20 Minutes With Obama

Twenty minutes to speak with the president? An entire twenty? It sounds unrealistic, and yet it is the opportunity of a lifetime. To me though, there's way too many problems with our country for us to even have every single important one covered in a span of twenty minutes. There are two in particular that greatly concern me though.

Issue #1 We'd Discuss: Solutions and ecosystem friendly sources of energy. If we could find a way to produce cheap energy which was not finite, and could be recycled, wouldn't the prices of just about everything go down, and that could combat the entire -World-'s inflation problem? Energy goes into everything. Energy affects everything. What is going to happen to all of us when we run out of energy?

Issue #2 We'd Discuss: Our education, the education system of America as a whole, is slowly and steadily declining. Americans become stupider and more ignorant with each generation compared to people from other countries, who just plain old put so much more effort into their education! Students from Japan, India, even China where the government doesn't have the funds to do great things; Those students are all excelling greatly compared to Americans, and people compete for jobs world-wide now at the big companies where they'll actually be paid the salary that they want.

Part Two:
In four years, I don't see our country bieng all that different, to be honest. The entire world has been preaching about the importance of recycling and renewable energy for decades now, and yet we're still greatly dependent on oil which we see by the still increasing prices. In fact, demand for oil is -increasing-, not -decreasing- like it needs to be, since China is slowly becoming an industrialized nation like us.

Part Three:
In forty years, I expect myself to be dead. Or not living a happy life. I'd kinda prefer the whole -not- living to my forties thing?
My father claims I'm just like my mother in attitude, a few of our physical attributes, ect.. And I can tell right now, that she is truly unhappy with her life. Mother and Father fight. Father constantly complains about how he knows we're in a lot of debt as a family, and whines about how Mother doesn't act like she loves him anymore. In fact, I doubt she does. The two of them -both- complain about the faults the other has, when they've known about these faults and difficulties about each other since the start of their relationship. This constant conflict, bickering, and bitching the two of them do, is just stressful to live around. I'd be absolutely devastated if things turned into that with Chris and I, if we were able to even stay as a couple until our forties.
It makes me very sad to think about not loving the most important person in my life, anymore. It makes me sad to think about being compared to someone that isn't happy and isn't the greatest person in the world. I'm not all that great either, but I don't want to wind up like her.
So hopefully when I'm in my forties, I'll be a decaying corpse under a blanket of soil. I'll be one happy corpse. :)