CNN - Cafferty File question: What single issue was most important to you?
As a Canadian I don't have to care, but I do. Just as I care for my next door neighbours, I care for America too.
I want to see that America I once loved during the 90's. President Bill Clinton was commander and chief and riding high with an economical surplus. Times were certainly good, up until George W. Bush took control in 2001.
For the past 8 years, President Bush has managed to plunder a country down from the greatest economical surplus to the greatest economical deficit in history. As a result, we are now in what we call an "economic crisis," or we can blatantly call it a recession bordering another Great Depression.
So Jack Cafferty, you ask what the single most important issue is for the 2008 US Presidential Election. Well I'm no bandwagon jumper but I will go with the majority this time in saying that the economy is the number one issue that America has to aid right now.
One of the big contributors to this problem is the fact that the US government is predominately being fed US dollars by the middle-class citizens. Some of these citizens are people that have troubles maintaining their own way of life financially, much less paying taxes. The upper-class and big corporations are sitting comfortably with their money free as can be, and that's the big reason in why America is plundering to a Great Depression.
During President Clinton's term, he mandated a leveled taxation plan that saw classes of all kinds in America contributing their fair share with regard to their level of income. What Barack Obama plans to do now is once again tax the big corporations and upper-class to the level they were paying in the 90's. The middle-class, those with incomes less than a quarter of a million dollars, will see their taxes reduced and that accounts for 95% of Americans.
As I said earlier, I care for my neighbours and when I see my neighbour unhappy, I feel unhappy because it's an atmosphere around me that begs for help. Big corporations and the upper-class of America should share those same feelings. This new taxation plan set force by Barack Obama will feed those feelings and put the economy back on track to another eventual surplus
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Hi Marcus, Keep writing because I love your picture. Is that water behind you?