Adrian

I love this new job!  President Elect. Obama will announce a new job,  a Chief Performance Officer (CPO). This is a new position designed to combat waste and improve efficiency.

The new Chief Performance Officer, will report directly to the President and head a "SWAT" team "composed of top-performing and highly paid government professionals" to work with agency heads and the White House's Office of Management and Budget to make the government less wasteful and more efficient.

What a great idea..a (CPO),  I can't wait to see this.  The President Elect said that, the country not only has a deficit in 'Dollars'  but  a deficit in 'accountability and judgement'

Ohh...on a side-note, remember Joe-the-Plumber?!  Yes, that guy!  Well, he is headed to Israel as a War Correspondent to cover the Police-Action on the Gaza strip for 'PJTV' (conservative media outlet Pajamas TV...www.pjtv.com/)...what?!..that's what I said!!!

Our great country provides opportunity for everyone to serve in some fashion!

    God speed Joe..

  From the website: http://change.gov/

  "As a new year begins, many Americans are reflecting on 2008 while looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities we’ll face  in 2009.

The past year brought change to our country. Millions of Americans participated in our political process for the first time. Folks came together to work for common goals, and the bonds of citizenship grew stronger in cities and towns across the country.

But alongside these accomplishments, many Americans also faced tremendous economic hardship.

Too many families are dealing with the strain and loss stemming from this financial crisis. In 2009, our nation must come together to forge solutions to the challenges we face."

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!


 

It's been a very interesting year.  A year of challenges and personal growth, and as we look forward to the New Year 2009'  I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a bright prosperous New Year.  Let us remember the real reason for this wonderful season.:-)

                        MERRY CHRISTMAS!


 

The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:

1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13.

2. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

3. "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." — former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10.

4. "It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number." — a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23.

5. "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." — McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17.

6. "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." — the Treasury Department's proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, September 2008.

7. "Maybe 100." — McCain, discussing in a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3.

8. "I'll see you at the debates, b------." — Paris Hilton in a video responding to a McCain television campaign ad, August 2008.

9. "Barack, he's talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his ... off." — Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone before a Fox News interview, July 6.

10. (tie) "Cash for trash." — Paul Krugman discussing the financial bailout, New York Times, Sept. 22.

10. (tie) "There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises." — Krugman, in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time," broadcast Sept. 19.

10. (tie) "Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one — especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his own private definition of "`recession.'" — commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14.