codyg1985’s Think Tank

As I am typing this the last few minutes of 2005 are ticking away. The new year is a time of hope, and I wish for everyone to have a great and wonderful new year. Here are some of my wishes for the new year:

• Let’s lower the number of troops in Iraq. Hopefully the situation in Iraq will stabalize to the point to where we start bringing our troops home.
• Rebuild New Orleans. It would be a shame if the Crescent City was left to rot away due to a lack of help. Let’s rebuild the city and restore it to its former glory. Let’s also rebuild the levees so that they are able to withstand a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.
• Focus on education in the state of Alabama and across the nation. Asian countries are producing more engineering graduates per year than the United States. The Bush administration and Republicans in congress have succeeded in cutting back funding for Federal Student Aid for college students. This will only help to discourage even more prospective students from attending college. What kind of society that will be produced in the future depends on how much we invest in the education of our citizens.
• Fix social security so that seniors don’t have to choose between groceries and medicine. It is unfathomable that senior citizens that have worked an honest living all of their lives are being told to choose between food and medicine. That is exactly what is happening these days, and the government’s confusing options for Medicare isn’t helping matters. The social security system should be more reliable so that the burden of maintaining pension funds for workers is taken off the hands of companies.

I have a lot more that I could say, but this computer is slow, and I don’t want to write a novel. Have a great and wonderful 2006 everyone!