What Should I Ask President Obama?

When Mr. Obama was running for president, one of his promises was to stop offshoring of our jobs. 1 local congressional candidate is addressing this issue, again in his campaign, but why is noone touching on this subject and why are companies continuing to offshore jobs. As long as jobs are offshored our economy will not get any better. Where is our government with this issu?

Please remind the public that we need to look at the big picture. We are a nation that always wants instant gratification. Our President has stopped us from a deep depression and he is working on getting us out of a recession. Tell my President Thank You for what he’s done. Everyone needs to know that they are appreciated. God Bless our President.

George, I find it incredible that the president is being so critical of the Republicans. Let’s review. The Democrats took over Congress on Jan/3/01. At that time the Dow was 12,621.77. The GDP was 3.5% Unemployment was 4.6% Bush administration set a record of 52 months straight for job creation. The economic meltdown occurred 13 months later as the Democrats dumped 5-6 trillion dollars of toxic loans on the economy from the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiascos. Bush asked the Congress 17 times to stop Fannie and Freddie in 01. Obama took the 3d highest payoff from Freddie and Fannie and then fought against Freddie and Fannie reform.
Why is he now continualy bashing the Republicans for the economic condition. How are we suppose to support him now?

Please ask the Pres. about the moratorium on offshore drilling. Please do not accept a brief answer on this. I am a Democrat, but cannot support someone who seems to have it out for my beautiful state. The last incident in the Gulf was minor, everything worked as it should have, no oil leak, no lives lost. Ask him why coal mining has been shut down, or flying, etc. I thought he wanted to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Well, Mr. President, which is it?? Will you be walking everywhere…what does air force one run on?

George: to correct my previous comment, I meant to say “why coal mining has not been shut down”

President Obama,
You were originally concerned about our dependency on foreign oil.
We have an abundance of natural gas and gas shale here in the U.S. Why are we not going after this natural resource and converting our trucking industry to natural gas?
Thaine Manske

Please ask Pres. Obama why, when virtually every non-union private sector has had to cut pay and pension contributions, unions are not being forced to do the same? Why is it up to the taxpayers to constantly bail them out while unions are not making any real consessions?

your kidding right?! The press doesn’t like Obama? The press doesn’t say anything nice about Obama? OMG! They got the man elected and keep covering for his sorry ars! What more do you people want them to do? They only report on White House approved stories and repeat only White House approved propaganda! Should they wipe his nose and tie his shoes too? Will that be enough for you lemmings?

I would like to know where and what part of the country are these “so-called” ABC News polls taken from? I’ve never been asked a question about how well the President is doing. I think he’s doing the best he can do given the circumstances under which he took this office. It seems now that President Obama is in office everything is his fault. We’ve somehow forgotten how we got into this mess in the first place…greed, greed and more greed. Take away from the middle class and poor and give to the rich. I don’t think Mr. Obama had anything to do with that. Then there are those wars. Iraq and Afghanistan….whose idea that was?

Some how I think you’ll lob softball questions to him, because, well, you are part of the lame stream media that will NEVER question him.
But, here we go:
Mr. President, how does your policies help small businesses? How will increasing their taxes (sunset of Bush’s tax cuts, pending Obamacare, etc.) help them as well as the economy? Without a strong private sector, there is no public sector and entitlement programs. Why are small businesses demonized by this administration? They provide jobs and much needed support throughout their communities, yet all of your upcoming policies tend to stifle their growth big. Also, Mr. President, why should they hire when they don’t know what they will be hit with next? Why should they be confident about the next two years?
Also, you might want to point out to the president that small businesses don’t pay capital gain taxes.
However, knowing you and ABC News, I’m not holding my breath that you’ll actuall ask the questions. Just keep it about their dog, Bo and other trivial issues.

Please don’t say my name or I could lose my job. I would ask the president if, just this once, he could give us amnesty on our back taxes. I’m being garnished $1000.00 per month by the IRS and state and there is nothing left to pay bills or eat on. I’m doing everything in my power to keep from losing my home. A one time amnesty on taxes would help millions have money to spend to kick start the economy. The penalties and interest are hideous. If he could just remove those I might could survive. Thank you George for all your hard work.

Ask the press why he is ignoring allies in Europe.

