President Barack Obama has pledged to be one of the most open Presidents in American history. To show that he is both tech savvy and willing to hear the comments from all American citizens, he’s transformed WhiteHouse.gov into a blog-style website. The new style of the site comes complete with a contact form where you can send a message to the White House with the hope that President Obama will actually read it.
The link for that portion of the White House’s website may be found by clicking here. I hope that Americans really take this opportunity to send messages to the White House to talk about the things that are affecting them everyday. Personally, I’ve sent two messages to the White House so far – both of them dealing with a tax issue related to student loans.
For those of you who have student loans, you’ll know that you can deduct the interest paid on your loans on your taxes. The problem is that you can only deduct up to $2,500 per tax year. Well hey, if you have massive student loan debt, you may be paying upwards of $5,000 or $6,000 per year in interest alone!
If you’re out there in the world and making good money, but are saddled with gigantic student loan debt, you know that being able to deduct the entire amount of interest paid on student loans would be a great way to put more dollars back in the pockets of the working class…the very people who would not have been able to attend college if it were not for those loans. So this is what I’ve been sending Obama – that you can go ahead and fix the economy, but if people with massive student loan debt are still spending an exorbitant portion of their income on this interest, then fixing the economy won’t matter.
One way to mitigate this problem is allowing Borrowers to deduct the entire amount of their student loan interest. If you agree, here is a short message that you, too, can send to the White House on the contact page listed above:
Tax policies should be revised so that 100% of annual interest paid on student loans can be deducted on personal taxes. Many Borrowers with high student loan debts pay a high portion of their annual, post-tax income as interest on student loans. Currently, only $2,500 may be deducted annually. Borrowers with larger student loan debts routinely pay upwards of $5,000 each year in interest. Allowing the total amount of interest paid to be deducted will better position these citizens in the economy.
You’ll see that you can only submit 500 characters worth of a message to the White House (which makes sense). The italicized blurb above is 500 characters on the dot. So if this is something that you can agree with, please copy and paste the text above into the contact form on the White House website!
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Hello Mr great president Obama,
I still insist on my opinion that you ill be the leader of the century for your humanitarian behaviour,viewpoints,aids,investigations and everything really in favour of all people around the world.Believe me that s the truth,I swear I dont praise you, and you deserve it as you are the most flexible and intelligent American leader I have ever seen in my life.Mrpresident Obama, I was the first to expect your winning of the nobel prize and I think this should be done for the second time for your great efforts worldwide.Mr president Obama, I am Egyptian and I beg you to prevent those people who want to go to Sharm El Sheikh in our country to follow our former president Mubarak,to insult him more and more than before,to threaten him and his family there.this because all the reasons for demonstrations have been achieved and they got what they wanted to do and Mubarak himself listened to your good and weell-timed speech when you told him to leave then and he did so in silence not to hurt or kill his people like others. so I think it is not accepable or humanitarian to let those greedy and heartless ones to do so as Mubarak is very ill and faces so many fears, insults, accusations the most of such are false and unreal. Mr preasident it is a shame for all the Egyptians to imprison our leader, our father, who spent most of his life for us and his coountry. We need your highness to give a clear speech to the Egyptians to make them absorb the truth that Mubarak is now helpless ,ill and that he cant defend himself as he became an ordinary citizen,and we should let the court says its wordnothing more.Mr president Obama God bless you and I wish you the best of luck with your great democrats.
Pls, take care as the world needs you and your men forever,
Mamdouh Elalfy.
Mr. President,
I have a sister, who lives in Montgomery, Al. She is a avid supporter of yours. She will turn 63 on April 16, and she would be overjoyed to receive a call from you. Your picture is every where in her home and she encourages others to support you.
She is caregiver of her mother, Ella King, who is 90 years old and she doesn’t get out a lot. Her name is Mary Friendly and her address is 4140 Gateway Drive, Montgomery AL, 36108. Her telephone number is 1-334-284-3270.
I know this is an unusual request but if you can do this for her, she will be thankful. Rosie Campbell. I’m also a supporter.
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A Tribute to President Barack Obama
Please find a video paying tribute to our President. What it lacks in technological skills, it excels in heartfelt appreciation and gratitude for the job this President is doing.
