People coming out of being unemployed, or going from one parent working to two parents working (whether it is part time or full time) have have it difficult. 1)Medicaid shoud have a better “step system.” 2) Child care assistance should have a step system. 3) Food stamps should reduce, how you chose to do it is difficult to figure. By the number of people you have per case? The best answer I agree with is so much percentage per person. Therefore people having too many kids have to work harder. I don’t mean to harm people having large families, but I once saw a family with 15 children. unless you have a lot of money, how would one plan to truely care properly for them? and have seen many other large numbered families. 4) Find ways to benefit middle class people, so they will want to get out and search harder and try harder if it helps rather than hinders them. The FIRST thing that happens when you go from one parent working to the other being part time is child care assistance is cut. (OR from being unemployed) so for example: I was working, my husband finally got a job, and it was part time. Baby setters (the cheap ones) for three kids on part time cost $200 every two weeks, minimum. He barely cleared $450. or when he became full time, the setter cost was $300 every two weeks, while his income was $315 a week. (DO you see why lots of americans would chose to stay at home? First of all, child care is sometimes more than half ones income.) The SECOND thing that happens is sometimes simutaneously (with the child care assistance), when one parent is part time and one is a full time parent, the food stamps stop. Food stamps is sometimes the only way people eat healthy. it is a good program. The THIRD thing that is cut is medicaid. No one is informed that when you put insurance on your children when you get a decent job, medicaid will be cut. It is crazy, an uninsured family of 5 can make over $6,000 a month and get medicaid, but the same size insured gets cut after $2900. There should be a sliding scale. That is a huge difference. (It makes you wish you did not pay your hard earned money into a health insurance, that for some they may not use.) There are so many things that happen when you become employed or a parent gets a better job that it is hard to sum it all up here, but it is very hard for the people trying to do right. Trying to work and raise a family. The “benefits” are not proportional. It is cut and dry. The transition should be easier to cohearse people to work, to help themselves, the economy, and this country.

Location: Marshall, Mo

Please send trucks full of gas for people affected by Sandy If each city or govenment department would send a truck than people could fill their cars and run their generators now. i watch the new and that seem to be a big problem that can be easy to fix.

Location: lafayette la

The President needs to IMMEDIATELY establish a SPECIAL team of federal employees with the SPECIFIC and identifiable purpose of on-the-ground evaluations to identify and provide relief to small business owners who have suffered impacts from Sandy. The TEAM needs to be a separate and identifiable, high profile unit with a name readily useable name such as Small Business Special Relief Team (SBSRT). This may require the emergency hiring and training of more employees with the specific task of pro-actively finding impacted business owners and personally guide them through red tape and otain rapid financial relief. It should have all the presence and authority of a special police unit and the President needs to inform the public of regular updates of the progress of such unit.

It is important the this unit has its own autonomy for the purpose for which it is established: rapid deployment and assistance and NOT just another office of bureaucrats sitting around filing out endless paperwork.

Location: Grand Lake, Colorado

Dear Mr President Obama,

Many people refuse to leave their residences during impending disasters. As a result they even put their own children and family members in harms way. Its costly to make all these rescues of those who were too stubborn to leave their possessions when curfews and martial law has been or can be declared. It also puts all these brave persons who are rescuing in jeopardy and at risk. Along with this law provisions need to be made to help people leave, especially the elderly and those who have disabilities.

Thank you,

Kathleen Gensemer

Location: Long Beach, CA. USA

I certainly hope that the Obama campaign is paying attention to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. On the Daily Show, they pointed out through video that Romney’s answer to how he is different from Bush were 5 promises, which were exactly the same ones that Bush promised in his campaign for President.

Location: Berkeley, CA

In the President’s request to not allow Romney to undo the “Wall Street” law, he MUST mention how people like Bernie Madoff helped drive the economy into turmoil.

Location: Lexington, SC (United States)

To those who are pessimistic about the direction of the economy, the President might suggest that they look at their 401(k), IRA or other retirement plan and see that, during his Presidency, its value has risen nearly to pre-recession levels. The stock market, after all, doesn’t .benefit just the 1%, but everyone who wants to invest for a secure retirement..

Location: .Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Donald Trump is trying to make the President submit his college and passport papers which everyone is mocking. At the same time, this is a brilliant opportunity for us to bring up Romney not releasing his tax returns.

Do an attack ad that reminds the undecided voters that they can’t trust Romney because he won’t tell them the truth about his taxes. People respond to that.

Location: Texas

A friend recently said Obama has not been to chuch since being in office. There is the problem, because church, has nothing t do with running the government but repulicans want to mix religion with government. I believe Romney said something a long time ago about take our country back to what our founding father intended? She asked if I wasnt worried about hor Islamic he is? I am worred about republics ruling our country through religion instead of business. Maybe I will have to wear the undergarment

just thought i would share what they are thinking, although I know you already know this and the vote driving is about the economy and jobs.

Location: kansas

The Principle of Subsidiarity is the idea that the responsibility for addressing social and economic problems belongs to the closest community or authority that can handle those problems.
The big question is can I do that for myself or do I need a larger authority to assist me.
If you use it maybe we would not have such a large deficit or many other problems that we have today.

Location: Montogomery county MD