(Click title above)SOCIAL SAFETY NET:
We need better ideas for a Social Safety Net — one that encourages responsible social interaction, even as it discourages sloth, addiction, indecency, and incivility.
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Each of our perspectives exists as a separate, holographically figurative interpretation of the same shared Holism. We are Interconnected in that we experience conscious interpretations of aspects of the same Holism, which interpretations are different only in perspective. We are Separate in that, however we interpret, we are each conscious of a different perspective. Of Oneness, we are many in perspectives; of many perspectives, we derive in respect of an interconnecting Oneness. In respect of many independent individuals, we derive from one codependent community of interest. E Pluribus Unum.
Whether a Red Ass Moderate (Ram) finds himself on a volcano or on a social pyramid, his life entails a balancing art, and such balance easily falls to sloth, lack of attention, or addiction to locoweed, as when not disciplined or skilled in philosophy beyond science of immediate gratification.
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Snippets from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12brooks.html?em :
The Social Animal
David Brooks
September 11, 2008
If there’s a thread running through the gravest current concerns, it is that people lack a secure environment in which they can lead their lives. Wild swings in global capital and energy markets buffet family budgets. Nobody is sure the health care system will be there when they need it. National productivity gains don’t seem to alleviate economic anxiety. Inequality strains national cohesion. In many communities, social norms do not encourage academic achievement, decent values or family stability. These problems straining the social fabric aren’t directly addressed by maximizing individual freedom.
And yet locked in the old framework, the Republican Party’s knee-jerk response to many problems is: “Throw a voucher at it.” Schools are bad. Throw a voucher. Health care system’s a mess. Replace it with federally funded individual choice. Economic anxiety? Lower some tax rate.
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If Republicans are going to fully modernize, they’re probably going to have to follow the route the British Conservatives have already trod and project a conservatism that emphasizes society as well as individuals, security as well as freedom, a social revival and not just an economic one and the community as opposed to the state.
We need better ideas for a Social Safety Net — one that encourages responsible social interaction, even as it discourages sloth, addiction, indecency, and incivility.
***
Each of our perspectives exists as a separate, holographically figurative interpretation of the same shared Holism. We are Interconnected in that we experience conscious interpretations of aspects of the same Holism, which interpretations are different only in perspective. We are Separate in that, however we interpret, we are each conscious of a different perspective. Of Oneness, we are many in perspectives; of many perspectives, we derive in respect of an interconnecting Oneness. In respect of many independent individuals, we derive from one codependent community of interest. E Pluribus Unum.
Whether a Red Ass Moderate (Ram) finds himself on a volcano or on a social pyramid, his life entails a balancing art, and such balance easily falls to sloth, lack of attention, or addiction to locoweed, as when not disciplined or skilled in philosophy beyond science of immediate gratification.
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Snippets from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12brooks.html?em :
The Social Animal
David Brooks
September 11, 2008
If there’s a thread running through the gravest current concerns, it is that people lack a secure environment in which they can lead their lives. Wild swings in global capital and energy markets buffet family budgets. Nobody is sure the health care system will be there when they need it. National productivity gains don’t seem to alleviate economic anxiety. Inequality strains national cohesion. In many communities, social norms do not encourage academic achievement, decent values or family stability. These problems straining the social fabric aren’t directly addressed by maximizing individual freedom.
And yet locked in the old framework, the Republican Party’s knee-jerk response to many problems is: “Throw a voucher at it.” Schools are bad. Throw a voucher. Health care system’s a mess. Replace it with federally funded individual choice. Economic anxiety? Lower some tax rate.
....
If Republicans are going to fully modernize, they’re probably going to have to follow the route the British Conservatives have already trod and project a conservatism that emphasizes society as well as individuals, security as well as freedom, a social revival and not just an economic one and the community as opposed to the state.
3 comments:
Citizenship for a newborn should not be determined by place of birth, but by the citizenship of the baby's mother.
Every citizen should be in the government's database.
Every person should receive some minimally decent floor of health care, to be funded, if necessary, by the nearest government.
Higher levels of coverage may be purchased through insurers.
High risk buyers should be entitled to purchase insurance at rates limited by assigned risk pools.
Poison pill: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14027.html
SEE: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/burning_down_the_house.html.
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