Ahmadinejad and Stephen Harper: Two sides of the same worthless coin
An amusing story appeared in the newspaper today about Stephen Harper making a statement that Canada would boycott the U.N. speech by Ahmadinejad. This must be some sort of comedy as Stephen Harper is no different from Ahmadinejad. Both are superstitious/religious people, both fear Science and reason, both are intolerant. The only difference seems to be their location on the planet. The fact that Ahmadinejad has a speech to give to the U.N. is proof enough that the United Nations is a joke that has no humour.
Canada must withdraw it’s membership with the United Nations.
Stephen Harper and Ahmadinejad are two sides of the same worthless coin. No value in anything they say.
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- HHEPS, a social movement -
HHEPS (Housing, Healthcare, Education, Public Safety)
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GENERAL FRAMEWORK
The current Government of the USA is quite small, in comparison with the Private Sector. The yearly budget of the Administration is just some $3 Trillion, while the annual Gross Domestic Product controlled by the Private Sector well exceeds $15 Trillion.
It is therefore evident that in its current structure the Government cannot influence production and distribution of essential goods and services, and cannot ensure adequate employment and human rights to the population.
The banking, mutual funds, and insurance systems are virtually bankrupt, and are creating an enormous negative burden on the shoulders of the working population.
The Government has failed, and has demonstrated itself unable or unwilling to provide all Citizens with adequate housing, basic healthcare, dignified eldercare, sufficient education, purposeful childcare, and necessary public safety.
HHEPS (Housing, Healthcare, Education, Public Safety) is not going to oppose in any manner the Government’s activities, or interfere in any form with the States’ operations. HHEPS is only going to add needed basic services to a population in distress.
HHEPS plans to create an alternative force in order to ensure that the basic human rights (namely Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Public Safety) are guaranteed to the People of the USA.
RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH HHEPS
The national reconstruction effort conducted by HHEPS will have to start with the Housing Industry, and then continue with the Healthcare Industry, the Education Industry, and finally the Public Safety Industry.
Guaranteeing adequate Housing to each Citizen would require an annual output from HHEPS of $3 trillion ($10,000 per person per year for 300 million people). It would, for instance, give a housing value of $40,000 to a family of four. It would be a gradual but constant effort consisting in taking over the Housing Industry, and guaranteeing jobs in housing development, construction, maintenance, rentals, furniture and appliance industries, utilities, etc., all centralized and regulated.
The next step of the reconstruction process would be to guarantee adequate Healthcare to each Citizen, which would require an annual output from HHEPS of $3 trillion ($10,000 on average per person per year for 300 million people). It would be a gradual and constant effort, consisting in taking over the Healthcare Industry, and guaranteeing jobs in hospitals, clinics, HMOs, laboratories, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, health insurance providers, etc., all centralized and regulated. Also the function of guaranteed Eldercare (for ages over 85) would be included in the healthcare industry.
The reconstruction would then continue with the Education Industry, guaranteeing free Education (including college, university, graduate and post-graduate studies) to each Citizen between ages 5 to 25, and free Childcare, kindergarten, and preschool before that. This Industry would require an annual output ffrom HHEPS of $3 trillion ($30,000 on average per student per year for 100 million youth). It would be a consistent effort gradually taking over all schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishing companies, etc., all centralized and regulated. Also the function of guaranteed Childcare including kindergarten and preschool (for ages 0 to 5) would be included in the Education Industry.
The reconstruction would then encompass also the Public Safety Industry, which will require a high degree of social maturity. The Public Safety Industry would include all Public Safety and Public Administration Services, including Treasury, police, courts, defense, military installations, border issues, diplomatic corps, security, surveillance, intelligence, postal service, delivery services, fire protection, insurance services, etc., all centralized and regulated.
Much of the workforce for the Public Safety Industry will come from the Citizens’ Public Service in the Public Forces, a program that would require each Citizen to serve 5 years, not necessarily consecutively, between the ages 25 to 75, in the Public Forces, at a Full Pay of $130,000 per year.
The Regulated Public Safety Industry will serve 300 million people for an estimated average service value of $13,000 per person per year. The Public Service of all Citizens in the Public Forces for 5 years between ages 25 and 75, totaling 15 Million people in service at any given time, will lead to an annual cost for the Treasury of some $2 trillion (the cost of $130,000 in annual salary for each enrolled Citizen) obtaining a value of service output measured at $3.9 trillion ($260,000 of measured annual value of output generated by each individual enrolled in Public Service).
FUNDAMENTAL INDUSTRIES
Each of the four Fundamental Industries (namely Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Public Safety) will employ 11.5 million people at an annual salary of $130,000 per person, corresponding to some $1.5 Trillion dollars per industry per year.
Every Citizen will receive free Housing (corresponding to an average value $10,000 per person per year), free Healthcare (average value of $10,000 per person per year), free Education between ages 5 to 25 (average value of $30,000 per person per year), and free Public Safety (average value of $13,000 per person per year).
