Obama and I

If I had a chance to talk to Obama, I would ask him a couple of questions, like an interview.
My Questions would be the following:

What's different about the this stimulus and the Bush administration's stimulus plan?
What kind of regulations are in this stimulus plan?
What do companies have to do to get a bailout?
After getting the answers to the questions, I would like to ask Obama what kind of businesses he would like to bail out?
What are the companies that are priority?
After the stimulus what does he think will happen to the economy, how much will the stimulus plan help the economy?
After all of the questions, I would like to talk to him about the economy will worsen and what can the average person do?
What's going to happen to the average American? how are they going to get help?
How is the real estate business going to better and what kind of limitations are going to be put as to where the money goes, so that another John Thain doesn't happen?
What kind of regulations will businesses have so that bonuses, vacations, and refurbishing will no longer happen?

Overall I think that the questions would go really well and I'd get a lot of answers to my questions. I think that I would then talk to him about the future of the countries economy and how he thinks that's going to improve or worsen. I would like to talk to him about the difficulty of trying to pass the stimulus plan and why he thinks it took so long for it to pass. I would ask him why he believes a lot of senators were a bit skeptical about passing the bill. I would talk to President Obama about any future stimulus plans, any past stimulus and anything about the current stimulus plan.

My hour would probably be over way before all my questions and topics could get covered, but it would be a lot of fun being able to talk to President Obama about all of this and I think that it would be really informational.

After my questions, I would talk to Obama how he has to make sure that he makes good decisions on what's coming, like Frank Rich said, "it’s not clear that he fully understands the huge forces that hit his young administration last week." He needs to make sure that he understands the full force of the financial crisis that is coming. He needs to make sure that he stops cutting money where it's needed. He needs to make sure that he puts the money where he wants to put it and where it's needed. They took away money from the education and from health care. Things that were in the original stimulus plan are now going to be taken out because some people want the money to be taken out, so that the stimulus plan will decrease and will no longer be $800 billion. When George W. Bush asked for a stimulus plan, he asked for $145 billion from tax payers for, “a shot in the arm to keep a fundamentally strong economy healthy”. According to the New York Times, "The president said the package “must be big enough to make a difference” in an economy as large as that of the United States, meaning it should be worth about 1 percent of the gross domestic product, putting it at $140 billion to $150 billion," George Bush took 1% of the gross domestic product thinking that the economy would become a better one, seeing as how that didn't work, I want to know how Obama's going to make that change and make it work this time without wasting the tax-payers money. Obama needs to make the appropriate cuts and make sure that he spends the money wisely because the economy depends on him.
Sources:
For the CNN article, CLICK HERE!
For the NYTimes article, CLICK HERE!

My Mentor Interview Is:
On Tuesday in the conference room and it will be recorded on a camera.


Sources:
HULSE, CARL. "Senators Reach Deal on Stimulus Plan as Jobs Vanish - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/us/politics/07stimulus.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Stimulus%20plan%202009&st=cse (accessed February 13, 2009).

"Debate on stimulus package to resume Monday - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus/index.html?iref=newssearch (accessed February 13, 2009).

RICH, FRANK. "Op-Ed Columnist - Slumdogs Unite! - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/opinion/08rich.html (accessed February 13, 2009).

KRUGMAN, PAUL. "Op-Ed Columnist - The Destructive Center - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1 (accessed February 13, 2009).

Specter, Arlen. "Arlen Specter - Why I Support the Economic Stimulus - washingtonpost.com." washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020801710.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 (accessed February 13, 2009).