Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation's first CTO. What are the top priorities?
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1 votes
No-fault insurance and workers' comp. insurance your doctor
I could not use my own doctors whom I treated with for eighter of these insurance coverage. Why becasue they harrassed, insult and challeged medical care needs or should I say don't approve them. As a result from a slip and fall I developed RSD due to lack of early requested treatment. I am suffering everyday now when this could have been prevented in the early stage of offset.
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1 votes
100% disabled veterans and spouse excempt property tax
The federal veterans administration has it written that the home must be in the name of the veteran. There are situations in second marriages where the home is in the spouse's name. These veteran's are not getting the property excemption in Florida. And the care-giving wife will not even get the excemption after the husband dies. This needs to be changed . Don't you think this is unfair.
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3 votes
Spend US infrastructure $$ on a National Railway
President Lincoln used the building of the Transcontinental Railroad to unite the nation during the Civil War. Eisenhower gave us the Interstate system after the WII. A National Light Rail System would not only bring the country together, but provide much needed jobs.
Rail travel is so much less stressful than driving in traffice or flying with today's security protocols.
We need better public transit. With a growing population, skyrocketing oil prices, and balooning urban centers that are more and more separated from 'bedroom districts', we need an alternative to the congested highway system. Current rail systems (Amtrak) gives too much right of way to commercial rail. We need a rider-dedicated system.
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3 votes
larger trashcans on the national mall for the inaguration
The trashcans on the National Mall have got to be the smallest I have ever seen in a National Monument. At the end of the day, trash cans are literally overflowing with garbage. After the 4th of July, the Mall is littered with trash. How embarrassing for our Nation's Capitol. We need larger trashcans on the National Mall.
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3 votes
Menchi
Cute, but may also be used as an emergency food supply in an economic crisis.
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3 votes
Provide an open forum to all government technical employees
Open the floor for all technical employees at all levels of government. Providing an open electronic forum can revolutionize the way technical problem solving and thinking is done at every level. It might also prevent costly mistakes or ineffective purchases.
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17 votes
Protect privacy online, and across databases
Privacy means the right against unsanctioned invasion of privacy by the government, corporations or individuals, and should be protected with laws.
Personal details of any kind, including medical, financial, or political information should be accessed, communicated and traded with utmost discretion to avoid fraud and identity theft, government surveillance, and corporate exploitation.
As technology has advanced, the way in which privacy is protected and violated has changed with it. Generally the increased ability to gather and send information has had negative implications for retaining privacy.
This is the time to enhance existing privacy protections!
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy and read the book Code by Lessig ("individuals should be able to control information about themselves").
