As someone going through the process (finally approved after hitting the cap a couple of years so stuck here as a "non resident alien" with all the problems that offers) I'd certainly like to see it become much more streamlined and predictable.
I have a degree and 20 years experience. I'm not coming here to bludge off the healthcare system but to be a productive consumer. Heck, I've even bought a Mustang!
Now we're approved I still have to leave the country (with wife and daughter in tow), go to a US embassy and get another stamp in my passport and come back... knowing a border guard could still turn me away!
And then I've got the green card process to look forward to... and if I actually want to become a citizen that might be done in time for one of Obamas kids to be running for office!

this implies for one moment that the bloated, inefficient machine that apparently runs this country would allow any real accountability to creep into the process.

I'm perhaps a little more cynical than most (and as a non voting non citizen I'm taxed without representation which I feel is even more unfair) but until we incorporate the princliples of accountability into Government, the Civil Service, Defence spending etc and reform the current tax code (by putting a line through it, rebuilding from scratch on a simple loophole free proposition) a significant percentage of the trillion dollars will not benefit the vast majority of taxpayers and citizens.

I watch the cost of the war, and Bush spending tax payers dollars to under-write commercial logging of 2000 year old sequoia forests and wonder what the Founding Fathers would have to say - "Begads" would, I suspect, just be the start of it!

It looks very neat. But it doesn't solve the one big problem I have... MP3 libraries scattered over 4 machines, some files with better tags. Some songs duplicated, some songs the same filename but better quality... and a manual process to sort out what I want as the master!

Now if they could create an add-on to do that sort of data management it would rock!