We did it!
More coming soon - nearly a week after, I’m still stunned that Barack Obama is our President-elect!
Thank you so much, for everything that you all have done over the past months. We’ve come a long way since Justin and I were up working in New Hampshire over the primaries, and I can’t wait to see where we as a country go next.
david, paul, adam, hi,
are you guys wanting to continue to be a part of the bottom up change?
i think we, and whoever else we can get to do it, should each individually write an entry about obama works on change.gov (at the bottom of the page where is says open government share your ideas). telling our experience with ow during the campaign, but also make it clear that we have a database of volunteers who want to be part of the change and need direction. i think we should ask pres obama to direct us into our next project, something that is part of his agenda and something that will truly make a difference.
what do you think? what other ideas do you have?
i am planning to write something, but i feel we have a greater chance of getting some attention if many, many letters get written on behalf of obama works. and i think it’s important to do it soon, while everyone is still feeling the energy and enthusiasm.
i also wanted to make sure you guys are planning to keep obama works going before i do this.
laura
Comment by Laura — November 12, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
I want to keep Obama Works going. Is there anyone in the Midwest (Twin Cities) interested? There’s a lot of work to get done in this country and with alittle focus it would be nice to be a part of a movement like this that lives on after the campaign and into the new times of the Obama presidency.
Comment by Terry Barnes — November 17, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
Through all of your campaign Mr. Obama, you have stood as a real beacon of change for this nation. Fortunately, those with a level head, a belief in how great this country can and should be and the passion to try and get us back on the right track prevailed and elected you to office. It was a very proud day for this nation, and it deeply touched me that we did the right thing in electing you. voting with our hearts and heads, and not from a place of fear or hopelessness, as the Republican ticket wanted us to do.
For myself, I believe that while it will be a very long and hard road to complete the changes you envision, it will be done in a slow and precise way, which will create a better future for all of us here in the US and abroad.
I have read your plans on changing the taxation levels for Americans, and I agree that the upper 10% need to pay their fair share, along with the lower income brackets. However, have you considered doing something that had the potential to shore up our economy and possibly help everything that has slid so far into this coming depression?
If you truly want to help the middle and lower income families in the US to survive the recent economic disaster of failing banks and credit institutions, please consider abolishing the Federal Income Tax for a two year period, while this country recovers.
The most recent attempts to put band aids on the economy in the form of “free money” with Bush’s incentive to spend plans have not worked, for obvious reasons. Many people like myself just put that money towards our income tax payments or mortgage payments that we are increasingly finding harder to meet each month any way.
By abolishing the Federal Income Tax for a brief period, you would be returning direct money to those who are suffering the most, and even those that make a quarter of a million or more each year, would have the ability to put their money into the stock market, the banks and lenders, and even potentially into new businesses and create new jobs which would truly help to turn this country around in a very short period of time, compared to what the situation is right now.
I know that this nation survives on the taxes it collects. Right or wrong, that is the way it has been for hundreds of years. But at this time in our history, maybe the money that the citizens are earning from their own, individual, hard work should be allowed to shore up the individual, which will keep this nation stronger in the long run.
Comment by Sherry Moyes — December 5, 2008 @ 9:53 pm