam war and declare victory and come home understand the reserve network television time for tomorrow night to pitch the nation on using military action in Syria well here's a thought use that time instead to discuss some other really pressing issues facing Americans I mean first declare victory airliner we did this we are in a good weapons but then you call for Congress to immediately throw all their attention and to raise in the minimum wage to $10 dollars an hour we're was back in 1968 that would immediately produce billions dollars in stimulus for the economy according to a recent study by restaurant opportunity centers United it would lift more than six million Americans out of poverty are you can call for the strengthening have social security by eliminating the payroll tax cap I would mean the bill gates and I would pay the same percentage of our income into Social Security literally overnight social security system would be made whole for at least the next 75 years probably much longer or mister president what about using your television time to talk to americans about Obamacare a Kaiser Family Foundation poll back in april the *** this your father 42 percent of Americans don't even know that Obamacare is still the law Kaiser Family Foundation poll from last month found the 51 percent of Americans say they don't have enough information about a book Obamacare to understand how it's going to impact them or their families or here's one of my favorite ideas use your TV time tomorrow night to call for rolling back the incredibly destructive tax breaks and policies the reagan years roll back the reagan tax cuts on Milan millionaires and billionaires and eliminate reagan's program to allow CEOs to be compensated with stock options this is gonna this would return CEO pay back to the thirty to one ratio was in it was in America before reagan and will go a long ways towards restoring are middle-class I know my friends organized labor would love this idea you call for repeal taft-hartley bring democracy back into the workplace at the very least call for the passage a card check by telling Americans to support the Employee Free Choice Act or how about calling for a world-wide global tax on carbon if the carbon polluters actually had to pay a modest amount for dumping their waste in our air for example fifty dollars a tonne and immediately solar and wind power become more economical than fossil fuels it would jump-start industry rebuild the economy and a long way toward stopping global warming there are a lot have things that this country desperately needs and what another wars now one up President Obama sir I voted for you I worked for you and I respect you if you're going to use your political capital many of us would really like to see you do it on those kinds of issues rather than on bomb in a country that most Americans can't even find on a map this is not rocket science John Kerry came out he was he was asked straight up Secretary of State John Kerry the man who's holding the office that was first held by Thomas Jefferson think about that for a minute I'm sure John Kerry thought about that when he said he'd give up in a senator to become secretary as state the office the thomas jefferson held in the George Washington administration John Kerry when he was asked straight up by reporters today what could Syria do that would cause the United States to say noon when I can Obama in Cary came right out and said actually got the exact quote someplace area Kerry said sure he could turn over every single you know they said is there anything that he did that to that aside could do that would cause you not a bomb in Cary said sure he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week turn over all OVA without delay and allow for total account and so the russian foreign minister mister Lavrov says back we see year 5 in world will raise it 5 he said what I just you know helped a controller's internationally but will destroy these things I give you the exact quote from the Russian Foreign Ministry said we don't know whether Syria will agree with this but if the establishment of international control over chemical weapons in the country will prevent attacks then we will immediately begin to work with them at Damascus that capital Syria for those if you don't know and we call on the Syrian leadership to not only agreed to set in the chemical weapons storage sites under international control but also years I see would raise you but also to their subsequent destruction so then the question hung in the air for an hour what's Syria going to say and the foreign minister of Syria the man who holds the Syrian equivalent above the seats that Thomas Jefferson once held in the George Washington administration John Kerry now holds the Foreign Minister serio well lead al Mar module mal all um and a you a L EM hell mowlam mile now column anyway re-set he said and I quote this is from Reuters by Reuters Syria welcomes Russia's proposal for Damascus to put its chemical weapons under international control we welcome so president Obama has interviews all the networks tonight and he's got prime-time television tomorrow night for a national address President Obama please take the first couple minutes and congratulate your brilliant Secretary of State on resolving international incident in a world in a way that is going to make the world a safer place it's going to increase the international consensus that that chemical weapons were evil things should be destroyed in a way that's going to bring together the United States and Russia in a way it's going to reduce tensions in the region please take the first couple minutes in congratulate your secretary as state and yourself for two blocking the world up to the brink and the other side blinked and then spend the rest if your speech talking about congress has what is it 28 days left 39 days something like that I got about a month before some pretty nasty stuff starts happening with the red the budget surplus you know them toward give them a legislative agenda let's raise the minimum wage let's let people unionize let's put people back to work make the government the employer of last resort restart the CCC roll back the reagan tax cuts