Thank you Mr. Deese for the reassurance that the Transition Team is taking the discussions that take place on this website seriously and offer feedback directly.

Given the events of just today (the auto-maker bailout bill's end in the Senate and subsequent White House call for the bailout money to come from the previously passed funding bill that was intended to help the mortgage lenders and banks), we need to continue and increase our activity at local and regional and national levels regarding how we spend and save our funds.

Long term solutions are coming into focus. What I for one would love to read about in more depth here are simple, immediate solutions individuals can undertake to help not just themselves but others.

Thank you.

I agree with and echo your sentiments about both the lack of cooperation and potential monopolization of mobile telephone services with regards to signal carrier towers. Perhaps a solution to the problem you lay out is one of those rare instances that the Federal Government can inject?

Nationalize the towers and place them under the jurisdiction of the FCC for monitoring and the Interior department for their localization and upkeep.

The companies will then have their company's service features to inter-compete with (a reasonable activity), they will pay the Federal Government for the service upkeep of towers (revenue for the Budget), limitations in service will be subject to the technology of the time rather than the cost of providing the service through the company (equalizing customer access and protecting neutrality) and finally the locations of the towers can finally be monitored and constructed through a streamlined and environmentally responsible methodology (no longer requiring companies to go through permission checks to build their own towers thus saving money and lowering costs for service.)

It's an idea. Thoughts?

I've worked in health care for over 20 years now and consider my career to be relatively safe. However, this is all the more reason for me not to become complacent or overconfident given the current run of harsh economic troubles.

We face a future that expects an enormous increase in the numbers of retirees, chronically ill patients and with them increased medical costs unless something is done to stem the tide of this financial mess.

More medical workers will be needed (and I'm not talking about just nurses and doctors). Medical technicians and hands-on caregivers as I have been will be the most critically needed workforce in the future; but there is a lack of educators to train this new workforce and an even larger shortfall in the pay that is needed to fund programs for schools to hold these courses.

What I've read about mostly is how investing money in the infrastructure of our roads and is a good idea to create jobs and grow the blue-collar sectors. I agree with this given the number of road, bridge and rail projects that have been drawn-up, approved and are simply awaiting the funding to move forward. What's missing are the programs to start and teach the trades that will increase American's workforces and provide a new stimulus to the economic system of our nation.

This is a concern I share with you, Will. Paid moderators would be difficult and costly. Like most everything that's experimental , a trial tends to discover equal parts problems and solutions.

I'd say this is a reasonable progression from the anonymity that could exist on MyBO.

Many of the commentators here and from MyBO are regular bloggers or comment-makers on numerous other sites.

Perhaps the team would consider creating a group of free-lance Moderators to help stem the tide of trolls, spammers and sock-puppets?

It is very reassuring to see that the transition team is building so well upon the successes and comments from the campaign.

Kudos to you all in Chicago and abroad. Let's get the ideas flowing.

JenniferG is correct. You can even add to the list of other "social" programs already enacted within in the U.S.: The VA Administration, Medicaid, SCHIP, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), TRICARE, EMTALA, the Indian Health Service, and more.

Please, define what you consider to be a "socialist health care system".

Please help me to understand your concern a little more clearly. What would you define as or what constitutes a "socialist healthcare system". Then write what about those aspects of such a system would bring about the ruination of this country.