I posted at GD and GDP and already unrecommended...

[OneGrassRoot]

Everyone wants to fight right over there now -- seems that's all they really want to do -- so I thought you guys might have an interest in this positive email, an invitation to do something productive...at least the potential to be able to participate and do something productive, if we still believe. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7124082

I'm going to keep kicking it though, just to be a PITA. :)


Email just received from Valerie Jarrett:



On Thursday, President Obama is hosting a discussion at the White House to explore every possible avenue for job creation. Small business owners, CEOs, economists, financial experts, and nonprofit groups, as well as Americans who have felt the impact of this economic crisis firsthand, will be there to share ideas.

But you don’t need to be here on Thursday to participate. You can join the discussion by organizing your own jobs forum with your family, friends, and co-workers -- because these conversations can take place in living rooms and conference tables, not just arenas and convention centers.

We’re looking for community leaders like you from all across the country to host discussions from now until December 13th. Your community jobs forum will be a source of insights and ideas that will inform the President’s approach to job creation.

To get started, let us know you’re interested, and we'll send you information that may help you organize a successful jobs forum in your community:

Get Started

In the coming days, we’ll follow up with discussion questions and other materials to help make your event as productive as possible. We’re not able to offer an events center where anyone can find events already happening, so if you haven’t heard of one in your area, start your own and reach out to your network for participants.

After the event, we’ll provide a simple online tool for you to submit job creation ideas and thoughts. Back here at the White House, we’ll compile your feedback and send it to the Oval Office for review.

With all of us working together, we’ll get America working again. Get started organizing a jobs forum in your community today.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Valerie

Valerie Jarrett
Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/24/host-a-commun...


:)

[mother earth]

1. How about we put some lawyers and prisons to work with

tackling the criminals who just left office and make them accountable?

How about we put the fleecing insurance co's and big pharma on ice while real health care is what we focus on so that some of that profit can go into building a system focused on healing as opposed to pilfering and bankrupting average Americans that get sick?

How about people organizing their own health care organizations?

How about stopping the tax cuts to corporations that outsource our jobs to third world countries with no labor or environmental laws?

Hell, I could keep going and going...I'm just getting warmed up. Make the bailed out bankers and Wall Stree pay back what they robbed? Audit the fed & put accountants to work and again, prisons...hmmm...I mean...really, it's just more BS. Our gov't knows what we need, what we want, but what we get is tied to our lack of campaign finance reform...

Sorry, OneGrassRoot, don't mean to rain on your parade. I'm on a short fuse tonight & I should just sign off. We need jobs, alright, we'll be lucky to get the infrastructure rebuilding ones, I'm thinking it's the only area we might see focused on any time soon, but then again can we afford it with more war? The war is the funnel sucking everything else away.

[get the red out]

2. You are right

Now is the time for positive. DU has become a cesspool of negativity. I can't deal with wading into the general discussion at all now. I get pulled in all too easily.

Looking a positive things is not forbidden. I will pray that we can see this. It is not necessary to be filled with nothing but rage, that's exactly what the darkness seeks.