An unemployed Maine carpenter wrote President Obama asking if America’s future was as bleak as it seems — and got a handwritten reply from the president. But Charles Oliver, a 53-year-old former Marine, had to sell that letter and the one he wrote on eBay to meet expenses.
“The reason for this letter, sir, is to ask my president one specific question. Mr. President are we as Americans going to be alright?” he wrote.
Obama replied: “Charles, I know things are tough right now and I won’t lie to you — it will probably take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole.” The letter fetched $2,500.
