President Obama will announce Monday that former Secret Service agent Earl Devaney will be the Stimulus Czar. Devaney is most notably known for exposing lobbyists' coorruption at the Interior Department. Devaney's official task will be to chair the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, with Vice President Joe Biden coordinating oversight o the stimulus spending.
Change you can believe in.
By nominating the former inspector general who turned in lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the Obama team is sending the signal that they mean business with tracking every penny.
Crooks and liars, be aware.


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Please stop buying into this smoke- screen of accoutability. It's all a big con- job.
February 20, 2009 04:38 PM EST
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Job Suggestion for: The President of The United States
LOCAL JOBS AVAILABLE SOON
I wish to suggest a project that may put unemployed men and women back to paid work at once. The money paid to fight fires, and repair the damage, can be used to start a fire elimination program through out the nation. A program for men and women of all ages that are able to work outside on light work or inside managing the project. It is also an anti-crime program that removes the unemployed from the streets and places them in a controlled work program that provides a wage.
The unemployed workers can be bused to and from their homes to provide a day's work in removing area fire hazards. Local and state funds can be used at start until the recovery funds are available. Each city can begin work from their center and work out in a circle until they reach another group from a neighboring area. They can then set up a joint program to reach longer distant areas.
This work is healthy outside work that will make our workers more fit for the future and the need to operate heavy equipment and other vehicles will provide a on-the job training program provided by using the skilled unemployed as the instructors. The out come of this program is more valuable workers for the large school, road, and related projects planned for the future.
The clearing program is temporary but keeps the unemployed ready for industry work when they begin to rehire. The plan is to make this a feed program of better trained workers as industry and construction can use them. A hiring program will be busy placing the workers into permanent jobs they can fill so when the clearing work is nearly finished, the workers are mostly on industry jobs with long time employment.
This letter is just a brief on how a simple program can help solve a very large problem. I would be willing to discuss this in depth with anyone that wants more information to put things into action. :http//www.disastermanager@comcast.net.
In your service,
Gordon L. Swanson, PE
Retired Engineering and Construction Manager, Author, Inventor, with a successful career as an innovative solver of problem projects.