Step #6  Social Programs & Enterprise

GO to:  Community
GO to:  Education
GO to:  Environment
GO to:  Financial Institutes
GO to:  Medical
GO to:  Military
GO to:  Social Services Program
GO to:  Technology


Problem:

The problem occurs because we do not understand it. We do not recognize the tools we have to solve the problems. We presently lack the wherewithal to properly use those tools even if we do recognize them.



Solution:

Understand and properly identify the problems. Assess the tool situation. Learn how to properly use the tools available.



Currently:

We now have all the tools needed to construct the best social services and enterprise package this world has seen or likely to see for many years. We have proof that all these tools work very well in the hands of skilled persons. We also know that the destructive power of these tools is enormous when left in the hands of those who might abuse them.



Proposed Plan of Action:

Identify and understand the tools: which are, Education, Medical, Technology, Environment, Financial, Community, and Military.


1) Education: 

The United States has the overall best system to educate our population. 

Teach a person a single topic and you have to keep teaching them. Teach a person how to learn and you teach them for life.

We unfortunately, anchor ourselves in merely teaching subject matter. Education is simply the most important element in society. It is never about how much knowledge a person can obtain; but what one does with the knowledge that they do have.

Not every body needs to burden themselves with the cost of college education; because not every job needs it.

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2) Medical: 

We have more knowledge about our bodies today than ever before. Unfortunately, we have not lost the critical connection between the divisions of knowledge that make our bodies whole.

The old-time "house-call" doctors went right to where most medical problems start, the house. The doctor could identify living habits that cause the symptoms the patient complains about.

This in an area where our education falls short. People no longer have that working knowledge about their bodies, which is the first step in preventative care. 

With basic knowledge, an individual can reduce their medical cost to just a few hundred dollars annually. Correct the cause of the problem and the cost of medicine drops to manageable levels.

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3) Technology: 

Technology is one of societies commodities. The inventors of socially and environmental patents should be rewarded.  Certain technologies that society relies heavily on should become public domain to some degree to avoid having important technology sit on shelves collecting dust.

Military technology, with civilian applications should be made use of.

Technology is another element built on education.

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4) Environment: 

Purely as a survival measure, we need to understand our environment, so we no not repeat the hazards of our ancestors. This is another element relying heavily on education.

Nature provides all the information we need, if we might only read her pages more, and use our technology to lend her a helping hand.

Sometimes we have to manipulate the environment, other times we have to adapt to it in order to survive, which links back to our preventative and curative medicine.

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5) Community: 

What we no have are merely people who live in close proximity. Real communities, where neighbors miles apart used to know each other are few and getting rarer.

With a financial connection, when money stays local, the People have more control of what enterprise sets up shop in their town. 

The People of a community should jointly retain 51% of the voting control of each business in town with the business owner managing the day to day activities and the community reserving the rights to audit the business for environmental, social, or other un wanted abuses. The control by the community over the enterprise proportional to the vote of the People. Example, if 25% of the community votes with the business owner, the business owner has the majority. The community has to be nearly unanimously against the business owner's plans in order for them to alter the business.

Community 51% control of businesses allows community to control whether business can just pack up and leave or whether the community might decide to take over ownership of the enterprise to keep the jobs local.

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6) Financial: 

Financial tools exist within our banking industry. Another tool presently being abused through mismanagement and government bail-outs, which comments on our failing education where addition and subtraction no longer exist. 

All lending should remain localized so the lender cannot sell the loans they made. The original lender remains liable for any and all debt that goes bad. You make bad loans, you go out of business. You make bad loans, you become a banking liability. 

On of the other financial tool in government is taxation. When all is run well, taxation should be the last resort to funding public programs. With taxation, when required, should be equitably distributed (such as, flat-rate income tax and sales tax so that each pays proportionally to their income or purchases).

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7) Military:

The United States Armed Forces are the greatest, most under utilized, asset in the United States.

Much of the military practice is "dry-run" wasted. It serves no purpose other than honing skills. Which is a good thing.

What with all the frequently occurring "battle-type simulations" in our country; such as natural disasters, highway accidents, and the like; our military pilots, doctors, and infantry can get more than enough practice by providing the very services to the People who pay their wages. 

The military resource go a long way in reducing the over all cost of a national health care program; as well as, being one of the criminal punishments of involuntary servitude for low-level criminal activity that carries one year or longer sentences. 

The military also connects the socially beneficial technology, with education, and providing natural disaster relief.