Dear Mr. President: PLEASE MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR COMPANYS TO FORCE A 55+ YEAR OLD TO RETIRE BEFORE THEIR TIME. NO ONE WILL HIRE A PERSON AT THAT AGE. THIS HAPPENED TO MY HUSBAND AT AGE 60. IT SHOULD BE OUTLAWED. PLUS WE LOST A $72K JOB AND REDUCED TO $20K. UNREASONABLE!!!! JUST BECAUSE WE WERE HIGHLY PAID DOES NOT MAKE IT A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO GET RID OF A GOOD EMPLOYEE FOR ONE AT 1/2 PRICE. THAT IS WHAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT JUDGE TOLD MY HUSBAND’S PAST EMPLOYER.

I believe the greatest thing holding back our economy is uncertainty, I’d ask this President what his administration would do to help provide industry some sense of stability? Waiving employer-side SS contributions for a handful of months (HIRE act of 2010) doesn’t address the fundamental concerns businesses face today – an extension of current tax cuts would go a long way towards providing a sense of stability to many.

Ask him why he only has one on one interviews, instead of a press conference with ALL reporters. It would be interesting to see if he can really answer questions that he doesn’t know in advance. We all know if Obama says, “Cut” to ABC, they will stop the camera and let him “re-answer” the question.

Hi George,
This is Eralp from Turkey.I would like to ask Mr.President about foreign policy.He started very well to his relations with Turkey(1st abroad visit,re-declaring strategic partnership etc.)and praised Turkey’s unique model of consisting a muslim society and ruling by democracy regarding many other values of it.However, when it comes to geopolitics, Turkey is rising power in the region for sure and my question is Does he see any conflict of interests or any diversions on understanding and making policies in the region?Here,I can present recent UN Sanctions on Iran or Turkey’s lately antagonism with Israel.Thank you George!All the best from Turkey.

Please ask the President why he
hasn’t engaged the younger ones in
politics as he did before he got
elected. Doesn’t he think that he
could have done much with their
big support even in this coming
mid-term election?

I wonder if the President would support at least in spirit, if not in word the following three potential amendments to the constitution.
1) Rights are exclusive to the individual person and in no way shall rights be construed as being extendable in any sense to any institution, assembly, or association. Rights are not transferable, powers of representation maybe granted only through the auspices of the Government or in the case of criminal or civil procedings, and may be withdrawn or revoked at any time as seen fit by the person(s) being represented.
2) There shall be no tax, fine, levie, or other such revenue device that would or could in anyway endanger the life, liberty, pontential for prosperity, or property of any citizen.
3) That citizens be granted the Right to vote NO for any set of Candidates for any term of any office; and if the majority votes NO against a set of Candidates, these Candidates must be excluded from further Candidacy for the term and office for which they were considered, and a new election with a new set of Candidates held expeditiously.

I’d like to ask…Mr. President, how do you put up with these fools everyday?

Ask about Unemployment…Why is every canidate saying they are for more jobs.But they don’t want to extend unemployment to those out of work for more than 99 weeks? Ask him when he had 2 unemployeed people on the grass in front of the white house asking congress to help ALL those on unemployment why where they NOT ALL helped?

Cyberbullying is out of control in this country. Children are committing suicide over this sort of thing, but little is being done about companies such as Facebook, My Space, and the worst cyberbullying company I have ever seen called Topix. Attacking another person is a violation of human rights and not what was meant by freedom of speech. What does the President intend to do about that?

Mr. President;
A large segment of our population still suffers government endorsed discrimination in employment. When you were campaigning you promised to work for the equity and justice to be brought by the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). How is it that you have championed the rights of non-voting illegal aliens in this Country, while ignoring the rights of those tax paying voters of the alternative lifestyle sexual orientation, gender and gender presentation communities? What happened to your pledge to stand for our equality?

When are you going to go through the budget line by line to cut programs & reduce spending as promised?

Why don’t you and your advisors take a crash course in “what it means to be an american”? Why did you not place your hand over your heart when the National Anthem was being played and why did you bow to the Saudis? Why are you against corporations and for the unions?
When you were in elementary school, did you not learn “The Pledge of Allegiance” & why not? Why have you not joined a Christian church if you are a Christian?

Question for the President:
As a college student the cost of my tuition keeps rising and I’m afraid that it’s going to take me longer to pay it back based on the way things are going. I had been out of work for 2 years before going back to school and honestly I went back to school so I could get a “work study” job. I’ll graduate in 2012 with close to 95k in loans. What plans if any do you have in place to help make sure that the cost of tuition is level with income? Also once the Space Program is scrapped who are we “contracting” that out to or are we forfeiting technology and innovation altogether?

