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Post by blackregret21 on Jan 13, 2009 21:33:59 GMT -5
January 8th, 2009
Nathan was strolling towards the conference room. He organized a meeting that he would get everything straightened out right after he entered the White House. It has only been two days since Nathan has been in his new house. He entered the room with his wheelchair. Wrapping around the table to the back of the room. "Good morning afternoon all." he said with a smile. Rolling his legs under the table he crossed his arms on top of the table.
Nathan looked at Mr. Ward, the Press Secretary, he nodded towards him. "I like to introduce James Ward, the newest member of the cabinet." he smiled. Then back to everyone else, he began the meeting. "Today I want to talk about the problems I had promised to fix when I was running for presidency. First of is this economic time." he said. "Does anyone have a solution to this?" he asked. He looked of to the Professor/Treasury Department Head Johnathan Grant for an answer.
Director Grant began with a cough. "Thank you, Mr. President." he began. "I have come up with a solution. To start this, we should lower taxes. And then start to find our own source of fuel, or make a new synthetic fuel to cut costs." Nathan listened to the man as he spoke of the possible solution.
"Then I shall bring this up with the Congress. And Dr. Suresh, this should be a job for you to start finding a way to move off of oil." he said. He looked around to see if anyone would speak up, before he ended the meeting.
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Post by mohinder on Jan 14, 2009 11:16:33 GMT -5
Mohinder nodded as the President wheeled himself into the room and gave a smile to the new Press Secretary. And then listened to what the meeting was going to be about. It was probably going to be the Economic situation. The Economy was in a bad stage it was in a recession and a bad recession at that. It was very bad in India and elsewhere in the world.
Perhaps the entire world was gearing towards a depression. Just what the world needed a depression, a war on terror, and the emergence of people with abilities. It was hard to even think about those possibilities and Mohinder was just going to focus on the crisis at hand: The Economy.
He looked at Grant who was speaking about suggestions. He just blinked when Grant placed the spotlight on him. Was he an idiot or something? Mohinder was the Secretary of Health and Human Services and also advisor for Sciences/Technology. He wondered what this was following under. He was about to say something smart ass when he decided that he would say something a bit nicer.
“Of course, I will find an alternative fuel, I have some in mind” He said as he leaned forward in chair and started to write down some suggestions. “For oil we could try Natural Gas, but not many people are backers of that kind of fuel, and we’re talking about converting all cars to use natural gas, and I’m not sure the Big 3 are up for the challenge, because they have ran out of money”
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Post by jamesward on Jan 20, 2009 21:44:34 GMT -5
James looked around the room. He sort of felt out of place here. Everyone was a big, high ranking or well educated person with a lot of experience at what they were doing. Meanwhile, James was just a twenty-odd year old who didn't even finish collage and had quit his old job at a news paper. Yeah, that was something that could qualify him for a job in the White House. Actually now that he thought about it, James was probably the youngest person working here.
Back at the topic at hand, James tried to listen to what they had to say about trying to solve the problem for the economy. Speaking from experience, he knew that home owners were having trouble keeping up with bills. Not to mention the actual home sales.
"What about lowering the prices of homes. People are finding hard to actually get a home and those that do are having a hard time trying to actually keep it."
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Post by tracy on Jan 23, 2009 16:02:26 GMT -5
There was a Cabinet Meeting today and Tracy was late. She couldn't believe she could be late for a meeting which Nathan was holding. However she had got help up on the telephone talking to the Manager of her bank where there had been a mistake with her account. She hadn't meant for the conversation to go on as long as it had. Suddenly noticing the time, she had to cut in on the Manager talking and make her excuses to leave and that she would continue the conversation later in the day or tomorrow to resolve the issue.
Knocking slightly on the door and then slowly opening it, she looked toward Nathan, and rolled her eyes and shrugged her shoulders and mouthed to him "Sorry, couldn't get off telephone" she hoped that he would have understood what she had said, and that he would understand why she was late and that she really was truly sorry.
Of course she had missed the beginning of the conversation, but she had caught the young man James she believed his name was sentence about lowering housing costs. Tracy felt that it might be a fair thing to discuss. Looking toward Nathan, she smiled as she approached where he was sitting and sat down next to him.
