Obama team: send us your ideas

Did you ever think that rather than giving my tax dollars to these greedy companies to pay golden parachutes and bonuses for people who have proven they can't run a company.....why are they broke?

Give $100,000.00 (tax free) to every family that filed a tax return last year. We can pay on or pay off our home...help the mortgage problem...trade autos, help the auto industry...
go to "WalMart" ..help the retail market...it might surprise you just how fast it would get back into the economy......

I think you would see the effect a lot faster than giving it to "fat cats" who have already
screwed up.

Thanks,,,,

Frank--being so polite--didn't want to mention that Valerie Jarrett also included a footnote stating that Bubba Porter and Paulo need not bother submitting their ideas.

Dear President-elect Obama,

We the undersigned citizens of the United States hereby formally request of you to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all Bush administration officials who have participated in Torture and War Crimes in our name.

Sincerely,
80% of America and most of the World

Wonder if the issues are going to be censored like all other other Obam missteps such as the Obam Senator list to Blago.

Frank--being so polite--didn't want to mention that Valerie Jarrett also included a footnote stating that Bubba Porter and Paulo need not bother submitting their ideas.

Posted by: Flo | January 14, 2009 4:38 PM
Well put Flo-
Bubba and Paulos have just as much right to blog as Obama has to make CHANGES.

The paragraph Valerie Jarrett deleted:
"And after you send us your suggestion, your email address will be in our files and we'll send you annoying fundraising appeals every day for the next 4 years."

Obama wants our ideas now that he got our votes. If Obama wants to be re-elected he will prolly go first to his rolerdex of email names and addresses. Only problem is, he has been slapping down the people who helped to get him elected, the people who have already given him good ideas. Many of the people who helped get Mr. Lets-Look-To-The-Future-With-No-Justice-Needed OBama elected will hold their ideas to themselves--in case we need to elect someone who really will give us change we can believe in. We need justice. We need to know that America is a nation where no one is above the law. Obama is saying that we need to look ahead and not behind us. That is saying to never arrest or indict another person in America. Lets all look to the future. It'll save billions in prison bills. Disband the DOJ and turn all prisons into greenhouses. What a flaky dude. What a cow-tower to the right who called him a terrorist. They will do it again in 2212--no matter HOW much he insists on looking forward.

uhh, could someone look in on Viv? Big Orange Pumpkin; check her meds, STAT.

Good point Bloggers-.
All this is a ploy to get E Mail addresses to send out Obama admirstration propaganda.

suggest that to help auto ind
that the govt use some of TARP to replace autos in all govt, municiplaties and states that have 100,000 miles or more. this would make plants operate and keep employees
from being laid off. This a direct infusion. All purchases
through local dealerships.

Could someone wake ObamabotsACTIVATE up and suggest he/she offer a substantive comment. ObamabotsACTIVATE seems to think that those who support the theory that no one is above the law require Rx. ObamabotsACTIVATE might be more comfortable living in Ch!na. Change we can believe in. 'Change' and 'believe' are the two operative words.

It is manipulative for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to be trading on the commodities exchanges and holding a short position equal to 25 percent of annual world silver production (data found in the actual U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (USCFTC) reports),
In the Bank Participation Report for January, two or three U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase) have increased their gold net short position to levels matching the extremes of the August report, some 80,000 contracts (8 million ounces), or 10% of world annual mine production,
Whereas, the United States claims to hold some 8133 tons of gold, which cannot be sold without an Act of Congress (said holdings can be leased or swapped). Further these holdings have never been audited.
Whereas, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Treasury Secretary Designee Robert Rubin are both former employees of Goldman Sachs,
I hereby request that the USCFTC immediately begin an investigation of these institutions and their respective roles in this manipulation and that former employees of these institutions be barred from any role in said investigations.
Further, an independent audit of the United States gold reserves and an immediate halt to all leases and trades are necessary to protect the integrity of the nation’s financial system.

