Dear President Bush,

There are those who criticize you for invoking God in your speeches but please take heart, we know you are a deeply religious man and, if you believe that God has blessed the United States of America, then surely God *has* blessed the United States of America. Not only with His Presence but yours as well. Accordingly I have a few recommendations for National Policy to make this country reflect that we are graced.

First, eliminate any Departments associated with Health. We don't need them. Faith is enough for healing. I've seen it on television. There are these preachers who will heal cancer, deafness, back aches, everything! And get this - they do it for free!! Some of these preachers can heal right over television. Now that's convenience! Think how much we'll save on Medicare. We won't need hospitals, or ambulances waking us up at odd hours. We won't need Doctors and that whole icky malpractice issue would disappear. We won't need the drug companies or their overpriced drugs. We'll just need faith.

Second, eliminate any Departments associated with Science and Education. We don't need them. God is the answer:

Why is the sky blue? God!

Why does an apple fall down from the tree? God.

Who created God? God!

See? So much easier than dealing with atoms, Plutarch, and sentence diagrams. The creationists have it right. God created everything - so simple and easier to understand than that evolution stuff. Men from monkeys -pffft! Believe you me, the tests scores of our children will increase tremendously when the answer to every question is God. We just have to teach the little critters "G before D". The whole school voucher problem will also disappear; we won't need public schools. We won't have to worry about teachers not getting the respect and salaries they deserve because we won't need them as well. We'll have preachers do the teaching and they can receive a tax exempt stipend for their generosity in helping parents raise our kids as god-fearing folk.

Get rid of NASA. No more shuttles - no more shuttle explosions. Besides who cares what's out there. Life on other planets is just another manifestation of God so we won't need to explore "just to satisfy our curiosity". With the savings from shutting NASA we could buy another nuclear submarine.

But these are just initial ideas. I'm sure as President you can come up with far more reaching changes resulting in enough savings that you could offer another tax cut. I really appreciated the $50 I got from your last tax cut. I used it to buy a leather-bound gilt-edged George W. Bush Bible that I read to my kids from at bedtime. You should see the tears in their eyes when I tell them that the picture in the front isn't God but you - President George W. Bush - a real American.

Could you use this in a speech: "We must as a nation make a firm commitment to our faith in God to let our greatness reflect his greatness. Let us kneel down together and pray to Jesus Christ - our savior." I'd be honored if you would use it and America is ready as a unified nation under your leadership to accept your religion as the official and only religion of the U.S.

In closing I propose a final recommendation. To demonstrate to the world irrefutably and conclusively that God has truly blessed the U.S. of A., I beg you to travel to the front lines of Iraq. Get to the very front as we approach Baghdad and in a loud clear voice representing our great nation, invoke God to smite our enemies with a pillar of fire. He's done it before and it'd look spectacular on wide screen with THX Dolby SurroundSound. Please President Bush - do this for us as blessed Americans!!

Yours,

Little Mr Mahatma