President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Washington, DC 20500

            As a teenager in the United States of America, I realize that the choices that the government makes now will ultimately affect my college admission, career choice, future marriage, children, and retirement. Concerning your recent stimulus package, it is a scary thought as to what the future could hold for my generation. This means that spending decisions must be made carefully and with much review.

            When you were campaigning against John McCain, I remember that I disagreed with many of your viewpoints regarding abortion, same-gender marriage, and gun rights. However, many of your promises seemed to be a spark of a bit of hope in my mind. As I began to research these promises, I found that what you were promising was beyond your reach. You are not Jesus Christ, Santa Claus, or Harry Potter, so you can’t simply snap your fingers and fix the country like your platform seemed to say. When you achieved office, you passed an economic stimulus package, estimated to be between $787 billion all the way to $1.3 trillion dollars by the time my generation receives the bill.

            As a teenager who is going to be paying for this stimulus package for the rest of my life, spending money so liberally like this deeply concerns me. One of your many promises while campaigning was that you would not put future generations in debt. With the stimulus package, this is exactly what you are doing. Should God not take us off of the Earth by then, my great grandchildren will be paying for this stimulus package. The primary function of an economic stimulus package is to stimulate the economy. However, many things in the stimulus package will not help to stimulate the economy in any way.

            The stimulus package includes billions of dollars being wasted on things that are not going to stimulate the economy. Examples of this are honey bee insurance and fish passage barriers. While we need honey bees to pollinate plants, helping them with a stimulus package has nothing to do with stimulating the economy. The only thing fish passage barriers are going to do is give people the small job of building them.