We need someone at the top to help us guide all our competing interests regarding climate change, energy, our stewardship of mother earth, and someone who will look at our policies and our processes and identify those that do not have our citizens interests at heart and get rid of them.  Someone who has the vision and the leadership and the ear of the president. 

We so desperately need to change how we do things and so far in this transition I have not heard word one about this planet we live on or word one about us. I hear about policy and departments and the economy and businesses to big to fail. I hear about how to fix things, but we need to start again, not fix what is here -- like the auto industry. If the auto industry cannot make goods we want or need or that fit into our vision of the future, then the auto industry needs to die. And we need to transform those factories and the workforce into building things we do need - state of the art locomotives, wind turbines, processes for cleaner coal, the smart grid.

  I want to understand that all these individual actions and the individual people being hired will have a common vision -- one that will help us find the common ground of our humanity, our citizenship, our beneficial dependence on each other and this planet we live on. 

If we don't do this, we will just limp along, sniping at each other, letting corporations run amok some more, and ultimately we will not rise to the occasion, we will have wasted an opportunity.

Eating meat from animals that live in manure filled feedlots is not healthy. Supporting  a health care system that is really about disease and pharmaceuticals and not about health is not good for us and not good for the country. Continuing to subsidize the oil companies and not directing the use of those subsidies to sustainable processes and fuels is now unconscionable. Leaving campaign finance alone means that our lawmakers will stay enthralled to lobbyists and corporate america.

We need a federal highway system for energy -- electricity. It will require laws and policies and complex and boring statutes to be passed - nationally and locally. We need it. We need a space program for transportation. We need to enable innovation and science again. We need jobs, not handouts. We need to find a way to have an economy that is not based just on consumerism.

If we had one, or two, people who could work with the Chief Performance Officer and set the criteria by which we will measure success and have that criteria be people, planet, nation we might just do OK.