Dear Friends,
This letter is one that Mr. John Joseph Kennedy asked me to write him regarding the: " State of the Common American" in September 2005.
Mr. Kennedy announced in 2006 and has since retracted his 2008 Presidential candidacy.   http://www.johnjosephkennedy.com/
If you look through his website, you will see this and other writings of mine to Mr. Kennedy.
John Joseph Kennedy is one of the most Loving Souls on Earth! His Primary Life Focus is on Saving Whales and marine mammals. "
 
Here is the Letter:
""Dear Mr. Kennedy,
Here is some recent U.S. history as I lived it and what I would do right now if I were President of the United States.
"The last 25 years have seen major changes in how Americans of all ages and races see as well as support themselves and their families.
When I was 15 years old in 1975, the USA was a leader in almost every industry worldwide. We enjoyed low fuel prices, high prestige, abundant natural resources and well paying jobs that were readily accessible to the average citizen.
Housing was fair priced, automobiles were well made and gasoline to fuel them relatively cheap compared to the rest of the world. Major industries like forestry, shipbuilding, airplane manufacturing, steel manufacturing, textiles, farming and building construction gave citizens the steady wages needed and desired to live the American dream.
Most college graduates found ample jobs awaiting in their chosen field of study and promotion from within the expected course to success. High school grads found ample employment in factories or labor related industry.
Not in 2005. Debt and personal bankruptcy is at an all time high, as well as gas prices, housing costs, food, clothing, tuition, books etc.
Virtually everything we buy or consume costs more today relative to just 25 years ago.
Jobs in all the above mentioned industries are hard to get and keep or just plain gone. Either outsourced overseas or vanished completely. We do not make steel, bolts of cloth, very few new ships or airplanes, our family farms have been replaced by large corporate mega farms, our thousands of oil wells throughout the country are capped, our once great forestry industry has been crippled by selling raw logs that are sent overseas to offshore mills.
The United States once had thousands of small timber mills nationwide supporting entire towns across the country.
Most sales related jobs have been killed by the Internet and all that seems to be left are positions at the local burger stand, grocery store or Walmart.
These do not come close to providing a living wage let alone the "American Dream". Hence, anger, frustration, resentment and hopelessness are rampant.
Our young people have turned to drugs and crime in record numbers.
African American males make up 40-45% of our national prison population yet still total less than 15% of the national population as a whole.
Welfare is out of control and young women of all races are forced to have more children to get more money.
Teenage suicide and murder rates are skyrocketing.

Not a pretty picture for most of our young people to look forward to.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO?
How can we restore the Pride and Hope and Entrepreneurship that made America one of the greatest countries in the world?
Well here is my take.
First, Let us define the industries that we are still world leaders in: Electronics and Technology Development, Medical Research and Life Saving Technology, Nanotechnology, Science and General Research and Product Development and focus major amounts of Research & Developement funds to those areas.
Second, The number one economic factor in the USA is the cost of energy. Gasoline has doubled in price at the pump in less than three years, yet wages do not cover this dramatic increase. Ditto for home heating oil, natural gas and other fuels like coal and shale.
We need to get off our dependence on foreign fuels, and the large corporations that profit from them!
We have known for 30 years of such reasonable alternatives such as Hydrogen to power cars, buses and tractor trailer rigs.
Wind mill power generators could cover huge areas of mountain ranges and vast plains.
Solar power on both personal and major scale!
( I want to know where are all the small solar collectors with small water tanks and heaters that I have seen on the roofs of houses all over the world, yet here in the USA they are rare at best!)
We need multi acre solar farms covering the vast areas of the USA that have little or no population yet ample daily sunshine!
We need to USE magnetic levitation in our public transportation systems around the country! You can blow on a "Maglev" train and watch it move!
Lastly, We could take advantage of the 6000 miles of ocean coastline and build hundreds of wave, or tidal power generators.
These generators work 24 hrs/day, 7days a week and could produce huge amounts of free and clean electricity without polluting the oceans or negatively affecting the natural habitat!

The jobs produced in building and maintaining these facilities and systems would employ hundreds of thousands of skilled, semi skilled and unskilled workers nationwide at "living wages"!
Also, No Nuclear power plants! We have not shown a consistent ability anywhere worldwide to control this option. Disasters have already occurred(Chernobile) and narrowly avoided(Three Mile Island) already.
Cost of building, maintaining and disposal are huge. Nuclear power is not an option.
So where do we GET The MONEY?
1) Lets drop or curtail the space shuttle program!
This program is nothing more than a fancy and incredibly expensive waste of time, money, resources and human life and is a thinly veiled attempt to build weapons of mass destruction in space!
2) No more aircraft carriers, new stealth weapons systems, tanks or super smart bombs! We spend altogether too much money trying to show the world that we are the "toughest kid on the block" yet no other country in the world can compete with the weapons systems that we deploy currently. Nor can they in the foreseeable future. We already bankrupted our only "Superpower Enemy" The Former Soviet Union, and they really were not our enemies anyway. China has lots of soldiers but relatively low technology armed forces.
We should all just try to get along better.
3) Get out of every other countries business! We are spending trillions of hard earned citizens tax dollars and lives on fighting little battles around the world for little if any gain for our country, citizens, worldwide esteem etc. We also send way to much aid around the world that NEVER REACHES the people who really need it.
Maybe we can help our own people first for a change and let the rest of the world fend for itself. 
4) Share the tax burden equitably! Just does not seem fair that low income people nationwide have the highest relative percentage of their income going to taxes!
A person who makes $25,000.00 per year is taxed by the Federal Government at 18-20%. Usually leaving hardly enough for food and shelter, yet most multi-millionaires and Major corporations have the wherewithal to hide, shelter or escape taxes disproportionately in relation to income generated.
Tax burden is also a leading factor in small business overhead, the killer of small business and true entrepreneurs nationwide."
 
Mr. Kennedy, Thank you for allowing me the forum to express my views and for your  valued friendship!
May Gods Goodness Shine in Your Light!
Best Wishes, Love and Peace,
Your Friend,
Jordan