Our country is suffering, due to jobs that are no longer here. Companies are packing up and moving to China, Mexico and elsewhere. We need to make sure that companies who profit by taking jobs out of the USA, pay to bring them back. HOW CAN WE DO THIS? Also, the American people believe that (only citizens) should receive benefits of any kind…If we could accomplish this feet it would go a long way in solving our money problems here. How can we go about making this change?

Does he plan to run for a second term? It must be daunting to inherit so many issues that your own ideas for change take the back burner.

Please ask the President when he will push for the extention of unemployment benefits. We know jobs will take time & we need help to make it until then.
Also can you ask him about jobs for seniors. We can’t get Medicare until we’re 65 & if nobody is hiring anyone over 50 that puts us in a position of having to rely on the welfare rolls. Something we don’t want to do. We want to work.

This is a comment not a question.
George St.really, there are somany questions, but only I am going to ask the GOP Party,what they can do with this bad economey? which Goerge Bush left behined him. In my opinnion all our economey problems from Goerge bush administration and his war in Iraq. Please mantion these subj.M S M

Ask TOTUS (Teleprompter of the US) when is he going to stop campaigning against Republicans and take responsibility for the state of the country. HE is NOW in charge. Take the damn keys and drive out of the ditch!

MR. PRESIDENT, WHEN WILL YOU PASS THE BILL FOR RETIREES AGE 65 AND OVER, EARNING LESS THAN $50,000 PER YEAR STOP PAYING FEDERAL INCOME TAX? THIS WAS ONE OF YOUR PROMISES. I WOULD HAVE MONEY TO BUY HEALTHIER FOODS,IF SO MUCH MONEY WASN’T TAKEN OUT FOR FEDERAL TAXES. WE SENIORS ARE HAVING A HARD TIME. AS A WHOLE MR. PRESDENT YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB CONSIDERING WHAT YOU WALKED INTO. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS. GOD BLESS.

George: Please ask the President if he intends to address the issue of the “99ers”. The policy makers need to understand that people who are out of work,are actively seeking and can’t find work. Many states require that you actively seek in order to collect. This is not WELFARE, many Americans have paid into the system.
Prior to my being out of work I actively worked on the same job for 27 years and never once collected unemployment. The President needs to address this issue. Families need to be clothed, fed and housed. If unemployment can be extended for another 6 mos under the jobs program is in full force, it will be greatly appreciated. I realize that Mr. President has done a lot during his 20 mos in office.
Please pose this question relative to the “99ers”. Thank you very much.

George, you dont have to ask him tough questions but if you did ….. I’d like to know why he waffles soo much in his responses— we all know the Muslims have the RIGHT to build the Mosque, but what about the wisdom??_
George, I dare you to ask him where he stands on that issue…c’mon, I dare you..we all know where Mayor Bloomberg stands–love it or hate it–he has the to say what he feels but ask Obama to just say what he feels..he won’t…we could all watch him squirm if you did

Mr Obama, If the republicans as well as the democrats want jobs then why isn’t the question raised . stop the excessive importing of even the simple things like pencils made in china, or socks in pakastan and start making the products here. thats how to put america to work. if the republicans want the tax breaks extended then it should be tied to restricting companys of making or importing products from overseas you could make multi thousands of jobs by looking around each day of the things we use that was once made here. Thank you

What about the average American who truely wants back/needs to be in the work force but, has very little money, under $10,000 to live on?? How can we put money back in the system when we don’t have any. The President has let all average Americans down on his empty promises.

Dear Mr President, One of the issues that I beleive that has been overlooked with the unemployment situation is that many of todays employers, previous to 9/11 had made changes to how they run their businesses. You have lean management,kiazian, just in time programs to reduce or minimize the labor used in the workplace,and the employer has found they can get more work done by 1 (one) employee instead of 5 (five) that had been used in the past. This has cut the workforce on the average by at least 65%. These employers are NEVER going to go back and hire more people because it’s not cost effective and will only decrease their bottom line.This also have driven the wages to an all time low over the last 10 years and the employer has the pick of the crop to choose from. Who can compete with someone with a Phd that is stepping down in a job that normally held by someone who holds a Assiciates Degree. You would have to create a whole lot of jobs to absorb the amount of people the have lost their jobs just to downsizing

Here is a question, when ford had trouble the managment took pay cuts. Why isnt the president and all managment willing to take a pay cut. I dont hear them saying we will help the country by doing this. People are loosing jobs and dont have money to afford the new health care but they continue to benefit. When is the government going to start to give and take cuts?

