What Do The American People Want?
As we mentioned yesterday in our Inauguration 2009 post, the Citizen Briefing Book on the Change.gov site closed to comments from the public at 6pm ET today. According to Michael Strautmanis, Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama Biden Transition Team, the CBB has had "unbelievable response" with over 70,000 people submitting ideas and voting on others.
So what are the concerns of the American people? Well it turns out that the hot topics include gambling, patriotism, religion, health, taxes, transport, environment and drugs. We've listed the top ten below with excerpts; follow the links to the read the entire posts.
10. Boost America's Economy with Legal Online Poker: 46720 votes/1711 comments
"Let online poker players in the United States play legally and without fear of prosecution. Boost the economy by letting American companies and Ameican players make money and pay taxes instead of sending online poker businesses offshore."
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