Mr. President, please. There is a different way. PLEASE do this...

[debbierlus]

First, Obama gets out on television and invites every major news major league person to come PERSONALLY. Plus, top ranking economists lined in the background from every major academia in the nation

Then, he takes Paul Krugman's advice and he announces to the nation (& the big news honchos), THE REPUBLICANS ARE PLACING THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY AT RISK...He should then say, I made a committment to bipartisanship with this election. But, I made a bigger committment to the people. The Republicans have shown they do not have a willingness to BE bipartisan, and the country can not afford to waste valuable time catering to a party that continues to put political games above solving the nation's problems. The American people are fed up and so am I.

Right now, we stand on the edge of an economic cliff. If we do not stand up and help the American people now, the entire American citizenry faces a economic catastophe rivaling, if not worse, then the Great Depression. The top economists agree on this - helping the people is the solution. We need to finance the people. We need to nationalize the banks and control their actions until they can be fincially solvent through private, not public finance. The people should be getting paid for their investment, not held hostage by banks with loan shark lending practices with fees and unethical interest rates.

It is time to put the citizens of this nation above the corporate welfare. We have an entire people financing the wealth of a very few and the American people have been so abused by this system, they finally can't keep pace with its greed. Americans have long been working harder and longer hours just to keep pace, and instead of treating the people with just a crumb of decency, they took and took more. And, now they have broken the engine that keeps them operating. They have broken the people.

This can not go on. As President, I can not allow it to go on. So, here is my new emergency economic plan. It keeps all the spending portion of the bill. It cuts all but tax cuts directly to the middle & lower class citizens. It repeals all the Bush tax cuts because the nation needs funding and those who are privileged have a duty to help their nation during severe crisis.

The center piece of my plan will be investment in the American people.

My plan caps all credit card interest rate at 0% for the next year. Thereafter, the credit lenders will be able to charge no more then 10% interest. Banks will stop all foreclosure processes. All the banks will be required to renegotiate their mortgage loan, offering everyone with mortgages (not just those on the verge of foreclosure) a drop in interest rates on their loans. The maximum mortgage rate will be 5%. For everyone.

Secondly, I have increased the amount of spending on infrastructure problems. The nation is backlogged with infrastructure projects that could go immediately forward, if financed. Spreading money to these projects will immediately create jobs and get spending back into the economy.

Another key component will be the introduction of my health plan, a plan that will be based on a universal and single payer health CARE plan. The nation's main physicians & nurses unions all support a single payer universal health system. These top economists believe that fixing the nation's economy requires fixing the nation's health care. Next week, we will have the top economists, physicians, and health care experts in the nation presenting a live conference on the web and television about the need for a universal health care system.

Thank you

(Actual speech would also include green energy with a bill signed before 2010, the grid, & other key components of current bill.

[EraOfResponsibility]

1. did you send this to change.gov?

or does the President read DU?

[KaryninMiami]

2. And he would close with something like...

And this is only the beginning. We made a promise to the American people that we were not going to "win the game" in Washington politics- we promised that we were going to "change the game" and it starts right now. Enough of this partisan stupidity- we have no time for this now. Step up to the plate - you were elected by the people for the people so now it's time for each of you to Put America First.

[HOLOS]

3. Beautiful ...Thanks...Agree Totally!!

[FirstLight]

4. Hell YEAH -

Win the game by calling ou the players and telling the whole country the GAME is oVER!

PLease send this to the WH website, if you want, let's get a bunch of signatures, look on whitehouse.gov or change .org and let's send this out to our local groups tht are still online and having gatherings!

[amborin]

5. agree! Krugman has been urging this for two weeks!

[Solomon]

6. I like it, but I think it's still too early for this.

He's winning already. I would save this kind of salvo fof another point in the road. If he's got the votes, why not let them self-explode on themselves. They're already looking pretty stupid and ruining their reputation with the public. I wouldn't stop this to get into a food fight with them right now. Good post.

[debbierlus]

10. He isn't winning. They conceded 40% of the stimulus bill to a party everyone hates

There is no 'winning' by bipartisanship. It won't work because the Republicans are not vested in governing. And, we are heading off a cliff....

If not now, when?

[BlooInBloo]

16. Don't bother.

[Danger Mouse]

18. Indeed. That one was marked long ago.

[truedelphi]

7. Yep

HELL YEAH

[leftstreet]

8. "But I don't think your Congresspeople will let me do this. Soooo.....

I need as many of you as possible to come to DC and stand in front of their offices until they get the message that you agree with me."

That would do it.

[debbierlus]

11. Brilliant! He just needs to LEAD. Cut the bipartisan bs, it won't work.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. K&R

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Good advice.

[democrattotheend]

13. I don't know about 0% interest on credit cards

For one thing, that could drive more banks to fail. Two, doesn't that just encourage people to run up more credit card debt and buy more things they can't afford?

I like some of your other ideas but it sounds like pie in the sky.

[Hutzpa]

14. Wonderful debs, I sure do hope he sees this,

if he uses this type of approach watch and see what happens in 2010.

They will literally implode..(republican party that is)

Bravo!!

:thumbsup:

[Occam Bandage]

15. "My plan caps all credit card interest rate at 0% for the next year."

"You see, I intend to personally oversee the immediate destruction of the American banking system, while simultaneously encouraging Americans to bury themselves deeper in debt."

Seriously, who do you expect will pay for all those purchases? Who will cover the cost of those mortgages? Is the government simply going to take over the entire banking/credit industry wholesale?

[Danger Mouse]

17. ROFL, I'd pay cash money to hear Obama say that.

:hide:

[debbierlus]

19. I should have included the caveat - all EXISTING debt...The goal is to stop the loan shark practices