Next Obama Reform: Fewer Blue-Ribbon Panels

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President Obama has eight years at the most as acting president, Then the next administration ether carries on his work or goes there own way.
So far I think he is on the right path but he needs to have more faith in the people and explain things better. But President Obama is thinking a little like President Roosevelt. And doing some of the same things, The big difference is President Obama only has a little over three years to make a difference before he is voted out of office or gets a second term. President Roosevelt held on for 4 terms and his vice President finished up with some of his own reforms. So all in all it took at least five terms to get out of the great depression. If you would like to debate my findings that would be fine My source is (http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt/) and (http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman/)
a lot of what these two men did for us was reversed which brought us to this depression that we are in. I like freedom, But what is freedom when you live in a society such as ours?.
It is following rules our society agrees on (I did not vote for the seatbelt law but I wear one)
Its respecting the rights of others (I am not a Mormon or catholic but I respect there right to exist)
The more people we get the more watch dogs we need because even though people are basically good we sometimes get lost and confused along the way and when that happens we need a civilized way to deal with the situation. However in this country we are also allow to congregate and discuss issues and form groups so we can keep an eye on the government ourselves but because of The American dream few has time for that kind of responsibility these days we are lucky to get people to vote.
Don D. Brock
White house response page http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Key Facts About The Great Depression http://students.umf.maine.edu/~nielsemj/thegreatdepression/d1.html
Public Broadcasting service http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/
MSNBC on Healthcare http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32898477/ns/health-health_care/

Don D. Brock of AZ 11:38PM September 20, 2009

Yes indeed.
In fact a more transparent system has to be set afoot soon enough lest some of its remaining flaws will be secretly inbreeding.

Jaap den Haan 5:57AM September 20, 2009

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ashlacarba of LA 7:36AM September 19, 2009

President Obama should not be afraid of bucking the financial instituitions lobbyists and dealing with toxic assets, derivatives and hedge funds. That should have gone ahead of health care regulation. Im am not impressed with his panel of so called financial experts: Volker, Timothy Geitner and Lawrence Summers. In my opinion someone not connected withWll Street should have been appointed Treasury Secretary, not Geintner. Until we regulate hedge funds and derivatives and make the Federal Reserve transparent, you're going to comntinue to see taxpayer money going down the drain.

Jack Golding of KS 4:57PM September 17, 2009