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A tiny bit more information here: https://www.greatagain.gov/serve-america.html

"If Senate confirmation is required for the position you are nominated for, the Senate committee that reviews those nominations may ask you to provide additional information."

Apparently if you want one of the following positions, you start by filling out a form on a website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_pr...

If you were an executive, this is how you would hire people, right? (Instead of only tapping people that you already know.)

It'd be really interesting to read all the free-response messages eventually or see a word-cloud like representation of themes.

We'll see if my desire to use RICO to knock down the RIAA & LiveNation power consolidation a few pegs gets any traction.

What does "PTT" stand for on "ptt.gov"?

Entirely a guess, presidential transition team?

Is this site actually affiliated with Donald Trump or is it just something some random person put up?

edit: I suppose the .gov domain makes it look legitimate, but I was hoping for some further word of explanation.

The US General Services Administration owns that domain, according to web-based WHOIS on nic.gov. The .gov domain name is exclusively used by the US government.

Agency : General Services Administration Organization : GSA Domain Name : PTT.GOV Status : ACTIVE

$ jwhois ptt.gov [Querying whois.nic.gov] [whois.nic.gov] % DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready Domain Name: PTT.GOV Status: ACTIVE

>>> Last update of whois database: 2016-11-18T21:36:22Z <<< Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois server at RS.INTERNIC.NET.

> The .gov domain name is exclusively used by the US government.

Not directly:

http://www.ca.gov/ https://www.bart.gov/

(and many other entities at government levels other than Federal)

.gov used to have broader rules and there are a lot of grandfathered domains.

It's quite real. It's how you apply for a job in the new administration. The President gets to appoint about 4,000 people at the top of the Government. It's hard to find people for undersecretary level jobs - they pay about $165,000, and anyone qualified for them can probably do better elsewhere.

Incidentally, if you look at the page source, it's Salesforce code.

The "apply for a job" link[1] is a different form than the "tell us your story" link[2]. (Which isn't to say that you aren't correct; the incoming Trump administration may be using the form as a tool to identify "idea people" for the many roles they need to fill.)

[1] https://apply.ptt.gov/ [2] https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstory/

This page is linked to from:

https://www.greatagain.gov/

I assume that is how people found it in the first place.

Can't tell if this is legitimate or not... but either way I wouldn't submit anything - it's probably just a ploy so that your email is added to his database...

You can just use https://www.mailinator.com/

I submitted the following:

"I would Make America Great Again by forcing the medical monopolies to break up, by prosecuting them under 15 USC (the Sherman, Clayton, and Robinson-Patman Acts), which the President can direct to be done on his own, without input from Congress. This would cause prices of medical goods and services to drop by 50-80% or more, solve many of our economic problems, and usher in a new era of prosperity. See the writings of Karl Denninger for details, www.market-ticker.org."

If we don't do this, and if it isn't done within a year, the Federal Budget and economy are headed for collapse. See: https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231661

Exactly what medical monopolies are you referring to? Hospitals, insurance companies and drug companies are pretty fragmented markets which is one of the reasons for the complexity of US healthcare and high costs.

From the link provided by gp, they may be referring to Medicaid and Medicare, though it's not at all clear to me from that page either.

Insurance companies are often I regional oligopolies, hospitals similarly and in some cases regional monopolies, and drug companies (like anything IP-dependent, particularly patent-dependent) are straight-out state-granted monopolies.

What do you mean by "monopoly" exactly? It's a vague term both legally and in vernacular. Which medical monopolies are you referring to? Every facet of healthcare in the US can be seen as monopolized. AMA license requirements for doctors are a monopoly... Insurance is monopolized by regulatory compliance... Drug research is monopolized by patents. Are you talking about insurance companies? Healthcare providers? Drug manufacturers? The whole bunch?

Couldn't Government center "Supposedly Central Head Logo" and "Supposedly Central Submission Field"? It is very simple CSS and it is painful to watch.

How does this relate to the topic of the site

I would consider Obama's "we the people" online petition tool to be relevant to this site (even if individual petitions might not be).

If Trump is setting up something similar, why wouldn't it be on-topic?

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