Food stamps should not be used for junk food. I was a divorced mom with 2 kids working 2 jobs and never even applied for them. I also made my kids peanut butter and jelly almost everyday. They are both successful healthy young men. It pisses me off that people buy junk food from gas stations, bakery decorated theme cakes and soda and Halloween candy with food stamps!
We have the fattest poor people in the world and we pay for it. Not to mention the dental care and health care these junk food eaters need!
I am also a teacher that has watched “free lunches” begin tossed in the garbage and ice cream/snacks bought everyday. We had a kid that had 100 dollars in snack food in his account and free lunch ( food stamps too)

Location: Flagler Beach, Florida

Dear President Obama; (PLEASE CUT THRU THE RED TAPE as you proposed)

I’m resubmitting this suggestion with the hope that someone on your team will read it and hopefully respond giving me the opertunity to show you the WIN-WIN scenareo that you-me-and everyone in our country can achieve.

1) Combine returning and disabled veterans with American citizens recieving unemployment compensation.

2) Assign veterans as supervisors to lead teams of five to ten workers.

3) Deploy/ assign them on four to six month tours to New York, New Jersey and any other disaster area.

4) Excellent opertunity to use multi skilled / multi talented Americans to rebuild America,

5) Enhance and sharpen their skills and job opertunities.

6) All are being paid and not being used / Wasting talent and money.

7) This is a WIN-WIN-WIN proposition for you – me – and our whole country.

I anxiously awaite your response. Thank you.

Location: (Washington, D.C.

Please don’t yeild on the tax issue. I would prefer for my taxes to go up rather than allow the 2% to not take an increase in theirs. Also please hold firm on keeping and increasing Social Security and Medicare. Stephen Tibbitts

Location: (e.g. Washington, D.C. / Geneva, Switzerland)Medford OR

President Obama,

Statistics show an increasing rate of black men now in jail for non payment of child support. This is a catch 22 because once you go to jail, and by the way, get your drivers license taken, it’s now more difficult to get employment with no license and a felony.

There needs to be a program for inner city black men who have children out of wedlock. They need to be taught how to be fathers, because many grew up without fathers. They need to be forced to see their children, which would develop that relationship and assist the children in not continuing the same cycle. Instead of states mandating that men go to jail for nonsupport, place them in a program that forces them to see their children, spend time with them etc.This program should be an arm of the unemployment office, not the penal system. Jail should be the last resort for a person who has gone through all the programs, given all the help to find employment, given classes on fatherhood and responsibility.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

The campaign is over. Time to stop nagging the other side, stay home, and do the job. You need to sit down with the Republicans and offer budget cuts as they have agreed to ways of increasing taxes. It has to be both ways.

Location: White House

PLEASE stay put in your office to do your job! How can you continue to spend travel expenses while the rest of the country must decide if they can afford to take a trip to visit parents! Stop being so devisive in the things you do and say! I never pay attention to your color …. only watch your eyes! I couldn’t believe that you have a web site for blacks…..where’s mine….for old, ugly and white?!
Mr. President, even as a retired accountant and parent of seven, I can see that you must have had someone else just hand your money to you. You really should listen to all suggestions with regard to our nation’s bad spending habits. So much unnecessary expense could have been cleaned up, as we expected in your first term. But shame, shame, you only added to our debt and thought that Air Force One is your special toy. God bless you in the years to come, with a growing wisdom for you to see your own mistakes and with strength to finish this term WITH the people in mind.

Location: (e.g. Washington, D.C.

I’m an Attorney-Adviser working for the SEC. But these thoughts are my own and not that of the Commission or of the staff.

The state lottery is a voluntary tax. People are freely giving up hard earned money. People love the states for it and are happy to pay this type of tax. But the problem is — the lottery does not target the ultra wealthy.

Your administration could go down in history if you could find a voluntary tax for the ultra rich and even universities/corporations. There are simple ideas out there that would work. It could be enough to balance the budget and then some.

Also, you should be careful with the pushing for the wealthy in this country to pay more tax. This 99% versus the 1% is as dangerous a situation as any racial or ethnic tension in history. World War II was funded by the hatred of the wealthy class (happened to be Jewish). It’s easy to turn a clear majority against a minority (especially wealthy people in poor economic times) but it’s not right and dangerous. Be careful that your legacy is progress and creativity — not hatred and jealousy.

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Dear President Obama: Staying true to ur words “Cut through the red tape and bureaucracy” and solve our disaster problems by 1) Utilizing our disabled & unemployed veterans to supervise unemployment compensation recipients as teams of 10 to 15 personnel, on 3 month deployments with one month break between tours – To assist with disaster relief
2) This taps a limitless manpower supply.
3) This yields no additional financial costs.
4) The most capable well trained soldiers will be the lead
supervisors.
5) All will benefit from a rich reserve of civilian power with
endless skills and experience.
6) A total WIN – WIN – WIN scenareo!!!!!
PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR DETAILS !!!!!!

Location: Washington, D.C.

If you really care about America, I think you should have a meeting with Ron Paul to get America back on track, he has some very good ideas and I believe alot of American’s would agree… It is apparent that the Republican and Democractic parties are too worried about keeping their party in power …and most of the time it is at the expense of the American people it is apparent that they are controlled by “big” money not what they can do for the country. (of course that statement doesn’t apply to all of the senate and house of reps…there is a small minority that still cares about this country..

We do not want a one world government..we do not want an RFID chip…we want our country back…we want our liberty …stop making people dependent on the government by giving money and food to people who won’t work…I am not talking about the people that cannot help themselves …they still need help…but make jobs for these people and make them accountable for the free benefits they get..stop sending foreign aid overseas to other countires..work with the UN and force their own countries to take care of their own people we are not the world babysitters……stop bailing out the bankers.. make them pay it back and if they misuse the bailout money they need to be prosecuted not forgiven/pardoned…

Location: oklahoma city, ok

I would like to suggest that will give up a holiday every four years, and give back as a holiday during the national elections for President. For example we could conbine Veteran day with the president election every four years, and that way it would be an honor for servive people who gave their lives for the freedom of this country, and everyone would off work to vote, or it can be some other holiday. We need to do something to improve voting system.

Location: cerritos california