Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: Peter L. Padorr

May 6, 2009

OBAMA PROMISED TO CLEAN UP WALL STREET.... PLEASE ELIMINATE THE NAKED SHORTS AND RE-ESTABLISH TO UPTICK RULE... THE REPUBLICAN FAT CATS IN CONGRESS DURING THE LAST EIGHT YEARS ELIMINATED THE PROTECTIONS ESTABLISHED AFTER THE 1929 CRASH. THIS GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE THE MARKET, TAKING AVANTAGE OF THE LITTLE GUYS AND DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS IN THIS COUNTRY.