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"I was getting so bummed out by Fox News&amp;#x27; despicable treatment of the Obamas (check out Megan&amp;#x27;s excellent post on this here) and by the unloosed hatred towards Michelle Obama in particular that I needed to turn my head away. I decided to turn it towards an issue that I hope American voters are thinking pretty hard about: the economy, and what the next president might do to make matters either better or worse. The short answer seems to be that neither Obama nor McCain have proposals that will get us out of the deficit mess we&amp;#x27;re in so that we can jump-start the economy, but McCain&amp;#x27;s proposals are much worse&amp;amp;#8212;unless you&amp;#x27;re very wealthy. Hopefully wealthy enough to buy a mansion in the Cayman Islands and scoot out of here, because if this analysis is right, then these days of $4-a-gallon gas and 5.5% unemployment are going to look pretty golden soon. Hope you&amp;#x27;ve set up your 401K, kids! Preferably in international stocks! I&amp;#x27;d love to see the candidates cut out all the bad math (Obama wants tax cuts for the lower-income and middle-class; McCain wants to stick with Bush&amp;#x27;s tax cuts for the wealthy, but how can we do all that if we&amp;#x27;re still at war?) and just be straight with us. Here&amp;#x27;s the conversation I&amp;#x27;m imagining: &amp;amp;quot;My fellow Americans, the fact of the matter is that as a country, we&amp;#x27;ve got lots of things that we need to pay for&amp;amp;#8212;like two wars and the spiraling cost of Medicare. We really need everyone to contribute right now. Once we get our books balanced a little bit, the dollar will stabilize, we&amp;#x27;ll be able to stabilize interest rates and inflation, and maybe we can even start investing in our own programs and infrastructure instead of pleading with China to do it. Once we get all that squared away, we can talk about tax cuts again. Thank you and good night.&amp;amp;quot; Are you worried about the economy? Do either of the candidates have a plan that appeals to you? &amp;amp;#8212;Caille P.S. If you could ask Barack Obama anything, what would it be? Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive will ask the presidential candidate your questions when she sits down with him for a one-on-one. Click here to submit yours. The interview will appear in an upcoming issue of Glamour. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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