Mr. President, Please Listen And In The Words Which Encouraged Harry Truman, "Give 'Em Hell"

Mr. President, the country we all love is hurting enormously, with huge unemployment. Isn't it possible to create work programs like the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and spend monies on infrastructure for bullet trains, repairing roads and bridges that are falling down and other truly needed capital programs by creating what we don't have now -- a separate capital budget (which states and cities have) that would permit borrowing and pay the cost of a capital item over its expected life, instead of maintaining the single unified budget which the U.S. currently has? I am not an economist, but shouldn't that be considered? The need for jobs with our unemployment rate in excess of 9 percent is universally accepted.

People everywhere are asking why don't you call the Congress back from their unearned vacations to address the huge problems now facing the nation. You can still win back the support of the public by publicly setting forth in detail your plan to address these enormous problems. It should be a plan fashioned not on consensus, but your plan, and if your political adversaries oppose it, so be it. Then you must go over their heads to the vast public, appealing to its common sense, asking them to support you.