Even the die-hard McCain supporters can’t deny that Obama is at the helm.  That said, Obama has quite a challenge to build the consumer confidence necessary to help turn the economy back around and to do that he has to figure out how to please a number of different types of people.  Since Obama is such an avid reader of my blog, I’ll post my list of wants here so that he and everyone else can read them.

• Reform Health Care - figure out how to cut costs in health care.  My personal preference would be to create a national, government sponsored program.  The benefits of this have been discussed ad nauseum throughout the election. An alternative would be to just take over the dental system and establish about 2x as many dentists as exist today. Dentists should be easiser to access and I find it unacceptable that it takes a month to get an appointment.
• Invest in US Energy – Ideally, the administration will invest in the energy infrastructure for renewable resources. This would include source such as creating wind, hydro, and solar power as well as investing in the Auto industry but only for models that use renewable sources.
• Be Smart about Raising Taxes but Raise Them – US Citizens need to chip-in to help out the overall situation.  Lots of individuals at companies made bad judgements that led to our economy being in the dumps and US ingenuity will get us out of the dumps.  In the interim, we all need to chip-in appropriately.  We all know taxes will go up but Obama should take time to come up with the right policy. Capital gains will go up eventually I am sure but since nobody has any, it would likely be best to not knee-jerk and shoot them high.  Wait until third quarter to come up with a good plan. On corporate taxes, I would like to see corporate taxes lower to a point that businesses would come back to to the US and away from international sources.
• Take the money we feel the economy needs, take it all at once and give the public complete transparency.
• Spend about 1 day of your time and get us an NCAA Div 1 College Football Playoff!

Dana