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Save Award | The White House
Good morning,
I want to introduce you to a few federal employees who are serving our country every day, and who are thinking about ways to make sure your tax dollars aren't wasted.
Yesterday, President Obama announced the four finalists for the 2011 SAVE Award, an annual contest for federal employees to submit their ideas for cutting costs by making government more effective and efficient.
We need your help to determine this year's winner – help us choose who gets to discuss their idea with President Obama.
We need your help to determine this year's winner – help us choose who gets to discuss their idea with President Obama.
This year, nearly 20,000 ideas were submitted from federal employees across the country. There were a lot of great ideas, but in the end, these four really stood out:
- Matthew Ritsko, NASA: At Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA employees purchase specialized tools and ground support equipment for developing and building flight projects. Many of the tools are not tracked once projects are complete, and as a result funds are wasted on duplicative purchases. In order to cut down on repeat purchases, Matthew suggests creating a centralized tool repository – or "lending library" – where these tools can be stored, catalogued, and checked in and out by NASA employees.
- Eileen Hearty, Department of Housing and Urban Development: All across the country, HUD contractors and staff conduct annual Management and Occupancy Reviews of multifamily properties (i.e. apartments) that are privately-owned and subsidized by HUD. Many of these properties receive high marks year after year and consistently provide excellent service. Eileen proposes a reduction in the frequency of reviews for high-performing properties – a change that would reward superior properties for their excellent work and reduce the travel costs, staff time, and fees paid by HUD for these reviews.
- Kevin Korzeniewski, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: When Kevin began working as an attorney in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, he automatically received a new set of U.S. Code books that get updated and reordered every year. Because the information in these books is now available online through LexisNexis, Westlaw, and free sources – where it is also updated in real time – Kevin suggests that his agency stop automatically ordering these books.
- Faith Stanfield, Social Security Administration: Every quarter, the Social Security Administration (SSA) produces and mails OASIS, a 25-plus-page, glossy magazine to 88,000 SSA employees all across the country and more than 1,000 retired SSA employees. The OASIS magazine has been around for decades; however, as more and more SSA communications shift online, Faith suggests that the magazine be released only in an online format to save money on printing and shipping that could be put to better use elsewhere.
The SAVE Award is just one of many ways we're working to ensure that none of your hard-earned tax dollars go to waste. Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order instructing federal agencies to reduce spending by 20 percent on things like travel, cell phones, laptops and other devices that can be issued to employees, printing documents that can be posted online, and unnecessary plaques, mugs, water bottles, and other frivolous swag.
For three years now, federal employees from across the government have submitted their ideas to help streamline and modernize their departments and agencies. These are the folks who know the system best, people who have a genuine understanding of the nitty-gritty details.
All their ideas help to save taxpayers money and make sure the government better serves the American people. And this is a chance to make sure that each of them is recognized for their foresight and creativity.
But only one of them will get a chance to sit down with the President and present their proposal. And it's up to you to choose who that is.
Vote on the SAVE Award today:
All their ideas help to save taxpayers money and make sure the government better serves the American people. And this is a chance to make sure that each of them is recognized for their foresight and creativity.
But only one of them will get a chance to sit down with the President and present their proposal. And it's up to you to choose who that is.
Vote on the SAVE Award today:
Sincerely,
David Plouffe
Senior Advisor to the President
David Plouffe
Senior Advisor to the President
Barack Obama | Jobs for Veterans
Helmut --
Today, members of Congress will have two clear options to choose from: do something to create jobs for veterans returning from overseas, or do nothing.
When faced with the same choice for teachers, cops and firefighters recently, a group of senators not only opposed creating and savings jobs -- they blocked the proposals from even getting a simple up-or-down vote.
We'll find out today whether veterans are next.
In times of crisis, people in leadership positions either take action or they pretend there isn't a crisis at all. But when the timid and the cynical decide to block solutions, they can't be allowed to do it without consequences.
Help put pressure on Congress to pass the veterans part of the American Jobs Act by telling everyone you know about this vote:
Forward this email to your friends and speak up on Facebook and Twitter.
Forward this email to your friends and speak up on Facebook and Twitter.
A group of senators -- including every single Republican -- have so far dodged their responsibility to act, even when presented with proposals that they've supported in the past and have overwhelming support from ordinary Americans. Some have even openly endorsed a kamikaze political strategy of stopping any Obama proposal even at the expense of American jobs and middle-class security.
As a veteran myself, I know the plain, undeniable fact is that servicemen and women should never return home and find themselves struggling to make ends meet. And even though the economy is creating jobs, the unemployment rate for veterans is still more than 25 percent higher than the national average.
