Semester TWO, Blog #11

Dear Mr. President Barrack Obama,

We are facing a great recession that has affected all of us. People are losing hope in your promise of reconstructing our economy, and we need to take action now to help stop this. The sad thing about this is that we have learned nothing from our passed mistakes, demonstrating that History does tend repeat it self. Our country went trough a every similar depression in 1929, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s modern ideas and open mind helped recover our economy. We need to act similar to Franklin Roosevelt focusing on what he called the 3 R’s “That is, relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression”. I think we are wasting a lot of money on trying to “fix’s” México drug war.

In my humble opinion, the best way to “fix” the problem is by legalizing weed this will reduce rapid growth of drug trafficker’s that has sadly become a new fashion style among teenagers. Also legalizing weed could start knew jobs in United States like its starting to do in California. During the prohibition ear in the 1920 some people started taking advantage of the situation that wanted to get money faster by bootlegging. Franklin D Roosevelt released that legalizing alcohol will benefit our country’s economy a lot more. Many new legal jobs were built from manufacturing to export. To recover the economy jobs need to be built, Franklin D Roosevelt started new organizations that built jobs that benefited the people that where affected the most. The REA one of the many organizations he formed during his first term as president “new deal”. This organization gave jobs to the people that put in the electricity in rural parts of United States and it also gave jobs for the farmer because with the new technology they could work more productive. Other organization helped places improve education in these parts of the country.

Today, in our time we can go to rural parts of united states and but electrical because mostly like every one has it know¬– but we still need to build jobs it’s a fundamental step we need to take to get out of this recession 11% percent of more of are population is unemployed and are taxes are going to help them when we can simply save the money by encourage small business owner to grow and offer more jobs.The war in Iraq has only benefited some– but it has affected more. According to warresister.org 36% percent of our taxes goes to the military war, and we have spend billions, when that could spend on education our number one priority. This war needs to end. Most of our country including I don’t really understand what we are doing there. We also need to make sure that the people we are giving welfare to really need it and just making it temporally. This will eventually force people to work instead of being lazy and just depend on the government for money. Mr. President Obama, I have hope in you– I know that either way we will get out of this recession but we need to do it soon not let it fix’s it self like Hoover believed it will.

Sincerely
Magda Aguirre


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