Mamie Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GfKwpRnK84
Dear Mr president Barack Obama,
wanna tell you something I think so important for keeping your great popularity and fans so close to beat your rival and I do think so will happen , these are as follows:1-Besides asking the rich to find work opportunities for young people who are unemployed instead of raising tax or imposing an additional one,you must do your best to help them find jobs in other close and neighboring countries with which you have strong ties in exchange of different services and the like.2-On the other hand,paying for the graduates who are unemployed and who have no fixed or no income at all as a monthly aid to be able to face the cost of living through classifying them into categories according to their ages,qualifications,years of graduation,family positions,their urgent needs and so on.All these matters should be your next speeches and to be put into consideration and deeds even if your great members of your Democratic party take most of it on their own as they did before. President Obama I wish you the best of luck. I will send you so many other suggestions later as I am weary now.
hello mr brack obama i want to tell you please help me i want to visit united state and i want to work so please help you can do some thing for me my name is rohullah iam 15 years old and living in quetta pakistan my nationality is hazara i hope that you will do for me any thing i should came there to work so please help me this is my email address rohullahkhanali@yahoo.com please please
President Obama
Sir I think that you should go before the american pulbic and tell them how the Replublicans are trying to run America down
the drain by not even accepting a taxable charge against “Millioners and Billioners” so they can tax the middle class, which I am a member of. You certainly have more knowledge in the subject than I do, but I wish you would call these politicans by name and tell the american public that they only want to defeat you no matter what and too bad about the rest of America.
Thank You,
Michael Brown
XXX-387-XXXX
email – [REMOVED BY EDITOR]@frontier.com
please tell barak obama too push 24 hours in every city that should be like Dallas/Huston tx
if every major city in the U.S. was up & running 24 hours this would be a huge impact on the economy
the nest billion dollar industry is solar & wind power facctories An, make sure that every city is not putting red tape on the people open up the flood gates make it affordable for every one Do not let them commercailize it ! FACTORIES
Mr obama ur a man of integrity supposed to be a man of his word?I think not where’s the jobs at?I’m a truck driver and the way we are treated is crappy we make the u.s.a. Possible if it weren’t for us u would b homeless,hungry,naked,yet the prices of fuel for us is outragous can u remember when deisel was cheaper than gas? Yet u stick it to us with all these new rules whick is bullshit!u suck and I hope u get what’s coming to u!ever heard of carma!I won’t vote for u that’s for sure we truck drivers can’t stand u.the wealthy stay that way and us blue collar workers who work 70 hours a week to support our familys can’t get shit!and all u do is vacation and jet set around the globe!fuck you!I haven’t had a vacation ever in my life!I have a sick grandmother who’s dying with cancer and we couldn’t give her a proper buriel if we wanted to!It took me a long while to get a job and it don’t pay shit I was getting a check for 240 a week on unemployment in arizona that’s top pay and I help take care of my father and grandmother couldn’t even get food stamps they said I make to much cash at 240 a week!I’ve been a trucker for 9 yrs!averaged at least 500 a week!my dad was a very decorated war hero in veitnam who served his country as a door gunner u give him a 600$ measley dollar paycheck!we have helped the usa and we are shit on! Fuck all u goverment assholes!
dear Barack Obama I know you dont know me but i know you this Clyde i just want to tell you i have a big problem im am mad of myself just bitter of different things please help mp?
I have a ideal why not give the little people some of that money that is being wasted on helping the rich man stay richer.
Give me a grant to buy some land and start a earn your keep farm.
Everyone can do something even if its to talk to others or teach young people to work.
If I had the money I could pay people to build a town that they would live in.
Every one would be assigned a job.
The town would work together and have a monthly meeting.
I WOULD set up a power sours to have electric such as windmills water turbines or solar panels.
People could grow their own food plus sell or trade the extras to people visiting town.
People inside of town could trade goods.
Have a currency for people who lived inside of towns.
When people grow old the town would take care of them.
Some could grow livestock others corn and such.
The town would pay taxes as a whole.
They would be no gasoline engines aloud in this town only electric or fuel made from corn.
This would be a self sufficient town that could stand on its own if it needed to.
Towns like this would have less stress on our government system.
The government just needs give a little man a chance to change the world.
i wanna say thankyou to the american people for helping haiti god bless the u nited states of american people thanx for helping my contry
the american government suck we cant do nothing were way to much in debt. and are president is putting us more in debt.
I just wanted to say u said Yes we can not Yes i can it is ashame that people do not understand the message I took it as if everyone give 2% or more of there time we together can bring this plasce we call USA back to where it should be.I also think that you are given the time needed to get things done people think u can just walk into office and say what will change today they do not look at how many people u set with each and every day trying to come up with a better way of doing things and then dealing with what i call the other big house alway having to fight with you instead of coming together for USA and i could not deal with the job u have so many people having a voice and not alway a good voice i feel if u don’t really understand then why talk about it i do not understand all of it or what your job could be like i just know if u are not helping then shut up, stop talking so much when u r not helping out in your town on your street at your job or what it may be just shut up and let the man do his job. i just so sick of people talking when they have not got off there butts and done a thing to help make a different yet are so quick to talk about something and complain keep up the good work i do understand yes we can
was sup all my american china economy is growing very fast