OPEN THREAD: White House "Open for Questions" experiment.
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.Immediate withdrawal from Iraq
.No lobbyist
.No taxes on anyone making less than 200k
.Financial responsibility
Any of this ring a bell?
And why do you appear to be Bush on steroids? rather than the "change" we were looking for, we got Bush 3!
I actually did ask a question on his "open for questions" page. It was straight to the point:
"Why are we letting the federal reserve profit from our debt when we could just as easily print our money ourselves? Wouldn't it seem logical to do so rather than pay interest on every single bill that is printed out of thin air?"
If you see it, be sure to give it a vote ; ]
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M$If anyone can make it work, this administration is the one to take it on. We've seen Obama's refusal to completely give up his Blackberry and his excellent use of technology during the campaign. The White House website is already much more useful. This seems a logical "next step" in keeping the administration less isolated than those in the past have been.
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Sorry! Your comment/question sneaked by me without my notice!
My understanding is his new, government issued Blackberry is encrypted like nothing before. With the level of scrutiny given to his use of the new device, they've probably outfitted it wih something pretty extreme to prevent benefit from unauthorized possession - not quite "this phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds", but something like it.
Great response, bbrookin! I agree that Obama takes the public's concerns very seriously, and I think it is really interesting that he would not give up his Blackberry. What do you think would happen should Obama lose his Blackberry? Personally, I'm worried about military secrets being so readily available to a thief.
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EXACTLY!! There are over 300 Million Americans... how many will respond to this? I have no idea... but even 100,000 responses still gives them ample room to pick and choose which questions to ask! If anything this is a waste of time.
Plus, the Government didn't exactly take a class or major in economics. If you want information about health you go to the doctor. If you want to learn about economics, ask an economist. Sometimes I think American's are retarded.
Well, if they are public at least at first, anyone could count them and see which are the most popular or the best and create a list to publish in the papers.
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M$I am a bit concerned about hackers and elephants trying to crash the site.
I really hope it works, it would be a very important experiment.
Should Mahalo review the best economy questions here and see if they're the same in the government site?
Should the Mahalo community answer them first or try to pronosticate the President's answers?
I'm still thinking...
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