Dear Mr. President

[ruggerson]

Congratulations on your first foreign foray. It looks like it was largely a huge success. Both you and your wife have managed in the space of two months to reverse a great deal of the anti American sentiment which has been prevalent abroad for eight long years. It is greatly appreciated by your fellow countrymen at home. Quite a feat!

One small favor: when you return and issue your obligatory statement on the historic Vermont marriage equality legislation, please say something along the lines of: "The Vermont legislature, being the duly elected representatives of the people of Vermont, has spoken and the President respects the decision of the people of Vermont."

Please don't add anything unnecessarily divisive and destructive such as how you believe in civil unions but think marriage is "between a man and a woman." It only feeds fuel to the fire of rightwing hate.

They didn't vote for you.

We did.

Thanks in advance, congratulations again, and welcome home!

Sincerely,

Citizen Ruggerson

[truedelphi]

1. And Mr President could you possibly issue an Executive Order undoing

Everything that your economic team from hell has done?

If Goldman Sachs had our best intersts as a nation at heart, I wouldn't ask this of you.

But Goldman Sachs doesn't have the nation's interests at heart. So spare us another four years of voodoo economics and sack that team!

[JayMusgrove]

4. And you have a way of fixing America's economy ???

Oh wait, your job is to criticize, not to give solutions that a practical.

I'd like to see every banker out of a job tomorrow, but that's impossible. Slow and steady wins the race.

[truedelphi]

7. Let the banks fail Like DU'er AdHocSolver said here:

The economy is NOT the stock market, it is NOT hedge funds, it is NOT private equity funds.

The REAL economy is DEMAND driven and is dependent on JOBS. The economy does not collapse because stock prices drop. The boom and bust in the stock market occurs because that is required for a Ponzi scheme to work.

With so many people losing their jobs, the REAL economy is going to tank anyway IN SPITE of the so-called "bailout" money being thrown down the rathole by the government. All of the supposed experts are full of manure.

Put people to work and set up trade barriers to cheap imports so that what Americans buy will be "Made in America" again. The economy is in trouble because just about everything we buy is imported, which means this country goes into debt to foreigners just to obtain the necessities of life. No economy is sustainable that is based on the trade model currently promoted by the corporations. Every argument promoted by corporations and their economist lackeys for what they call the grossly MISNAMED "free trade" is plain FALSE.

Moreover, EFCA won't help one bit if the corporations can merely ship those jobs overseas.

Labor better wise up to the fact that they are fighting the wrong battle if all they demand is the right to join a union. As soon as you get your union, your job can (and will) be shipped overseas. An unemployed union member is no better off than an employed worker who is not a union member.

The 2.9 Trillion to 8.1 trillion bucks that has been handed over to Wall Street could have just as easily gone into the formation of a new Central bank that loaned directly to the people.

As it is, this Toxic Asset Buyout Plan (IPPwhatever) will be another form of insider trading with the inevitable tale of ruin. Meanwhile our wages are devalued.

Learn a lesson from what happened back in the nineties when Clinton offered the Mexican Bankers their BailOut. Wages in that country collapsed - 87 cents down to 47 cents in just about fifteen months. Remember,t he laws of economics do not operate differently from one side of the border to the other.

But then, maybe some here can afford to have wages collapse.

[muffin1]

2. Did he add that? nt

[ruggerson]

3. here was his response to the Iowa decision:

"The President respects the decision of the Iowa Supreme Court, and continues to believe that states should make their own decisions when it comes to the issue of marriage. Although President Obama supports civil unions rather than same-sex marriage, he believes that committed gay and lesbian couples should receive equal rights under the law."

[JayMusgrove]

5. You expected, what???

He would ruin his chances of re-election in 2012 by saying something different?

[ruggerson]

8. I expect

that all good people will continue to bring pressure on him to do and say the right thing.

[muffin1]

6. Shit

I love, respect and admire Barack Obama in every area except this one. He needs to just stop this and do what is right. There is no way in this world that a man this brilliant and fair believes in discrimination. His approval rating is 66% - if not now, when? I don't understand this AT ALL.