Dear Sant' Obama

While you are doing last minute shopping, can you get these presents for me?

• Legalize drugs -- please end the chaos and waste from this failed Prohibition.
  
• Redirect the US Military to defense and stop supporting illiberal dictators.
  
• Trade with everyone (Cuba, Iran, et al.), freely. Yes, unilateral trade liberalization.
  
• Protect people (not jobs or industries) via portable health care, pensions and unemployment support.
  
• Get religion out of government (abortion, prayer, etc.) -- those are private matters!
  
• Kill the farm bill. If we are going to bribe farm states, just send them money.
  
• Implement a carbon tax, unilaterally.
  
• Decentralize MANY government functions to states (support the 10th Amendment!), i.e., education, welfare, infrastructure, etc.
  
• End corporate taxes and move regulation to agencies that are harder to bribe.
  
• Reform income taxes (flat, with an exemption) and payroll taxes (switch social security from pay as you go)
  
• Close Guanto and end shameful practices that are ruining (have ruined?) our reputation as a "shining city on the hill"
  
• Promote 100% government transparency -- retroactively!
  
• ... and a puppy (just kidding on that one!)

Bottom Line: We can't shoot too high when we are asking, but we can shoot too high in what we are expecting.