The politicos that make speeches to AIPAC and praise them as well as promising to protect "their state" at all costs, should be asking themselves what Israel has really done for the USA.  

Dear President Obama:

Childhood cancer is the number one killer disease of our children today: More than from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and pediatric AIDS combined.  Our children, your children, have a 1 in 300 chance of being diagnosed with cancer before age 20.  Each school day, 46 more children are diagnosed.  Survival rates, while improving, have leveled at around 75%; and each day 7 children die from cancer.  In addition, each day, nearly 40,000 children are in treatment.

Treatments for childhood cancer have not changed for 20 years, with "down-sized" adult treatments being the primary means.   These treatments leave 60% of the SURVIVORS with long-term health issues ranging from infertility to developmental problems to major organ damage to higher risk for secondary cancers.  

Yet funding for our children's number one killer is woefully inadequate.   Our generation has mobilized against breast, color and prostate cancer, yet we have grossly failed our children in funding improvements in their care.   Funding for research into prostate cancer is over $2000 for each year of potential life lost.  Similarly, colon cancer and breast cancer receive approximately $350 and $150 respectively for each year of potential life lost.  Childhood cancer receives about $23 for each year of potential life lost.   We are ashamed.

I did not know this until Father’s Day 2007 when my 14 year old son AJ was diagnosed with cancer.   He was a happy, healthy, athletic young man that was a joy to be around.  He supported you.  Unfortunately, in December 2008, I was forced to answer a question I hope no other Dad ever hears: “Dad, what is hospice?”  AJ left us on January 5, 2008. 

But as promised, we fight back.   I, along with an incredible young woman who has survived childhood cancer, have founded People Against Childhood Cancer, or PAC2 (www.curechildhoodcancer.ning.com).  In four months we are over 3,000 strong and will never stop on behalf of the children we love. We seek ways to increase funding for this horrible elephant in the room that America refuses to acknowledge.  

The NCI and the American Cancer Society direct less than 3% of all funding to childhood cancer.    Last year, a huge victory for the childhood cancer community was the Carolyn Price Conquer Childhood Cancer Act, allocating $25 million for the next five years for childhood cancer research.   In today’s world of billions and trillions, much of it going to those that barely deserve it, I again have to be ashamed. 

We are not protecting the youngest and most innocent of our society to the best of our abilities.  You have the power to directly fund more research in your budget.  Please consider including a major line item in your budget to fund research to save our children.   We are sure Malia Ann and Natasha would approve.  

Sincerely,

Bob Piniewski and Lori Keith
Founders – People Against Childhood Cancer

Mr. President, we want to take this unique opportunity to reach you early on about something potentially deeper and more important than even the financial crisis or the War on Terror.  I am talking about the culture of lies in Washington, where truth is suppressed for political and personal gain.  You have a mandate from the American people to do business differently.  You have promised to level with us about the hard choices we will face together.  You have promised to tell us the truth, and you come to us not a moment too soon.

Mr. President – Tell us the Truth about the extraterrestrial presence on this planet and release as much relevant information to the American people as possible within reasonable constraints of national security.  It is time for the people of the world to know the truth about the universe they inhabit. 

Maintaining the veil of secrecy regarding the extraterrestrial presence has cost the United States untold fortunes, but more importantly has undermined our faith in government and has led to abuses of secrecy and power.  How many hundreds of billions of dollars have fallen off the CBO radar screen in black projects with no federal legislative oversight?  As you go through the Federal Budget line by line, what will you do when you reach these items?  Some previous Presidents may have found themselves at the same crossroads, willing in theory to pursue a path of disclosure, but were unwilling to tackle the layers of intelligence obstacles put in their way.  They may have felt the political cost was too high.  What will you do?  You may be told “Curiosity on the part of the President is not sufficient to warrant an answer to your inquiry”.  That will be the real test of your presidency - behind closed doors, with possibly only your closest advisors knowing your response.  Or – we will all know, because you have courage, and you have faith in the strength of the American People to handle the Truth, and you will tell the world.

It is time.

Do not accept “no” for an answer Mr. President – There is NOTHING that should be hidden from you as our representative.  Nothing.  No exceptions.  There will obviously be valid national security items that must be safeguarded and non-disclosed for our safety.  We trust you to keep us safe Mr. President, and we will accept whatever non-disclosures you feel are necessary.  But we need the basic Truth disclosed now.

Until this “Truth Embargo” is ended there will be no public access to technologies derived from extraterrestrial vehicles in this critical time of mounting economic and environmental challenges.  Now is the time to release into the public domain extraterrestrial-derived technologies, secretly studied and reverse engineered for sixty years, which are now essential to overcome the environmental, economic and social challenges of our time.  

Have faith in us Mr. President, as we have demonstrated our faith in you. 

We can handle it.