To: President Donald Trump
Petition to President Obama
As loyal supporters of the Democratic Party's campaign for your reelection and the election of U.S. Senators and Representatives committed to restoring the economic welfare of all this country's citizens and not merely maintaining the privilege of the 1%, we call on you, Mr. President, to pledge to appoint as Treasury Secretary in your second administration Paul Krugman or another well-qualified economic expert known to be independent of the financial sector. Unless your "base" can feel certain that you intend, if elected, to go forward actively to close the huge gaps in the American array of opportunities for the rich versus all the rest, you will find our enthusiasm for contributing and electioneering tepid at best.
Why is this important?
Let us ask President Obama to assure us of his firm commitment to arrest the decline of integrity and productivity in the U.S. financial sector by promising to appoint Paul Krugman as Secretary of the Treasury in his next Administration. To convince Americans he intends to end the drain of U.S. taxpayers' money and citizens' economic welfare through the unregulated avarice and self-dealing of the U.S.banking and investment sector the President must drive the foxes out of the chicken coop. Unless we can be assured that the U.S. economic system will no longer be rigged to support this country's 1% but instead foster the well-being of the 99%, President Obama will go forward with tepid enthusiasm from his "base."