Also free Childcare services (including kindergarten and pre-school) will be provided to all children under age 5 (average value of $30,000 per child per year - a service administered within the Education Industry), and free Eldercare services will be provided to all individuals over age 85 (at an average value of $30,000 per person per year - a service administered within the Healthcare Industry).
The services of the Fundamental Industries will not be provided by contractors in the Private Sector, but will be provided directly by the employees of the Fundamental Industries, employed at a Full Pay of $130,000 per employee per year, with an expected output in goods and services valued at $260,000 per employee per year, corresponding therefore to a factor of 2 (annual input $130,000 time a facto of 2 generates therefore an annual output value of $260,000 in goods and services).
An input-output factor of 2 will limit the exploitation of the workforce, exploitation that currently in the Private Sector reaches dangerously high factor levels of 5, and even 10, leading to work-related stress, alienation, depression, and child-neglect.
The services of the Fundamental Industries will be provided to all Citizens, who in exchange are going to pay a Flat Income Fee of 40%. No other taxes will be levied. The prospective rate of 40% is actually lower than the current tax rate in the USA, that altogether amounts to a total of some 45% (adding up 25% Federal Taxes, 5% State Taxes, 7.5% Payroll Taxes, and 7.5% Sales Taxes).
In addition, to ensure a rotation of authority and responsibility in the area of Public Safety, a Public Force will be established, where each Citizen will serve 5 years (not necessarily consecutively) at Full Pay in Public Service, covering the areas of Public Administration, Treasury, Public Representation, Court Services, Civil Defense, Diplomacy, Border Issues, in addition to basic services of Public Safety.
REPRESENTATION
Public Representatives will be nominated at the local level (neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, colleges, hospitals, etc.), and in turn those local representatives will nominate Public Representatives to Regional Committees and Caucuses, which in turn nominate further Representatives to Central Councils and National Conferences.
Each Nominated Representative can be recalled at any time by the same representative body that nominated that Representative.
A Production, Distribution, and Resource Allocation Plan will determine the required levels of production and distribution of goods and services, and resources will be allocated to the various Industries based on need and availability.
MONITORED INDUSTRIES
The Private Sector will comprise the Monitored Industries, which will be controlled in order to ensure that the levels of production and distribution are unfolding in accordance with available resources and the socially relevant and justifiable needs of all consumers.
All employees of the Monitored Industries of the Private Sector will also receive Full Pay, namely $130,000 per person per year, and their output will also be measured at a limit of a factor of 2 between input and output (an annual $130,000 salary input per employee will lead to an annual $260,000 production output per each employee), so as to prevent exploitation of the workforce.
The Monitored Industries will receive prioritization levels based on a classification of Productive and Non-Productive Industries, and Essential and Non-Essential Industries, under rules of social relevancy.
All schemes of Corporations, Shareholders, Limited Liability Companies, Limited Partnerships, Holdings, Trusts, Foundations, etc., limiting in any form or manner the responsibility of the managers, directors, and owners of the Enterprises will be abolished. Only physical individuals and general partners with full personal liability and responsibility will be granted Monitored authority to establish and maintain production and distribution enterprises and to utilize allocated Monitored resources.
Health insurance activities are placed within the frame of the Regulated Fundamental Industry of Healthcare. All other insurance activities are placed within the frame of the Regulated Fundamental Industry of Public Safety.
A new currency (“util”, symbol U), separate from the one used for repayment of debts, will be used to measure input and output of salaries and consumption. For instance, for each employee an annual input of U130,000 will correspond to an annual output of production valued at U260,000.
HHEPS
HHEPS (Housing, Healthcare, Education, Public Safety) is a broad social movement that provides free adequate Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Public Safety to all Citizens.
HHEPS emphasizes cooperation over competition, collaboration over aggression, inclusive action over exclusionary circles, planning over reaction.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive free adequate Housing, including furniture, appliances, and utilities.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive free adequate Healthcare, including medicine, dental, vision, hearing, preventative care, prenatal care, etc.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive Childcare, kindergarten, and preschool between ages 0 and 5.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive full Education between ages 5 and 25, including graduate and post-graduate studies.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive full adequate employment at Full Pay between ages 25 and 75.
HHEPS ensure the right of all Citizens to retire at age 75.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens receive free adequate Eldercare over age 85.
HHEPS ensures that all Citizens maintain their right and duty to nominate their representatives to higher bodies of representation, and that those same Representatives can be recalled at any time by the same constituency that nominated them
HHEPS requires 5 years of Public Service, not necessarily consecutively, in the Public Forces for Public Safety from each Citizen between the ages of 25 to 75, within the frame of the Public Safety Industry.
HHEPS requires a payment of a Flat Income Fee of 40% on all Full Pay from each Citizen to ensure that all human rights and social obligations are met, within the frame of the Treasury.
HOUSING
A Fundamental Industry, the Regulated Housing Industry would include all housing development, construction, maintenance, furniture and appliance industries, utilities, etc., all centralized and regulated.
