What Happens to Recovery.gov Email?
By: Jake | March 02, 2009 | Category: General
Last week I mentioned that the White House had created a website to get feedback on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. One commenter
asked if someone would actually read your email or if it would go into
a "black hole." If you send an email to
Recovery.gov you will be redirected to a web page that says:
"Thanks for contacting us. As we work towards economic recovery, we're counting on you to stay involved. Over the next few weeks and months, we'll be adding more and more information to Recovery.gov, so please check back often."
I asked someone who works on Recovery.gov what happens to the email people send. My contact there said people are reading the email submitted and it's their goal to respond to email submissions in the future. By the way, the White House website allows you to comment on other legislation like the DTV Delay Act of 2009 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Have you noticed the White House blog? I've been watching and it's updated multiple times a day, and White House personnel have even live blogged during the first Middle Class Task Force meeting and the President's trip to Canada (which included photos). There is no comment feature on the blog. I know from personal experience that comment maintenance can be time-consuming, but most blogs have this function. The White House may have plans to add a comment section and perhaps they don't have the personnel for maintenance yet. It will be interesting to see what they do.
If you send an email to the White House do you expect a response? Would you like to see the White House allow comments on the blog? Tell us what you want.
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Then, i though about another i deal on how i could come up with a more concrete way to explain how my ideal would help the school systems. One of my ideals was to put computers in the classroom, and limit the amount of stundents to 10 a classroom, just to name a few.
Computers in classrooms, not only will allow them to save money on school supplies, in which, that money that is not being spent on things such as paper, can be used for bonuses for teachers and raises. Computers in the classroom, will also create another tool of motivation. This tool can be used to get kids into comming to school and also prepare them for the world that is to come for the next generation. Just about every carreer out there requires atleast the basic knowledge of a computer. By putting computers in the classrooms starting from the 1st grade on up, will give the kids about 12 years of experience on a computer. Another benefit of computers in the classroom and limiting the the amount of stundents is that, stundents have less distraction and are able to recieve more attention for the teacher, who will also be able to recognize the learning traiths of each stundent and basically be abe to have more control of the classrooms.
Another one of my ideals was that more schools need to be built, lots of them. In order to limit every class down to 10 students a room, there has to be more schools built. Also another motivation tool that i thought of, seems sort of like bribery, but i seem it more as an allowance, is to reward stundents for good behavior, with money and gifts. My theory is that many kids have it embedded in their minds that they will never go to college, because either they cant afford it or it just isnt for them because their grades are to low. So what i feel should be a way to deter these kids of feelings would be to give stundents money depending on there grades. I figured they can set up a certain amount of money to be giving out in accord with the value of the grade. If the grades increase the money that they have in a trust fund or a cd that can also generate money by interest rates and can only be received if the stundents gets a high school diploma.
Now i wrote a paper on this in my thought book. But right now im just thinking this up. So im thinking say if a stundent maintians in an A in each class, and in one term, for every A the stundent gets 10$ and they have 7 classes. If they get an A in each of those classes, they will have a total of 70$ being added to an interest saving account. Also on the report cards next to there grades, it should be printed exactly how much money they have made and could have made. For instance, if they made a C which is earning 5$. On the card, encourage, by telling them to keep up the good job, and next time try for a B which is worth 8$ or the an A which is worth time and show them exactly how much the have earned and compare it to how much the could made.
This would also give them the sense of education being a valuable. They also should gave them gift cards for mid terms and final examines, such as for footlocker, toys r us, video games and other electronics like ipods. This will also be another tool of motivation and deemed by the stundents as an incentive for learning.
Also by putting this money in a saving accounts that gains interest and showing them how much interest their grades are earning them, gives them a sense of how saving money increases money or in other words gives them a sense of how to manage and make money or get them accustomed to the benefits of saving money.
Pretty soon everything is going to have to be processed by a computer. The mail service will go bankrupted, because people wont need to send bills or letters or notification because they end up sending them by email. Pretty soon there wont be a need for cashiers at the grocery stores because they have those computerized kiosk cashiers.
So to sum it all up putting computers in a classroom and giving this type of allowance based upon students grades and building lots of schools that will create lots of jobs and create a mainstream thats leads to higher education.
One of my main thoughts is that they need to cut out certains things which prevent stundents from learning. Things that we learn in school but never use it in everyday life.
So i thought i could send this to someone hoping they know someone in wichita falls txs who can give me a job
940-723-5663 faith mission
or handsomearies2001@yahoo.com
Comment Permalink | Post a New CommentThe Washington Post published and article about the challenges the White House people are facing. Check it out here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101745.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
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Comment Permalink | Post a New CommentHonestly I wouldn't have thought about posting something like this 6 months ago because only a few areas were pushing against all the restrictions to make new media a major part of government. The paradigm is shifting though. You may not see a lot of new media on government agency websites yet, but interest is blossoming. Our project manager for Gov Gab gets lots of calls and emails from other agencies about what we did to implement Gov Gab at GSA. I now I feel I can use my blog posts as a forum to help show other agencies what the public wants to hear about or what sort of policy input citizens might give.
The administrators of Recovery.gov, my contact included, know it's important to read and respond to citizen comments and emails, but they find themselves trying to weave their way through the government restrictions. They are working on a system to most effectively capture what's being said and to use it. They are trying to do it right, which unfortunately doesn't always go with doing it quickly.
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