It's time for full disclosure on the UFO issue as well as all similar "mysteries". the American people (and the world population in general) can handle it. This type of governmental "coming clean" would also greatly raise your prestige with everyone.

Stop the closure of Brunswick Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine. All squadrons are scheduled to relocate to Jacksonville, FL between now and December 2009. This will create a loss of 4000-5000 direct jobs, plus a ripple effect while the federal government is trying to improve the economy through other agencies. Plus the mission of the squadrons does not change, only their location. The DoD will save the relocation costs, for now as well.
The decision to close/relocate can be reconsidered when the economic recovery is underway.

What do you and all other pols not understand about the word "growth"?
It is always used positively, except in the field of medicine, where it is ominous. We live on a finite planet, with finite resources, which have already been seriously depleted. The world is overpopulated. We do not
need more people, and we DO NOT need immigrants - especially illegals.

I have NEVER submitted a comment before, yet you reject me. Why?

It is time to release the availabel information on UFO's so that we can use the anti-grivity technology involved.

Timothy Geithner will, regrettably, be used for EIGHT YEARS as an example of your judgment.

While I commend your standing by him, the nature of his role is such that "paying your taxes" trumps all else.

He should be appointed to a second level position where his talents can be applied, but his name be more obscure.

I think the Briefing Book sounds like a good idea and I hope people take it seriously (including the President-Elect). There are some really good posts about transportation, energy independence, and education and nutrition. But the one that stuck with me the most was about Making Lung Cancer History. We've heard about all the other issues before; why haven't we heard about this tragedy before this? It was news to me, so it got voted up! Check it out...check out all the issues...some of them aren't exactly of national importance, so speak your mind and vote those down. Let the sensible ones surface.

Jan. 23, 2009

President Obama,

A suggestion for the stimulus package is one of your campaign promises, the elimination of Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.

This would help the retired public employees, it could help some save their homes, and others could give up jobs that non retired unemployed people could get.

And lastly it would be fair.

People without government jobs can and do have two retirements, why are we penalized for being public employees and not allowed to have both our retirements that we funded?

The cost of this correction is incidental to billions of dollars wasted on Wall Street for golden parachutes and bonuses that were not deserved.

Please seriously consider backing and pushing this through congress. It is the fair and right thing to do.

Granted, this will not fix much dollar wise, but the confidence builder among the American People is priceless. The American People will see the government, your administration, helping the common people, not the rich, unscrupulous mongrels on Wall Street. Just think about that.

Sincerely,

Les Korody

I'm a 59 yr old - Detroit born - Vietnam veteran. I believe in President Obama and his commitment to his office.

I would like to see more details how millions of jobs will be created spending 850 billion dollars. I believe his intentions are clear and honorable. And I am in the dark as to how these millions of jobs will be created?

If possible - can a projected number of jobs be specified for each category of spending? I believe millions of Americans will be most pleased to have this kind of information.

I know the number for construction jobs is 28500 per billion dollars invested. And I would love to see more details and more money spent in this area.

If I may assist in any way - please do me the honor of asking.

Timothy Rea

I think that at least $50B of the $350b tarp money should be used to tackle fore-closures by getting the banks to modify loans and help families stay in their homes as well as helping families who are current on their mortgage getting a tax break based on the current appraisal of their homes. This would result in stemming the tide of this foreclosure debacle which plays a major part in this economic meltdown and until we tackle this foreclosure problem, we will not be able to get out of this economic mess.

hi
more heated roads (freeze)tesla
solar (lances ?)
wind power underground(huge ventilation)ships
cars floating car(jet planes tech)
make Freezer for h20 weather simulator huge no pipes from sea
new tv,phones, pc ,games feal hologram and make new computers beam laser(music!!!!!!) hologram ackt fast
moon colony
africa for food supplies new tech,arabia water
india electricity power need rush
market china all tech to them
implants to prisoners(killers)
if usa fail maybe 3 war nuclear

America needs to catch the new ideas and solutions and develop and use them do develop and inrich America first before the rest of the woprld do, so that America can remain on the lead for the world to remain peaceful and stable.

