Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy!The government would work much better with less bureaucracy. Reduce red tape, duplication, and waste. But how?

Here’s a suggested first step. Set up a Bureau of Bureaucracy Reduction. Their job is to research, recommend, and help implement ways to reduce bureaucracy. Couldn’t hurt!

This can be added to some other ideas from Musea:

Community Bank Accounts or CBAs can end poverty without spending a penny of capital. (Good for any projects needing money.)

Government Worker Bonuses. Government workers know first hand where the waste is. When a worker or department suggests a practical and workable way to reduce spending, they get 1% of the savings for the first year. 1% of a billion adds up!

When there is a party switch in government, the new party almost always changes things too much too quickly, specially in spending and revenues. So I suggest when it comes to reducing the debt we start a 1 tenth of 1% rule. That means that each year all revenues are increased 1 tenth of 1%, and all spending is reduced 1 tenth of 1% across the board. That reduction hurts few and helps all.

Finally start a government savings account. Put 1 billion into the savings account each year. The money cannot be spent unless for a dire emergency, or till government finances are in control and the account is no longer needed.

Small Houses and Rich Neighborhoods

SMALL HOUSES and RICH NEIGHBORHOODS

By now, everyone recognizes the need for low cost housing. Small homes are perfect for seniors, singles, or couples just starting out. They are also houses that architects love to design. So who’s against?

Rich Neighborhoods are against. The problem is when there are too many small houses together it lowers the value of richer homes around them. The wealthy protect their neighborhoods from the influx of smaller homes because they usually house poorer people, that bring down the worth of their larger homes.

The solution is half and half.

The solution is to allow for mini houses to be built anywhere, but in limited numbers. That means a nice neighborhood would get 2-5, not hundreds of small houses. That would be good for both sides.

The rich would retain the wealth of their homes and have access to housing for parents, and kids.
The poor would have access to housing they can buy. And it would help eliminate segregated ghettos of poor people.

Tom Hendricks
Musea since 1992.

Safe Earth … not yet!

We don’t live on a safe Earth yet.
Too many people can’t be free without being afraid of consequences for their actions, actions that most nations feel are the rights for all people.
Be safe till we all can be safe.

When Major Brands Fail, Everyone Wins

When major brands fall, everyone wins!

Boomers got most of their advertising from 3 TV networks and a single local newspaper. So the companies that controlled ads on those outlets became major brands, got mega big, began to lobby and then control the government as they pushed out competition.

But Millennials don’t have that brand loyalty because they didn’t have that concentrated brand onslaught – and they look to the internet for info, not the networks, not a local newspaper.

That break down of major brands means, a breakdown of major corporations that have ruled too much for too long; and in doing so, they have more and more limited everything to control more.

Specifically in the arts, this change will go a long way in opening the door to thousands of companies competing in music, publishing, film, media, etc. etc. etc.

Look to a break down of the big, and an opening door for all the rest of us.

Paradigm Shift

The paradigm is shifting from
CONSERVATIVE versus LIBERAL to CORPORATIONS versus PEOPLE.

Day after day it’s becoming more and more clear. Both are fighting for control of the government. Corporations usually win.

Look at this list of problems facing the nation. These major problems all have something in common. PEOPLE vs. CORPORATIONS.

1. NET NEUTRALITY
People want it. Major media corporations don’t.

2. OPIOID CRISIS
People addicted. Drug corporations making big profits.

3. BANKING CRISIS
People lost their homes. Banks got 700 billion dollar bail out.

4. MASS SHOOTINGS.
People want reasonable gun laws. NRA / Gun Lobby opposes change.

5. F – 35 FIGHTER JET ( Cost 1 trillion dollars), Military spending, oil wars. Capital enough to end poverty in the country. Weapons Manufacturers.

6. TAX REFORM.
People got little relief. Corporations got massive tax cuts.

7. DATA MINING.
People want reasonable privacy. Corporations want personal data to focus ads.

8. HEALTH COSTS CRISIS
Medicare for all. Health Care Business Profits.

9. CLIMATE WARMING / SCIENCE STUDIES.
People for common sense change. Polluting Corporations.

10. NATIONAL PARKS
National Parks for all. Corporate controlled land for profit.

11. MEDIA
People need to know about issues and solutions. Media concentrates on scandal to avoid investigative journalism of corporation abuses.

12. TOBACCO
Smokers addicted. Tobacco company profits.

13. EDUCATION
College Education . College profits.

We have three political parties, the Republican Corporate Party, the Democratic Corporate Party, and all the rest of us that don’t have lobbyists.

Musea, tomhendricks.us

The list is just started. What would you add to it?