Dear Mr. Obama, Dear Gov. Kaine: you asked for my economic crisis - recovery story

For BJ Mesterman, wherever you are:

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Abbe Buck ABPA (703) 753-4100 wrote:

From: Abbe Buck ABPA (703) 753-4100
Subject: Re: Your economic crisis story - I borrowed $10 K from a 19 year old
To: info@barackobama.com
Cc: abbe@highviz.net
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:55 AM

Dear Mr. Obama, Mr. Plouffe, Mitch, Gov. Kaine (D-VA),   I almost lost my business after 10 years.   My husband and I borrowed $10,000 from our son's college savings for our morgage. AFTER he lost $10,000 of this money in his mutual fund. Fortunately, we took out the entire $22,000 that was left when we borrowed the 10K.   It proves we raised our boy well. Why? He has decided to go for his doctorate - in History.   My son is 19.   Bleak times. But!  I wish I could help you bolster your boss to speak more optimistically. ((((How about the 'seedlings of recovery" stories?)))))   Thanks, Mitch!   Abbe Buck, DC Metro (703) 753-4100   ABPA "We Can Do It!"   Abbe Buck / APR / PAO / ABPA fyi* HighViz is now doing business as Abbe Buck Public Affairs http://wwwpublicaffairsoffice.blogspot.com / www.publicaffairsoffice.org 1-800-380-2825  / (703) 753-4100                  --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com wrote: From: Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com <info@barackobama.com> Subject: Your economic crisis story To: "Abbe Buck " Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 1:23 PM Abbe -- Americans have organized Economic Recovery House Meetings in all 50 states -- including 382 in California, 255 in Florida, 115 in Ohio, 199 in New York, 105 in Washington, and 149 in Texas. That's more than 3,587 meetings in 1,579 cities and 429 congressional districts. This past weekend, meeting hosts and guests watched a video of Governor Tim Kaine answering your questions about the president's recovery plan. Then they shared their own stories about how the crisis has affected them. Watch Governor Kaine's video and share your economic crisis story. The media is filled with numbers about the economic crisis. But the numbers do not tell the full story. The story of this crisis is in homes across the country -- homes where a family member has lost a job, where parents are struggling to pay a mortgage, and where college tuition has slipped out of reach. That's also where the story of our recovery begins -- in communities where repairing roads and bridges, manufacturing green technologies, and rehabilitating our schools and hospitals will directly impact the lives of ordinary people and their families. President Obama's recovery plan will help struggling families right now by saving or creating up to 4 million jobs. But it will also help strengthen our economy for the future by investing in crucial infrastructure projects in health care, education, and energy. Share your story about how this economic crisis is affecting you and your family and join your fellow Americans in supporting bold action to speed our recovery: http://my.barackobama.com/sharestories Thank you for organizing so much support at this crucial moment for our country, Mitch Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to: ABBE To unsubscribe, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/unsubscribe

This is not a test. The TVA, CCC, WPA, alphabet soup are coming back, new millenia style BIGGER BAILOUT - read on, macduff, from WAPO, no more jokes.

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Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion
Spending Package Would Rival Financial System Bailout

By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2008; A01

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years.

That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country's financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

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My favorite Prez (F D R) returns with the NEW NEW DEAL! Hooray! GREAT TIME MAG COVER!

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been reincarnated as Barack Hussein Obama!
  

• John McCain will become the head of D H S! / or part of the new "Brain Trust"*

WAIT!  There's more!

• Doris Kearns Goodwin will become oh-fficial WHO EOP historian!
  

• The Chicago Mafia will make sure that ALL hot dogs will be Vienna, boiled,with hot peppers, celery salt, tomato, sweet relish, yellow mustard, pickles and red onions (must be red!) and on a steamed seeded bun! OR they will answer to (my cousin) Rahmbo Emanuel, who may be a new Harry Hopkins
  

and Rush Limbaugh, who has been losing his voice on the air today, will be SILENCED.

Ah, so.......

fair-ness = doc--trine?

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ps: I have not framed a time cover since the late mr. s. (Sinatra) in 1998

* *   FDR's Brain(s) Trust

The New Deal witnessed an increased role for intellectuals in government. The Brains Trust, a term coined by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, refers to the group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign. Initially, the term applied to three Columbia University professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Within a few months, Basil ("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson would join the group. These men would quickly help FDR develop an economic plan whose programs became the backbone of the New Deal: regulation of bank and stock activity, large scale relief and public works programs for people living in both urban and rural areas.

Moley, a professor of government and law who recruited the group, argued that a regressive tax (a flat tax all citizens pay: sales taxes, a flat tax on specific amount of salary, etc.) was the only way to rebuild the economy. Tugwell shaped much of the administration's agricultural policy, believing that the key to easing some of the depression's hardships lay in the ability of the federal government to address the growing imbalance between wages and prices. However, Berle rejected the idea of a planned economy per se, but suggested a "new economic constitutional order," that would include a larger federal role in the balancing of the economy.

In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws. One of the most important initiatives was the Banking Act of 1933, which put an end to the banking panic. After the Brains Trust defended its reform recovery program in 1933, it disbanded to make room for other advisers and lawyers capable of legislative draftsmanship.

For more information of the Brains Trust, visit the following web sites:

• "The New Deal Years" in Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President of the Century on the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute website

Copyright © 2003. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. All rights reserved. 

What would Franklin do?

Is it of epic proportions?

Click To Hear Original Speech (FDR in 1933)

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