I HAVE AN IDEA FOR AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY/ECO-SOLUTION

please i need help to save my house ,bank country wide dont want to help me ,bank said is no program to helpme and haved contac with them for more 1 year ,and now said no because i has to paid 100,000 dolares to back to regular payments, i live with my family and i very worry with this problem ,i dont know what to do ,i feel losse everything,my address is 600 litlle e. neck rd. west babylon ny.11704, please send message to the mr. president BARACK OBAMA this is very important tankyou.

$168 Billion Back Into US Economy Every Year With Jetstream Wind National Renewable Electric Grid

Santa Fe, New Mexico – February 10, 2009 Jetstream Wind Inc delivers the Jetstream Initiative; a plan for a national sustainable electric grid using renewable technology to produce electricity directly from the grid as well as transmit it across the United States.

With the national grid producing its own energy, a 10:1 yearly return on investment ($168,000,000,000) is projected, paying back implementation costs in less than four years. It will create approximately 7 million new jobs, while adding no additional burden to taxpayers as it is designed to use public/private ventures for its development.

It will possess the ability to charge 300 million electric cars overnight, deliver state-of-the-art power, and can eventually remove the need for fossil fuels as an energy source.

The Jetstream Initiative complements the existing grid and adds the potential of local hydrogen storage developed with technology from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

According to Henry Herman, CEO of Jetstream Wind, Inc, “The problem isn’t that the technology hasn’t caught up with our current needs. The difficulty lies in the inability to effectively utilize this technology and transmit the energy from solar, wind, solar thermal, and hydrogen to the places where it is most needed. The United States is at a historical turning point where the benefits of generating clean energy on a national scale actually exceed any reasons for delaying the process. The economic stimulus to this nation would be renewable energy.”

The renewable grid employs Turbine Transmission Line (TTL) technology patented by Jetstream Wind Inc, which it is offering to the US government to use in its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Jetstream Wind is an innovative wind, solar, solar thermal and hydrogen company based in New Mexico. The commitment of Jetstream Wind is in the development and integration of renewable technologies to maximize wind, solar, hydrogen, and geothermal potentials for environmental and economic stabilization. At this time, ten national and international renewable energy plants are scheduled for implementation, the first breaking ground in the spring of 2009 in Northern New Mexico. To learn more please visit our website at http://www.jetstreamwind.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Mr. Henry Herman, CEO Jetstream Wind, Inc

Dear President Obama,
Please consider implementing the Fair Tax. It would make America a prosperous country again. It is a viable alternative for Businesses across the globe. This country would experience an influx of Business coming back to America. This would undoubtedly create jobs and quadruple the tax base. It would eliminate the trade deficit, and make us a country of producers again and not outsourcers. It would end the complicated tax code, who even financial geniouses can't even figure out. It would put more money back into the pockets of the hardworking Americans. It would not increase the price of the products that we buy; it would only replace the embedded taxes already in the price of everything we buy, this is a fact. Also, it would increase the annual income of the poor by 7% by giving a monthly rebate check to cover the taxes paid each month on necessities. I believe this is the only real alternative for stimulating the economy.
Thank you for listening.

Why do car manufacturers build cars/trucks that can be driven at more than twice the speed limit? What would happen if all vehicles used on public roads had an 80 mph speed limit? Would this be feasible?

Dear Obama, I hope that you can help me as soon as posible-my mom went to puerto rico and now she wants to come back but,.....at the airport she fell in the hands of miagration. I have a little sister and we sincerly miss her Sincerly,GRACE BADOS

Regarding the question of whether or not to nationalize healthcare, why not change the question to "why not nationalize certain logical parts of healthcare for everyone, and leave the things privatized that make sense to be privatized. For example, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or such, could be free for all Americans while most other things could be much like status quo. It makes sense to me.