A total of 11.5 million people would be employed altogether in the Housing Industry, at a salary of $130,000 per person, at a cost for the Treasury of $1.5 trillion per year (which is actually a much smaller figure than the bailouts). This scenario sets the output-input ratio at two to one: $260,000 value of annual output from each employed person, for $130,000 of annual wages paid to each employee.
HEALTHCARE
A Fundamental Industry, the Regulated Healthcare Industry would include all hospitals, clinics, HMOs, laboratories, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, health insurance providers, etc., all centralized and regulated. Also the function of guaranteed Eldercare is included in the Healthcare Industry.
So 11.5 million people would be in all employed in the Healthcare Industry, at an annual salary of $130,000 per person, at a cost for the Treasury of $1.5 trillion per year (again, a much smaller figure than the bailouts, which together totaled some $8 trillion). This scenario too sets the output-input ratio at two to one: $260,000 value of annual output per employee for $130,000 of annual salary.
Within the frame of the Healthcare Industry, the Regulated Eldercare Industry will serve 15 million people (ages over 85) for an average service value of $30,000 per person per year, and will employ 1.7 million people at a salary of $130,000 per person, with a production output value of $260,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $220 billion.
EDUCATION
A Fundamental Industry, the Regulated Education Industry would include all schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishing companies, etc., all centralized and regulated. Also the function of guaranteed Childcare (including kindergarten and preschool) is included in the Education Industry.
Some 11.5 million people would be employed in the Education Industry, at a salary of $130,000 per person per year, at a total cost for the Treasury of $1.5 trillion per year (a much smaller figure than the total bank/car bailouts). Also this scenario sets the output-input ratio at two to one: $260,000 value of annual measured output per person for $130,000 of annual salary input.
PUBLIC SAFETY
A Fundamental Industry, the Regulated Public Safety Industry would include all Public Safety and Public Administration Services, including Treasury, police, courts, defense, military installations, border issues, diplomatic corps, security, surveillance, intelligence, postal service, delivery services, fire protection, insurance services, etc., all centralized and regulated. Much of the workforce for the Public Safety Industry will come from the Citizens’ Public Service in the Public Forces.
The Regulated Public Safety Industry will serve 300 million people for an estimated average service value of $13,000 per person per year. The Public Service of all Citizens in the Public Forces for 5 years between ages 25 and 75, totaling 15 Million people in service at any given time, will lead to an annual cost for the Treasury of some $2 trillion (the cost of $130,000 in annual salary for each enrolled Citizen) obtaining a value of service output measured at $3.9 trillion ($260,000 of measured value of output generated by each individual enrolled in Public Service).
MONITORED INDUSTRIES
Monitored Industries will comprise all industries that provide goods and services not related to the Healthcare Industry, the Education Industry, the Housing Industry, or the Public Safety Industry: the Monitored Industries would include, e. g., food, clothing, distribution, information, entertainment, energy, communication, transportation, infrastructure, export, import, etc.
The Monitored Industries are not financed by the Treasury, but all the employees of the Monitored Industries are also entitled to receive Full Pay and are protected from exploitative practices (the output-input ratio of two to one would apply also to the Monitored Industries). All the Monitored Industries will be continuously reviewed and audited by the Treasury for compliance with plans, productivity, and compensation.
THE BUDGET
The Administration and Treasury of will have an effective budget with a significant positive impact on the People’s living conditions and standard of living, in the pursuit of equality and dignity for all under rules of logic and reason.
A total financial turnover of some $7 Trillion of the Fundamental Industries, providing all Citizens with adequate Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Public Safety, will create a heavy counterbalance and control over the Monitored Industries, which will keep generating commercial-like products and services for public consumption within the frame and assumptions set by the planned requirements and resources.
NEXT STEP
The Government has demonstrated repeatedly its incapacity and ineffectiveness in administering the Public Good.
It is the paramount interest of the People, on the basis of Public Reason and Social Logic, that the needs for the basic human rights of Housing, Healthcare (including Eldercare), Education (including Childcare), and Public Safety be met. These are issues on which we all can agree.
It is every Citizen’s interest and mandate to intervene without delays at the local level in order to nominate Representatives to higher representatives bodies and congresses in order to structure a comprehensive plan and implement its directives.
Get involved and initiate your local HHEPS workshops in your neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, colleges, hospitals, civic centers, church settings, evening meetings, in order to outline local needs, local resources, and local programs of accomplishment.
Together we can make it happen.
HHEPS (Housing, Healthcare, Education, Public Safety)
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You are welcome to enroll with your services in HHEPS.
Register yourself as a free Representative for HHEPS in your Postal ZIP code: there are no charges involved, and all participation is free and unconditional under rules of reason and logic.
You will nominate representatives from your local area for county, regional, and state HHEPS councils.
Separately, you will nominate independent Ombudspersons for “ombudsman” services at the county level with the function of protecting Citizens’ interests in the basic human rights areas of Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Public Safety.
This programmatic document remains a draft, that will receive constant improvement through your comments and suggestions. Your socially relevant suggestions will be integrated into the central leading documents.
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