What I would hope people would realize is we the people of the united states are some what at fault in the ecomomy bening what it is. first if we would stop giving tax breaks and incentives without somthing in return we wouldn’t be in this mess. I say this because I grew up in Flint Michigan the hardest hit city in the country and we lost ALL
of our G.M. jobs and why ? they went over seas and we gave the companys millions of dollars to stay in tax breaks from our mayors and where did it get us no where. if we are to create jobs then we must buy and build here like we did in the 50′s and 60′s. we cant also expect $25.00 hr either we are a world economy. its better to have 1000 jobs at $8.50 hr or none. so when the republicans want the tax on wealthy extended, make them give jobs here first and the tax incentives as per each job created, an eye for an eye so to speak

Dear Mr President I have been looking for a job for 2 years. There is a lot of age discrimation going on. They ask you if you are a veteran if yes Are you a Koren Vet, Viet Nam Era vet, Viet Nam Vet,Afganistan Vet, Iraq Vet. I am a Viet Nam Era vet and proud of it. But when I check that they know how old I am. The newst thing is how many years of work experience do you have. they have numbers any where from 1 to 20+ years. This needs to stop. I can do the work just like anyone else I am a CSR work in a call center and answer phones all day. My unemployment is about to run out, my husband is on disablity. On SSI I would get a little over $600 a month. I am scared and worried what to do.

We say Americans need jobs yet when I went to a National Park and went to buy gifts everything was made in China. Why not made in America.
Also At a recent Yankee Game I went to buy a hat and shirt, my husband said no, they wer made in China.
They preach we support America but sell goods made in other countries.
How can we bring the manufacturing of these goods back to America? It will make many new jobs.

George – please ask the President why he thinks that 2 earner families earning a total of $250,000 are wealthy. If we get divorced (evidently a goal of the government) we would each be able to earn $200,000 without being called wealthy. My math says that is $400,000. In California and in many parts of the country, the cost of living is very high. We already have a tax hike coming because of the new medicare tax on unearned income. It seems that we are entitled to no tax breaks and no income related tax credits. We are clearly middle class and have to think twice about going out to dinner, and yet we are expected to shoulder the tax burden. We pay heavy state income taxes and property taxes as well as federal income tax and payroll taxes. We pay for our own health insurance and have done so since we were 21 years old. In all but one year, the insurance cost has outweighed the reimbursements we received from health insurance companies. It hurts to think that nearly 45 percent of households in this country are not paying any federal income tax. If they don’t pay anything, they have no buy in to the programs being offered and therefore think runaway government spending is just fine. I know your position is that this is all fair and if anything, we should pay even more of our income into the government pot. I respectfully disagree and say that we are already bleeding. We have lost retirement savings and our house price has fallen. We have not walked away from our mortgage and we have behaved in a responsible manner. We did not benefit from the boom and we are suffering in the recession. We did not borrow tons of money and then stick the bank with the bad debt. We are middle class and I am tired of hearing that we are wealthy and in a class with Warren Buffet. Please take a step back and reevaluate your position about what is wealthy and what is middle class. Also, please rethink your position that families cannot earn 2 times the amount of singles before being hit with a hike. We don’t need any more single parent households and believe me, tax matters.

Mr. President, everything you have thrown at the housing market has failed. Do you have a new plan and do your advisers have any experience in this field.
The banks are not lending any money, how do you propose to turn this housing market around ?

Please tell President Obama to stop asking for permission to solve the problems in America, but get on his old work clothes and pitch in. If you want it done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. Create Jobs, Save American Homes, Don’t Push Seniors into Poverty. Keep the promises you made and make it right. So get up tomorrow and breathe deep, its going to be a long road. Let you and all Americans share the pain of this broken economy and not offload onto the poor and defenseless just because its easy to do and make excuses or ignore them altogether. President Obama, tonight when you goto bed dream that your parents are living on the street, and what are you going to do about it? Send a stranger to find them and tell them your working on a plan, that things will get better soon, or get off you rump and go pick them up and feed them, give them some of your piles of money so they can help themselves for awhile, and assure them your just a phone call away in an emergency, because you believe in them. Are we Americans any less important? Stop with all the talk! Get to work! Listen to Debbie Stabenow. Help Americans with Tier 5.

1. No tax incentives except for jobs created and filled by 12/31/10.
2. Taxes – change – gross compensation, bonuses, etc. over $1.5 million are taxed at 80%, no deductins, exemptions or setoff except 80% for new jobs.
3. From whom much is given, much is required. Reduce Congress’s budget 25%.