I was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley as an engineer in 1959, and my brother in 1961. We have both had successful careers and are now retired.

UC Berkeley is one of the nations top research universities and it is rapidly being driven to mediocre status.

When we attended, the university did not charge tuition. Ronald Reagan was heard to say "why should I pay for someone else's education". This is an utterly selfish statement by a person who should have known better. This statement gives one an insight into cockeyed conservative thinking. State universities throughout the nation should have no tuition. We should do as they do in many European nations and provide a free college education to anyone qualified if they desire to attend.

This however is not what this email is about. I am very concerned that cuts in university budgets by conservative operatives are endangering our way of life. We are being dumbed down and will not survive the 21st Century if we don't produce college graduates with exemplary skills.

Today I received this email from the UC Alumni Association. Every year I pledge to the school of engineering but this is not enough.

"An open letter to UC alumni and friends

At the corner of 13th and Franklin Streets in downtown Oakland, a worn bronze plaque hangs on the wall of a two-story parking garage. Easy to miss, state Historical Marker No. 45 identifies the spot where, 140 years ago, a California miracle began. Here the University of California spent its infancy, occupying a two-story Victorian that had housed one of the state's first colleges. In 1873 the university—after graduating an original class of 12—migrated to Berkeley and began its rise as a land-grant college dedicated to teaching agriculture, mining and the mechanical arts.

The enterprise, of course, has endured, and then some. Under the stewardship of some great leaders, and with the support of alumni like you and, for that matter, all of California, the University has grown from its humble origins to the point where it now stretches all across the state, from Merced to Santa Barbara, Riverside to San Francisco, Irvine to Santa Cruz, San Diego to Davis, Los Angeles to Berkeley—10 campuses, five medical centers, three national laboratories, 225,000 students, 55 Nobel Prizes and 1.6 million alumni.

It is to that great army of alumni, along with other friends and beneficiaries of the University of California, that we write today, and we do so with a sense of great urgency—to ask you to become engaged as never before in building legislative and financial support for this great institution.

This is a time of peril for the University we all love.

The UC model—providing universal access to a top-notch, low-cost education and research of the highest caliber—continues to be studied around the globe among those who would emulate its success. And yet, this model has been increasingly abandoned at home by the state government responsible for its core funding.

In the past 20 years, the amount of money allotted to the University through the state budget has fallen dramatically: General Fund support for a UC student stood at $15,860 in 1990. If current budget projections hold, it will drop this year to $7,680.

Moreover, it now appears likely the UC system, in this current fiscal crisis, will be ordered by Sacramento to absorb yet another $800-plus million in additional cuts. Its 2009–10 core budget will be reduced by an estimated 20 percent. This will bring the amount of state investment in the University down to $2.4 billion—exactly where it was in real dollars a decade ago.

In the same time frame, by the way, funding for state prisons has more than doubled, from $5 to $11 billion. It's been reported that, based on current spending trends, California's prison budget soon will overtake that of the state's universities and community colleges.

And so, our work is cut out for us. As one Chairman of the Board of Regents steps down and another takes over, we are asking you, as stewards of UC, to step up and help arrest this slide of support, as quickly as possible. It's often said that it takes 40 years to build up a great university, but only a few to tear one down.

Elected officials in Sacramento who control our core budget must be asked to re-examine their priorities when it comes to future higher education funding. They also need to understand that a fiscal crisis is precisely the wrong time to be putting the pinch on education. Consider what Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote in a recent column:

"… The country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter and more innovative—and endows its people with more tools and basic research to invent new goods and services—is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road. We might be able to stimulate our way back to stability, but we can only invent our way back to prosperity. We need everyone at every level to get smarter."

