Dear Mr Obama,

I know you are going to “save your country; you are going to save the world”. What about the people who lost their full time jobs during the financial crisis? Will you also save them?

Only in last week, almost 100,000 jobs were eliminated including 20,000 layoffs at NEC, 19,500 at Pfizer, 15,000 at Metro, 10,000 at Boeing, and 8,000 at Sprint Nextel.  Thousands more from Ericsson, Kodak, Starbucks, Philips, Microsoft, Home Depot, Caterpillar, and others added to the total.

Did you know that these people are now trying to earn their living from blogging and Internet marketing? Nowadays  around 17,000 new WordPress blogs are launched every single day. The competition is getting fierce for the full time probloggers like me. Will you save us too?

Please do not take it as disrespect to you, but here is my suggested bail out plan for the probloggers and for the people working at home:

• Reduce the tax taken from the Internet income to 5 %. Don’t worry, this will increase the number of Internet entrepreneurs, and you will get more tax sooner or later.
• Send 1000$ to each problogger and Internet marketer via PayPal, and ask them to spend the money for their Internet spendings like hosting, SEO, domain purchase, web design, Internet services etc. Believe me this will at least save the Internet nation!
• Microsoft would stop developing new browsers and operating systems. It is completely useless.
• We don’t want to pay high prices for the licenced software.  Let us buy one licence and share it within the blogosphere during the financial crisis.

I am not sure whether you can save your country or the world. But if you do above, you will at least save us, the probloggers.

In Obama we trust!

Mert Erkal

A problogger who is trying to save his own life