1st priority issue needing to be addressed

The president needs to reign in the government (since the president is formally in charge of the government) reagrding the erosion of our constitutional rights. Plus, make the government live up to the compact it made with Americans that formed the US Constitution.

Reign in - eroding our the rights of Americans in the name of finding terrorists, god, or anything else. The government can hunt terrorists without taking away the rights (privacy and due process for example) of Americans. If it is ok for terrorists, well what about other mass murder cases? This is what terrorists are, there is no difference. Since mass murderers could be lurking anywhere in gangs, in schools, McDonalds, the post office, that would mean no Americans should have any rights because we have to find these mass murderers before they strike! They are already in our country! Abandon all freedom before we are all killed.

WRONG. Needs to stop. That is not to say our best efforts should not go toward crime prevention and securing our country. It should just stop happening at the expense of constitutional rights violations!

Establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and scure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

That is the compact that society gave up unlimited personal freedoms for the creation and support of our government. The government needs to promote justice for all - equitably. The government is exempt from many of the laws that govern our country and that is wrong.

Tranquility - just mention voting and people start freaking.

Common defense - $1 trillion spent on national security and anti-terrorism and we have nothing to show for it - we don't know who is in our country illegally; our ground sea and air borders are still just as insecure as ever. However, this is not just warfare threats, this includes natural disaster threats - hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, bird flu pandemic, global warming.

General welfare - our secondary schools are awful, hospitals are closing, libraries are begging for money directly from the public to stay open, our roads, waterways, and levees - they are in disrepair.

secure liberty - fiscal irresponsibility is going to leave a mark on us now and for the future. Because as the competition in the global arena heats up our debt will no longer be financed by other countries and our economy will crumble/collapse. When this will happen is the only question if we do not fix the issue.

Overall, the government is failing miserably on all fronts regarding the us constitution