Obama Brings Hope to Treasure Sellers

Many tourists find themselves on the streets of Chinatown, wandering up and down Canal Street looking for something to bring home from their big city adventure. How will the outcome of the presidential election affect the treasures they bring home?

Tarun Karmaker owns the NYC Mini Mall on Canal Street, which sells New York souvenirs, watches and purses. Due to the economy, he has noticed that people have not been buying as many of his products.

However, he and his employees feel that Obama will bring the change needed to improve sales.

“I am suffering,” Karmaker said. “People are not buying. They have no money.”

Karmaker could not pin point a single item that his customers were buying less of. Instead, he expressed concern that they were buying less of everything.

“I had another store down the street,” said Karmaker. “But I had to sell it because of the economy.”

The Mini Mall is not Karmaker’s only business; he also sells real estate - a prospect that has been negatively affected by the economy as well.

Obama winning the Presidential election on November 4th would help to improve his businesses, expressedKarmaker.

“Obama will be good for the economy,” he said. “He’ll stop the war.”

Karmaker thinks having the war end will help the economy and make it possible for people to have more money to spend.

“Once everything is okay financially, people will make more money and be happy,” he said.

“ I prefer Obama,” said Mamob Rathman who works with Karmaker at the NYC Mini Mart. “Obama will get it done.”