Reply #9: Strengthen our economy.

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Reduce our dependence on foreign oil. And significantly reduce our negative balance of trade with China
and other countries. We are literally hemorrhaging our wealth to the foreign oil producers and to
the Asian countries that manufacture our products.

Our economy has been desperately weakened by the mortgage crisis on top of the crises I have mentioned above.
It has further unraveled what was already a vulnerable economy. Foreign financial interests are fast losing faith
in the vaunted US economy and have more confidence in the economies of Europe and Asia. That is reflected
in the exchanges rates.