Social Service Stimulus
This part of the package is aimed at increasing the number of workers in the field of social services. Again, money will be funneled into scholarships and school programs that focus on social work, i.e. school councilors, drug and alcohol abuse councilors, child protective services workers, prisoner rehabilitation specialists and so on. Like the healthcare stimulus the ultimate goal is to get services to everyone who needs them. Feeling unusually down at school, there are always school councilors available. Experienced a period of rage aimed at your child last night, a councilor at your hospital takes walk-ins.
There are currently too many forgotten people in our country. They are the addicts, the homeless, the hungry, the hopeless, sometimes the lazy and the mentally ill and more often than not they end up costing the country a lot of money. Since they have no insurance they use emergency rooms for healthcare, they end up in jail, they live off of disability payments and welfare but most vexing it is these forgotten who become criminals. It’s the lady with untreated schizophrenia that stabs a stranger in downtown Sacramento , the hopeless and depressed teen who takes a gun to school and kills 4 classmates and so on. By reaching out and helping the lost instead of following our current course of inaction, it’s my hope that we can save money and save lives.
Up next…Education Stimulus
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Social Stimulus Interruption
Taking a quick break from Will’s Social Stimulus Plan, to ask a question about gun owners.
I’ve been cruising the conspiracy theory site Above Top Secret for awhile and the gun rights advocates there have got me thinking.
The site is filled with very vocal gun owners who are radically opposed to any type of gun control. Any political thread introduced to the site, be it about the economy or congress, is fair game for the Second Amendment to be brought up. And lately it has been brought up a lot, with New World Order, One World Government, Obama the Socialist theorists frantically posting about any perceived threat.
I’d blame it all on site members but I’ve seen the same anti-regulation vigor in numerous other places. Most famous would be the late Charlton Heston’s proclamation that he’d only relinquish his gun after he was dead.
What is it about guns that inspires such passion in some Americans?
That brings me to another question which delves slightly deeper into the one above, what is it about gun ownership that has caused it to become so intrinsically linked to being American and to the freedoms that we are guaranteed?
I’ve been cruising the conspiracy theory site Above Top Secret for awhile and the gun rights advocates there have got me thinking.
The site is filled with very vocal gun owners who are radically opposed to any type of gun control. Any political thread introduced to the site, be it about the economy or congress, is fair game for the Second Amendment to be brought up. And lately it has been brought up a lot, with New World Order, One World Government, Obama the Socialist theorists frantically posting about any perceived threat.
I’d blame it all on site members but I’ve seen the same anti-regulation vigor in numerous other places. Most famous would be the late Charlton Heston’s proclamation that he’d only relinquish his gun after he was dead.
What is it about guns that inspires such passion in some Americans?
That brings me to another question which delves slightly deeper into the one above, what is it about gun ownership that has caused it to become so intrinsically linked to being American and to the freedoms that we are guaranteed?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Social Stimulus
Recently the government has thrown a lot of money at our collapsing financial institutions. Right or wrong, I can’t say, as the problem is just too big for me to grasp in any real sort of understanding. They say without the money our business infrastructure will collapse, but I can’t help but feel that by propping it up we’re keeping an innately flawed system in business.
Anyway, in thinking about all the money flying around I couldn’t help but question where else it could be used. Hence, I’d like to introduce the Will's Social Stimulus Package!
Here’s how it works, money we dumped in banks and lending institutions will instead be used on people. This social spending will ultimately result in a better educated and more responsible populace and a more stable economy that is based in social service and not irresponsible consumption.
We begin the package with a focus on healthcare, starting with more doctors and nurses. Money will be funneled into medical schools and scholarships for students pursuing careers in the world of healthcare. Students will be encouraged to intern in neighborhood clinics, schools and social service centers. The ultimate goal of this package is having enough doctors and nurses that anyone in need of medical attention is able to get it at a variety of different locales. Public schools will have a nurse on duty at all times, if a workplace has over 200 people at a site they’ll be encouraged to have a doctor or nurse visit once a month or even more often and grocery stores and drug stores that have clinics will see some kind tax incentive.
I’m convinced that this healthcare stimulus will also lower healthcare costs by providing more supply thus meeting all the demand. Sure, drugs and treatment will still be expensive but not as much so because we’ll have eliminated examples like this which increase everyone’s insurance premiums.
Up next…Social Service Stimulus
Anyway, in thinking about all the money flying around I couldn’t help but question where else it could be used. Hence, I’d like to introduce the Will's Social Stimulus Package!
Here’s how it works, money we dumped in banks and lending institutions will instead be used on people. This social spending will ultimately result in a better educated and more responsible populace and a more stable economy that is based in social service and not irresponsible consumption.
We begin the package with a focus on healthcare, starting with more doctors and nurses. Money will be funneled into medical schools and scholarships for students pursuing careers in the world of healthcare. Students will be encouraged to intern in neighborhood clinics, schools and social service centers. The ultimate goal of this package is having enough doctors and nurses that anyone in need of medical attention is able to get it at a variety of different locales. Public schools will have a nurse on duty at all times, if a workplace has over 200 people at a site they’ll be encouraged to have a doctor or nurse visit once a month or even more often and grocery stores and drug stores that have clinics will see some kind tax incentive.
I’m convinced that this healthcare stimulus will also lower healthcare costs by providing more supply thus meeting all the demand. Sure, drugs and treatment will still be expensive but not as much so because we’ll have eliminated examples like this which increase everyone’s insurance premiums.
Up next…Social Service Stimulus
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