It's not right. We can do something about it. And we must.
The bill the Senate is voting on today would provide tax credits for companies that hire unemployed and disabled veterans and expand job training for those newly back from war. As we bring all troops home from Iraq, this measure -- fully paid for in a way that both parties have backed -- will be critical.
President Obama isn't waiting for Congress to take action. He's announced three new executive actions that will put veterans back to work through comprehensive career assessment and counseling services.
But President Obama can only do so much himself. Individual members of Congress have to make their choice and do their part.
From the very beginning, this campaign and this movement have fought for a fairer economy for middle-class families. That's what this vote is all about.
Keep the pressure on Congress by getting the word out about today's vote. You can do that in three ways:
1. Forward this email to family and friends.
2. Post on Facebook: http://my.barackobama.com/Veterans-FB-Share
3. Tweet: http://my.barackobama.com/Veterans-TW-Share
Thank you for speaking out for our veterans,
2. Post on Facebook: http://my.barackobama.com/Veterans-FB-Share
3. Tweet: http://my.barackobama.com/Veterans-TW-Share
Thank you for speaking out for our veterans,
Rob
Robert Diamond
Veterans and Military Families for Obama
Dienstag, 8. November 2011
Donate | Barack Obama | It's up to us
Helmut --
Today's Election Day -- so, for goodness' sake, if you haven't already and have the chance, go vote.
After you do, we need to turn our attention to the task in front of us -- because in exactly 52 weeks, the 2012 election will be over.
Think about all the work we'll need to do between now and then to make sure we re-elect President Obama -- knocking on doors, registering voters, opening offices, making calls. It's work that needs to be sustained over the course of the campaign, and it can't wait for next year, when more voters will start to pay attention to the race.
Today, I want to invite you to join a group of grassroots supporters who make regular donations to keep the campaign growing for the long haul.
Will you donate just 50 cents a day -- less than your daily cup of coffee -- for the rest of the election?
Yes, I'll chip in 50 cents a day.
Yes, I'll chip in 50 cents a day.
If you give now, your donation will be processed automatically on the same day each month. And you'll be invited to join Team 2012, our exclusive group of regular donors to the campaign who get special campaign updates and invitations to conference calls, so you can get details on how your contributions are being put to work.
Our team of monthly donors -- tens of thousands of people -- allows us to keep our eyes on the longer term to build our field operation aggressively in battlegrounds across the country, from the usual group of swing states to areas where we think we can compete for the first time in decades.
While groups on the other side, like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, are promising to spend hundreds of millions from anonymous donors just to defeat the President, this movement is absolutely clear about who's in the driver's seat. Our success has been built on the work of ordinary Americans willing to go the extra mile and do a little more.
That could mean pitching in an extra volunteer shift after work or inviting a friend to a phone bank. Or it might mean chipping in what you can afford to make sure the grassroots infrastructure is as strong as it can be.
We're expecting a heck of a fight over the next 52 weeks.
Say you'll be a part of that work each and every step of the way by donating 50 cents or more a day:
https://donate.barackobama.com/50-cents-a-Day
https://donate.barackobama.com/50-cents-a-Day
Thanks,
Rufus
Rufus Gifford
National Finance Director
Obama for America
Sonntag, 6. November 2011
Entscheidung über künftige "Wetten, dass..?"-Moderation fällt nach der Dezember-Ausgabe / ZDF-Programmdirektor bedauert Absage von Hape Kerkeling | ZDF
Mainz (ots) - Mit Bedauern, aber auch Verständnis hat ZDF-Programmdirektor Thomas Bellut auf die Absage von Hape Kerkeling reagiert.
Kerkeling habe das ZDF vorab über seine Entscheidung informiert, die er am Abend als Gast der "Wetten, dass..?" Sendung auch dem Publikum mitgeteilt hat.
Thomas Bellut: "Es ist schade, dass er das Angebot nicht annimmt, aber ich respektiere seine Entscheidung und ihre Begründung.
Wir haben uns im Übrigen für weitere Formen der Zusammenarbeit verabredet. Ich freue mich, dass er in wenigen Wochen die Sendung 'Menschen 2011' und Anfang Februar die 'Goldene Kamera' im ZDF moderiert. Wir sind auch im Gespräch über eine weitere Reportagereihe und andere Primetime-Projekte."
Im Übrigen bleibe es dabei, dass die Entscheidung über die Nachfolge erst nach der letzten von Thomas Gottschalk präsentierten Ausgabe fallen werde.
Auch werde es, so Bellut, definitiv eine Pause geben, in der die Redaktion gemeinsam mit dem neuen Moderator an einer Weiterentwicklung des Showformats arbeiten werde.
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