-In 1933, President FDR started his presidential campaign in the midst of the depression. What tactics or decisions did he make that you will use in your economic plan?
- In your Washington Post article, you said, " People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring." In your opinion, what will tomorrow bring?
- How can you use your popularity to get us out of this recession?
- At what point will you announce that our recession has turned into a depression?
- What are the main differences between our recession now between The Long Depression (1873-1896)? The Great Depression (1929-1939)?
- What specific actions can we take now to ensure we don't end in anything worse than the great depression?
-How are you handling the pressure put on you to fix the economy?
-What are your fears on what will happen if you fail at fixing our economy?
- What measures will you use to judge your success?
- How do you think the economy is affecting our troops in Iraq?
- What plans can we implement in order to end our recession?
- In your 2009 stimulus plan, your officials announced that they would like Congress to direct 40 percent of the stimulus bill toward tax breaks aimed at businesses and middle-class workers. What are you hoping to accomplish?
- Some businesses would "receive incentives to create jobs and make equipment purchases more affordable." What would some of these incentives be?
- What is there so much urgency after eight years of the Bush administration's do-nothing attitude? How could this effect the quality of America?
- "Given the concerns that we have over the size of this package and all of the spending in this package, we don’t think it’s going to work,” the House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio said. What are your reactions to this? What can you do to persuade them into accepting your idea? How does their disapproval change or alter the stimulus plan?
- Senator John McCain said “We need to make tax cuts permanent, and we need to make a commitment that there’ll be no new taxes. We need to cut payroll taxes. We need to cut business taxes.” How is this different from your economic stimulus?
- Lawrence Summers, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, states that “The next few months are, no question, going to be very, very difficult and it may be longer than that." What are you hoping to accomplish?
- How much faith and trust do you have in our American Government to stand by you and follow after your lead?
-Republicans, who never hesitated to spend hundreds of billions of dollars into the Iraq war, are hesitant about spending an equivalent amount to help us face this awful crisis and invest in the future?
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"List of recessions in the United States: Information from Answers.com." Answers.com - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more. 6 Feb. 2009
"Barack Obama - The Action Americans Need - washingtonpost.com." washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines. 6 Feb. 2009
Alpers, ron. "Letters - The Showdown Over the Stimulus - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 9 Feb. 2009. 12 Feb. 2009
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