"I think James might actually have a point with that statement" she said, "Sorry I missed the start of the meeting" she said out loud now, apologising to everybody else in the room.
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Post by melissa on Jan 23, 2009 16:11:30 GMT -5
"God dammit" Melissa shouted as she smacked her hands against the steering wheel of her car in frustration. She was supposed to have been at a Cabinet Meeting ten minutes ago and the traffic was so heavy she was now running ten minutes late. God only knows how much she had missed already. She hated being late for anything, but in particular since getting the job working at the Government, she hated being late, particularly when it was a meeting called by the President himself.
Flipping open her cell phone she called into the reception. "Could you pass a note to President Petrelli and make my apologies for being late, I've got stuck in traffic, this Melissa Archer. Thank you" and then she closed the phone and threw it on the passenger seat as she continued to make her way to the White House.
A car accident further up the road had caused the problem and after another ten minutes Melissa was clear of it, and she reached the White House in five minutes. Making her twenty five minutes late in total. She quickly made her way to where the meeting was being held, and knocked on the door, before opening it.
Flustered and red in the face and feeling completely embarrassed about being late, she smiled weakly, "I'm very sorry for being late President Petrelli, could someone fill me in please?" she asked, as she took a seat toward the back of the room, so as not to make any more fuss of her late arrival than she already had.
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Post by blackregret21 on Jan 25, 2009 11:57:12 GMT -5
Nathan listened to Mohinder and James. Mohinder said he had an idea of a new type of fuel. But this fuel wouldn’t go right with some people, of course. “Well, go forth with that Mohinder. We can’t worry about what people think in a time like this” he said.
Then James jumped in with a suggestion. A suggestion to cut down the prices of the houses. That would have been a good idea except they couldn’t do that. The houses were clear cut; they had to stay at the price they were at. But maybe he was off in the right direction. As soon as James started Tracy entered the room after knocking on the door.
She had apologized as soon as she had entered the room. Nathan nodded back. It was okay that she was late. It was their first cabinet meeting. Just as Nathan was about to continue to speak, a secretary had entered came up to Nathan and whispered to him that Miss Archer would be late as well. He nodded back to her and she left.
“Well we can’t cut the prices of houses. But James you might be on to something. We could do a nation-wide water restriction.” Nathan began as another idea popped into his head. “Maybe we could also find a way to recycle the electricity.” But as he said this, he thought this might have been a stupid idea.
Finally, Miss Archer had entered the room with a knock on the door. She sat down near the door, obviously not trying to cause a fuss. Nathan greeted her with a nod and began to explain to her what they were talking about. “Miss Archer, we are going over the economy situation. And how the government can help out. I don’t think I can deal with the second ‘great depression’.” he finished.
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Post by mohinder on Jan 25, 2009 23:20:07 GMT -5
Mohinder listened as James put forth an idea. He wasn’t sure why he would even think about that idea on alternative fuels. Of course, it really didn’t matter to him. He was just doing his job and he kind of liked his job. He didn’t want to get fired. Nevertheless, as he thought about more on the situation he kind of forgot that there were other members of the cabinet present.
He glanced up and saw Tracy come in and then listened to her agree with James on the lowering house prices. To be honest, Mohinder didn’t understand why they would need to lower housing. Sure the Economy was in a recession, and forecloses were the normal of the Economy and job losses were the newest trend on the evening news.
He then watched as Melissa the Secretary of Urban and Housing Development came in. He just started to write down random ideas. He didn’t know what to do. The cabinet was only a few strong, the rest were waiting confirmation from the Senate and House of Representatives. He sighed as he glanced up when Nathan told him to go forth with the alternative fuel sources.
“Alright” He began, “Water reduction might be a good idea and we have some communities that recycle electricity, perhaps we could give these communities a tax break or something like that” He said knowing that his idea was probably the most stupid in the world. He glanced around the room waiting for a response.