Immigration – All our focus is on Arizona and the other border states. What about Florida? Please explain to me why the United States has a wet foot / dry foot law with Cuban immigrants plus the U.S. give each Cuban immigrant about $8 – $10 K for making it to the U.S. Most Americans are unaware of this policy. This is ridiculous. This law needs to be revised. And what happens to the immigrants when they settle in the United States, are the citizens of the U.S. Do they pay taxes? Do they work and contribute to society? Why are Haitian immigrant, Mexican, and others turned away from this county and Cubans are treated differently. All immigrants should be treated the same under one policy.

In May of this year President Felipe Calderon of Mexico spoke before Congress and met with Obama…applause,applause. On the same day Wolfe Blitzer interviewed Mr. Calderon and asked the President if his police officers racially profile and pull over individuals suspected of not being Mexican citizens. His answer was, “Yes, of course.” If the indivual(s) pulled over cannot prove their citizenship they are either immediately forced to leave the country or are jailed. President Calderon also stated that illegals CANNOT be employed in Mexico. My questions to Obama is: (1) Why, oh why, did you NOT stand up to President Calderon and put the safety of Americans first? (We all know the answer…IT’S VOTES!) (2) Why did you NOT fully read the Bill before filing a lawsuit against Arizona for something that is clearly not in the Bill (racial profiling) and THEN HAND THE GOVERNMENT OF ARIZONA OVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY! ARE YOU KIDDING? WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU PRESIDENT OF? Step outside of the White House and take at look at thE beautiful flag flying overhead! It’s the AMERICAN flag, Mr. Obama! That Bill wasn’t racist. We all know good and bad people come across the border, but Arizona has the highest crime (per capita) in the world outside of Columbia. SHAME ON YOU, OBAMA, FOR NOT SUPPORTING YOUR GOVERNOR WHOSE STATE IS IN DIRE NEED OF ASSISTANCE!

I find it almost funny that it is George once again being given the chance to interview B.O. We all know that the questions will be chosen very carefully and he will be scripted to the proper answers. I find The Left News media as appalling as i find this presidency.Along with B.O. you are so far removed and detached from this country and all the issues that go along with that. This will be another gooey star-struck George interviewing with scripted answers…i say he has gone down-hill since your last interview…why try and fix it….its shattered to pieces!

What is the US doing to keep our spot as the No. 1 Economy in the World?

We need to ask Obama why isn’t the precher of that Quran burning church being arrested for inciting terrosiam? He could get our soldiers hurt over there! Thank you!

When the Kennedy’s were associate with the Mafia, everyone accepted it, he was a good president, and Americans ride President Obama more than any other President I have seen. It almost appears that Americans are saying, we will let the blacks in office but if he can’t do anything the first term, we tried and he did not cut the mustard. Obama is no different than other presidents that tried. If he did not get so much pressure and ridiculed maybe he could help us. I feel he is doing his best, we just will not allow him to do his job. The system we have is not working and no one will allow him to change it. We rather work with a broken system than to accept change, people that are rich want to keep getting rich and leave the poor, poor. Ask Obama, now that the people believed in you to place you in office, and ridicule you after they placed you in office, what do you think of them? What do you think when you are trying to do a different system, because the one we have has been since the depression, and the people who placed you in office are the main ones keeping you from making change? We want change, but do not want to pay the cost of it. We rather have instant gratification without changing things. Yet, we can’t get it without change. Obama is a brave man, because they want him to fail, so they can say, “Well, we tried a black man and they did nothing” A hundred years later and we have not changed as a society…….how sick are we????

I think you should ask him when he is going to propose to Congress and the Senate that he be allowed to drop the title of President, and replace it with the more accurate title of Premier. And when is he going to change his registered political party afiliation from Democrat, to Communist/Socialist? And lastly, would he bel willing to propose to Congress and the Senate that the Democratic Party be re-named “The New American Communist Party”. It is MUCH more accurate of a description of the current leftist movement than is the term Democrat. Remember, it was the Democratic Party that opposed the Republican President, the Honorable President Lincoln over the War of Northern Aggression. Democrat just isn’t an accurate description of the current party’s belief system. Honesty concerning affiliations and values would be a refreshing and welcome change of pace.

If there is more marijauna being produced in the United States then the DEA is taking out, why does the United States continue to waste billions of dollars per year keeping weed illegal and ruining innocent peoples lives? Also along with that how come a person who has raped or murdered can still get a loan from the bank, but someone convicted of marijuana possession cannot? Isnt that counter productive to society.