Archive for February 8th, 2010
Seems to me that our “leaders” in Washington DC are enjoying playing games with us and the future of the United States. Here are some ideas that would accomplish what we want and guess what – they sure don’t cost too much.
Healthcare
1 – Cross State Border Health Care – Set it up similar to the Auto Insurance companies. With the increase in competition it is only logical that the costs will drop. This allows more people to purchase health insurance.
2 – Stop the Drug company Television ads. Have you seen them? Listen to the damages that drugs do. An example: To stop itching take this pill. Side effects are ulcers, high blood pressure, blindness and possibly death. Isn’t that a stupid thing? Let the doctors take care of medicines, NOT the drug companies. No TV ads, prices drop. Prices drop and more of the good medicine will be more available to more people.
3 – Put a cap on malpractice awards. This will cut the amount doctors must pay for insurance thereby reducing the cost to visit a doctor making more doctors available to help more people.
4 – Put more “checks and balances” into the federally run, and state run, medical services to eliminate fraud. Not enough is being done to accomplish that. Reduce the fraud and the costs will be reduced. Costs are reduced and more people can afford it.
Job Creation
1 – NO ILLEGALS working in our country. Get those jobs to the citizens of the United States. Wow, Job Creation!
2 – STOP importing foreigners to take the jobs of the citizens of the United States.
Wow, Job Creation!
3 – STOP companies from outsourcing American Jobs to foreign countries. What the heck? Make a call for tech support or for other purposes and you will probably spend ½ of your time asking the person to repeat what they say anyway. Stop Outsourcing and guess what – JOB CREATION!
4 – DON’T tax the people that have the money to expand their business and hire people. JOB CREATION!
Economy
1 – You will like this one! This one item could reduce the federal budget, the budget of every state, the budget of thousands of companies and the budget of healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. MAKE ENGLISH OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE and stop all of the requirements for duplicate forms, booklets, letters, instructions and what else? This alone will cut billions of dollars from the combined companies, states and so on. Oh, it would also eliminate the very annoying Press 1 for English messages. If people are living in the United States of American they MUST be able to speak English.
2 – DRILL FOR OUR OIL – China is taking our oil why don’t WE take it instead? That would save about $750 billion annually by cutting our dependence on Foreign Oil. It would also increase Jobs.
3 – USE COAL – With the technology we have available today coal burns much cleaner than most people realize. Cuts dependence on Foreign Oil and increases Jobs.
4 – STOP FUNDING COUNTRIES THAT DON’T LIKE US – What’s up with that? We send money to countries that thank us by bombing our embassies, military ship and OUR country. Reroute that money to improve our border security, port security and airport security.
Do you realize that everything above COSTS ZERO DOLLARS, Nada, Nichts, Rien, Niets, Niente, 没什么, 沒什麼. Doesn’t that look dumb?
If you look closely a good number of the points sorta go across the lines. Increasing jobs will always help the economy. Helping the economy helps reduce the deficit. Spending money here, instead of abroad, to buy oil also helps reduce the deficit. There is probably more but I am just a dumb kid from Long Island.
And that’s my view.
Were you aware that as of the time I am writing this there are about 1.5 people in the United States Military? Were you aware that there are about 28 million veterans? If we all spoke with one voice that would be about the largest single voice in this country. So, why don’t we?
Is it because we don’t agree on everything? Now that’s dumb! When we were trained and when we served we ALL were trained to work together as a team and to think alike. Well, thoughts change as we continue to grow. But, I’ll bet there are common thoughts like this one:
We all swore to protect our constitution, our flag and our country. So why are we letting people enter our country ILLEGALLY?
Most Veterans I have spoken with agree that the borders and the security of our nation must be a high priority no matter who the President is. We must all speak out and keep the Federal Government on the Correct course or our service time was WASTED.
And that’s my view.
Since I joined the VFW in 1993 I have sought to help with fund raising. Since Jackie and I were married, in 1997, we have both sought out non-profits with good reputations doing good things and have tried to help them raise needed funds.
I don’t normally think “in the box” so my ideas are not totally understood by the groups we approach. It’s like they just don’t get it! The program being presented is one in which the non-profit is not just holding out their hand asking for money. It is also not one that will raise $500 baking cakes or other similar type of events.
I propose a way to bring in tens of thousands of dollars, annually, simply by offering something for free that will help the members and supporters (and anyone they see) save money and earn money. The program will also increase the NP’s supporter base because of that dollar savings for the supporters.
If you are a non-profit looking to raise funds with a minimum of time and effort or if you know of such please contact us or have them contact us.
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Thanks for reading.