I am fired up, and ready to go.

President-elect Barack Obama

I find this man so reassuring. I have a subscription to My Weekly Address from the President Elect and have been listening and staring deeply into his eyes and feeling better and getting ideas and wondering about life in America post 1.20.09.

Change is on the way, that is for damn sure.

December 5, 2008

This week President-elect Barack Obama addresses the job loss that our nation continues to endure and offers solutions to the challenges we face. For more information, visit http://change.gov.

The third part of his plan is what brought me to you, blog.

Third, my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen. We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.

The public elementary school in our town is in dire need of repair, and a group of dedicated people are working hard to secure funding for the remodel. This may be just the ticket!

Also what he said about 'use it or lose it'. I'd heard something on NPR about how that policy with the money - - to inject it in the economy pronto to arrest this downward spiral, is an important piece to ponder.

And this bit:

As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

It sort of startled me to hear this. Normally you hear about how parents are supposed to be afraid and wary of letting their child go "online". You know? But he's right. I wonder if a line or two about "now now, with parental involvement and safety controls we can keep our children safe from the ills of etc." lays on the cutting room floor of that speech. Very bold to just leave it at 'every child should have the chance to get online'...

also:

In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year.

Ain't that the truth?!!? I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the different meetings he's had with the folks at Google and whatnot. The IT area of the health industry is probably a very interesting piece of the whale to chew on, professionally speaking. All that data, all that work-flow and procedure and humanity.

DOT COM!