The core money UC receives from taxpayers, via Sacramento, goes to the nuts and bolts of higher education, everything from paying professors to lighting laboratories. But it also establishes the institutional foundation needed to attract the research grants and endowments that enhance the mission and burnish the University's international status.

Over time it's been money well-spent. Of the more than 4,000 higher education institutions in the nation, only 60 research universities, public and private, have been judged worthy of membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. The UC has six members. No other state system has more than one.

In turn, the University has given back to California, not only by educating generations of high-achieving Californians, but also through its triumphs of research. From better ways to grow tomatoes to the birth of biotech, from viticulture to cancer treatments, UC campuses have been incubators of countless scientific and product breakthroughs that add quality to California life and invigorate its economy. For 15 years in a row, UC has developed more patents than any other university in the country.

This is what's put at risk as state support shrinks. In the end, there are two choices: excellence or mediocrity. While a mediocre UC might cost less in the short term, over time it will enforce on society its own ledger of taxes. Top professors and researchers will begin to drift away, taking with them the best students. Pools of grant money will recede. The engines of invention will sputter.

To those who complain the university has been bloated, wasteful, we say this is a new day. In the last few years, we have seen the institution reform itself. Under a new administration, it is setting new standards for transparency and leadership. We've worked hard to maintain strong bond ratings, cut spending in the Office of the President by $60 million, and taken additional cost-cutting measures at the campus level. But there is only so much that can be cut. We are no longer chopping at fat and muscle. With the new cuts, as proposed, we soon will be slicing into bone.

And so, there is much at stake and the threat is real. Now is the time for alumni and other supporters and beneficiaries of the University to spread the word that UC excellence must be preserved and nurtured. Please, do whatever you can. Take time to write a letter or an email to your political representatives. Or lend whatever support possible to the UC system or to your preferred campus.

The message—not in just this current crisis, but into the future as well—must be clear: A just-good-enough University of California would not be good enough at all. Mediocrity is not an option. It’s time to start fighting back for the UC.

Richard C. Blum, Immediate Past Chair, UC Board of Regents
Russell S. Gould, Chair, UC Board of Regents
Sherry Lansing, Vice Chair, UC Board of Regents
Mark G. Yudof, President, University of California"

We must support our state universities. We also must provide free tuition to all comers.

The way this nation has been heading, we will be a third world nation before the end of this century unless we take action. We will be a nation in which one percent will be obscenly rich while the rest of us live in poverty. This is totally unacceptable to me as a progressive.

Perhaps, similar to the GI Bill, we can provide a "GI Bill" for people who volunteer to serve the nation with the promise that they will serve the nation either before or after college.

Ok, i have 2 comments to make as to how to create jobs and also decrease the unemployment rate. But i need to insert some things in your minds. What if these jobs are not hiring because they are outsourcing everything? What if they dont want someone with a bad background? What about credit?
Here are some idea, and my ideas may need a little more molding, but i want to get the gist out to you.
Stop these companies from having the eligibility of doing a background check so far back. All they need is the last 5 years. Nothing past that. Some people have done some of the dumbest, yet harmless crimes and caused a felony, which auto-disqualifies you from almost every job. People who should be able to go back are law enforcement, President, things like that, i understand. But not to flip burgers. Not to work from home handling technical support calls. YES EVEN WORK FROM HOME does a background check. That is ridiculous. Limit Background checks. And don't give them an option to pay their way out of it.
Next, overtax companies who want to use 3rd parties outside of the US. in 2003, SBC resigned over 300 workers. Call ATT technical support now, more than likely, you are calling India. Why, well, they paid us 9/hr to answer these phones. They pay India 4-5/hr which is lower than our minimum wage. So US needs to tax companies who want to give jobs somewhere else. Make it cheaper to hire within.!
By the way, in Texas, they can go back as far as they want. They went 7 years on me, and went 16 years on one of my colleagues.
5 years is good enough. If they dont like it, tough luck! Be lucky you get 5 years.