Dear David,
2008/11/25 David Plouffe, BarackObama.com <info@barackobama.com>
Today and yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of an economic team tasked with creating jobs, stabilizing the economy, and getting our country back on track.
I’m concerned that Barack’s economic team may be flawed. In particular, I feel that it may be setting out to address the current economic crisis with approaches that worked in the 1990s but are not entirely appropriate now.
I hope you will be able to feed back to Obama that, as this article in the Guardian indicates, association with Robert Rubin’s protégés may be politically risky at a time when Citigroup’s reputation is deteriorating sharply. I hope, also, that Obama will focus on the medium to long term. The short-termist approach of the Bush government, and of Republican policies in general, must go. In particular, the national debt must be addressed, as reducing this will improve the economic outlook regardless of other factors.
Yours sincerely,
Sam Kuper
US Citizen and Obama for America supporter.
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