Ethiopian Review's List of Top 10 Things President Barack Obama should do during his first 100 days in office
1. Give the genocidal regime in Ethiopia 6 months to release all political prisoners, lift all restrictions on the press, allow the formation of an independent elections committee that is composed of representatives of opposition parties, and hold a new election within one year. Or else, cut all financial and military support, impose travel ban on Woyanne officials, and freeze their assets in the U.S.
2. Issue an executive order allowing immigrant families in the U.S. who are separated from their loved ones in foreign countries to unite immediately. Some families have been separated for over 5 years for no reason other than bureaucratic backlogs.
3. Introduce a legislation to the U.S. Congress that will eliminate the current tax code (thousands of pages) and replace it with a one page law that sets a 15 percent tax for every one who makes $30,000 or more. Those who make less than $30,000 per year will pay no federal income tax. They will pay only local sales taxes. This will help stimulate the economy, generate more tax revenue, and reduce the size of the government.
4. Introduce a program that will retrofit all federal buildings with solar panels.
5. Release from prison those who are incarcerated for non-violent (also known as victimless) crimes such as insider trading. Instead, make those convicts work certain hour per week to pay the society for the crimes they committed. This will help reduce the 2 million U.S. prison population by a significant number, without letting those who violate the law go unpunished.
6. Authorize NASA to launch a mission to land man on the planet Mars. Invite the private sector to help fund the mission.
7. Reaffirm citizen's the right to bear arm by encouraging states to abolish gun permits. Only those who are convicted criminals should lose their right to bear arm.
8. Reaffirm that the Internet will remain a tax free zone by signing a pledge.
9. Organize a White House-sponsored annual science fair, in collaboration with the private sector, where top 10 inventors will receive up to $100 million.
10. Eliminate visa requirements for Ethiopians for helping Obama win Virginia (wishful thinking).
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I hope Obama and his group know what they are doing.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Out of the ten to do lists some are attainable. But you reminded of a joke. When Hailesellassie witnessed the launching of Apollo 11, he flew back home and gathered his cabine. He reminded all of them that this was happening in their watch. He asked them how old the U.S. was and he reminded them with his shaky and lound voice, Ethiopia is a 3000 years old country; therefore, you must perform as such. Now I order my cabinet to prepare the lauching of space rocket to the sun. You must launch the rocket at night. I want to see this in few months. The reason Haileselassie wanted the launching at night was because he was worried about the sun melting the rocket. This is just a funny joke but I know Haileselassie was one of the most genius man that the world has ever seen. Again on today you have a to do list for Obama about man on mars. That will be a very long time to come to reality. I still believe you are smart, if not as smart as Hailesellassie.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Yes, Elias!
November 25th, 2008 at 6:46 AM
Welcome to 3rd term bill Clinton administration .the way I see Obama heading that way. And He is promising too much. Mark my word a lot of people will be disappointed and will cry for the next four years.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Elias,
It is a great list, especially the first one should be done so quickly as soon as he steps in to the white house. However, there are still a lot of set backs from the opposition sides that elongated the life span of woyanne. The moron Hailu Shawel still continue his divisive role in Ethiopia by collaborating his dirty duty with his foreign ministers of EPRP eyasu destructive groups, to cripple the struggle for the second time that is reactivated by UDJ and Ginbot 7.
So I would say, obama can do what is expected to do on his part to abandon the weyane criminal groups, in the mean time we ethiopians should continue to support strong oppositions along with the counter attack of both the weyane criminal groups and the EPRP retiree destructive groups to ultimately achieve our goal to bring the basic human rights and rule of law in our country.
Shame on hailu shawel and his eprp remnants under his skirt.
Death to all members, blind and racist supporters and hodam cadres of weyane.
Viva Ginbot7 and the struggle continues…
November 25th, 2008 at 9:04 AM
elia,
And who are you to give a to do list for the president of USA?
And in your mind the priority is the interest of Ethiopia but not the USA.
Pls. get a life – and give President Obama a break! While you are at it, please also advise the know it all and expert in everything Prof. Al Marian & Prof. Mesfin w/m to get a life and do something important to their life and people than endlessly writing about him.
Ethiopians also should mind their own business and fight the TPLF mercenary than enlessly talking about President Obama. Obama is there for the USA first. So it doesn't matter if he has a blood linkage to Gojjam and Kenya, for him it is always America that comes first.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:54 AM
None of the items you have presented in your 'to do list' really represents the tasks obama himself has pledged and elected for. You should know that Obama is not elected for solving Ethiopian issues. You should stop crying for foreigners to come to solve Ethiopian internal issues.
It is Ethiopians themselves to get the relevant guts to bring changes in their country. This applies also to all other African countries who think Obama is elected to clean their backyards.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Take it east guys, the to do list is just a wish that, Obama could have done if he was really going out of his way to help.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Unfortunately, there is Hilary to spoil it.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:09 PM