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Post by jamesward on Jan 28, 2009 17:14:49 GMT -5
James glanced up as the two more cabinet members entered the meeting. He was somewhat thankful for their arrival. It meant people took their eyes off him. Even if it was for a brief moment, he was thankful for it. He was slightly nervous about the idea of lowering house prices. However, once he heard that some people agreed with him, he brightened up and sat up straighter.
"Well there are already some tight water restrictions in some states like Georgia and Florida. If we are going to put water restrictions, then we'd have to pick an already working system to use. Putting a tax break does sound good." he said the last part uncertainly. Man he wished he'd paid more attention in econ class.
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Post by tracy on Feb 1, 2009 16:51:09 GMT -5
Tracy sat quietly and listened as Nathan said they couldn't lower the housing cost, she wasn't sure why they couldn't, but she wasn't going to argue about it, there were reasons why they couldn't. But they could certainly make adjustments elsewhere, and when Nathan mentioned water restriction and recycling electricity, Tracy nodded her head.
"That could work" Tracy agreed giving Nathan a smile, and nodding her head as Melissa Archer walked into the room also. Tracy couldn't say much, after all she had only arrived just before her. She was asking what she had missed, thankfully Nathan let her know as Tracy hadn't got the start of the meeting either.
Mohinder then mentioned about a tax break which sounded like a good idea as well. Anything they could do to help would be beneficial for everybody Tracy thought.
"Yes, I believe that could work also, so rather than house costs themselves going down, possibly domestic costs within keeping the house, so electricity recycling and water restrictions are definitely a good start" Tracy said smiling and looking toward Melissa, after all this would be her area of expertise.
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Post by melissa on Feb 1, 2009 17:02:11 GMT -5
Melissa felt terrible for being late, but thankfully it was the first meeting, and it would seem that President Petrelli wasn't too annoyed about the fact, which was great as far as Melissa was concerned. She was glad that he was also willing to get her up to speed on what she had missed before entering the room.
She gave him a warm smile. "Thank you President Petrelli" she said in a loud and clear voice. Of course at this point, she then heard some of the other members suggestions on helping cut costs down. Melissa knew that cutting costs down of the houses themselves wasn't a high possibility, and as electricity and water had been brought up already, she wondered about the possibility of central heating costs.
"I can hear some of the suggestions mentioned already sound very good to me, have you considered the possible help with cutting central heating costs down also? Particularly among the elderly" she said, actually shaking a little that she had even dared to mention something.
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Post by blackregret21 on Feb 16, 2009 18:41:28 GMT -5
Nathan took in all the ideas of the suggestions that people made. He began to jot them down in his notebook.
Water Restrictions
Recycle Electricity
Tax Break
Alternative Fuel
He stared at the list as he looked over it. Pondering on how this bill to help the economy should go. The most people spend there money is on Water, Electricity and Fuel.
“We should put a nation-wide restriction on water, nation-wide recycling electricity and restrict it at the same time. And of course find an alternative fuel.” he finished as he looked over the crowd and stopped by looking at Mohinder.
“All those in favor say ‘Aye’, all those who oppose say ‘Nay’.” Nathan continued, and then waited for everyone suggestion to make it a bill or not.
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Post by mohinder on Mar 10, 2009 17:45:23 GMT -5
Mohinder Suresh nodded as he listened to everyone who were possibly agreeing with his ideas. This seemed kind of odd to him. He was just the damn Human Affairs and Health secretary and the Science Advisor. He decided to reflect on the cause at hand. It would be best if he didn’t.
“I know some sources that would be good for alternative fuel, but people are going to be pretty upset about it” Mohinder said with a slight pause. “But I will lobby them to some of the Senators I know” He said with a nod as he made eye contact with the President.
President Petrelli then asked if they were all going to agree. He decided to say yes, because it was probably necessary for them to do a nationwide reduction. “Aye” Mohinder said, he was one of the first to speak up. He wondered what the rest would say.
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Post by jamesward on Mar 12, 2009 14:24:13 GMT -5
James wasn't sure what the whole thing would lead to. He was just thinking on what he thought should have been done. Fortunately he was in the same boat as Nathan, so he didn't have any trouble agreeing with the policies. He held up his hand and said "Aye."
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