During Tuesday evening’s election returns, Prof. Henry Jenkins of the MIT Media Lab and i had a brief exchange during a live chat on pbs.org’s MediaShift site about how the Obama team and its supporters will channel all the energy and passion from the presidential campaign — really, a political movement as much as a campaign — into executing real political reform.
Now we see the beginning contours of a first move in this direction: Change.gov. Yesterday the site received so many visitors that the servers couldn’t handle the load.
AssociatedContent.com: Obama Plan Starts at Change.gov
President-elect Barack Obama has already gotten started with putting his plan for change into effect with use of the new website change.gov. He is asking that Americans do their part in changing America.
zdnet: WhiteHouse.gov will never be the same.
100mortgages.org: Change.gov Obama website is live: Can he change the housing market?
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To President- elect Obama,
Thank for the opportunity to voice my opinion.
I realize the nation’s and the world’s financial situation is going to be addressed before any other business.
My only hope is that the greed that created it, is left behind and a more reasonable balanced approach can emerge when looking at our needs.
This brings me to my real concern which seems far more important than money issues and that is the physical health of Americans citizens. For a country leading the world in consumption of just about everything, Americans citizens are a sick lot in general. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes and others are epidemic proportions. Finding the causes are not a good financial alternative for corporations who flourish on peoples ills.
My hope is that in the days ahead your selection for the head of the Dept. of Agriculture and the Dept of Interior,FDA any of the government offices that will influence how America’s lands, farming, consumption of drugs, use of chemicals in the enviorment, etc are adddressed will be people that will look to the health of human beings first, corporate interests second.
It not only harms our economy, but gives an extremely poor reputation world wide when American government supports things such as ocean polluting fish farms, big agriculture(and small home agriculture also I might add) that continues to throw disease promoting chemicals into our soil and enviorment and worse yet uses GMO’s which we have not idea what the impact to our health will be.
I have so much more to say. I trust you will choose wisely those who will oversee the real health of the American people. I would lke to see organic farming promoted and supported, small farmers given a fair shake and research stopped on GM foods untilsome one can honestly tell us they healthy and llast but not least, lets stop pushing our poor food habits on inhabitants of the world and quit sending them our outlawed chemicals. If one place pollutes it pollutes the world.
Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion. And thank you for the hope and light you have brought to the world. My prayers and good wishes are with you as you lead us to a brighter time.
Sincerely, Kathy Ross
Bigfork, Mt
We have just read the Guwande article in the New Yorker Magazine. We agree with much that was stated, but we feel that doctors alone cannot be blamed for health care problems. One has to look at the HMO's and their billing practices, their huge CEO and managerial salaries, and their lack of consideration for patients and doctors alike. My husband is a retired Urologist, who was in a group practice for 30 years. He watched his office staff grow and costs increase due to the constant fighting with HMO's. He is not alone; there are many qualified M.D.'s who have left medicine in frustration.