I don't know about everyone else, but I'm tired of this being cut, that being cut, jobs being lost, police officers being laid off, teachers being laid off, and so on and so on. There are options that are not being considered. Options, which just this morning, I've sent to the governor of our state and to a legislature member. Because things need to be done, I get that, I think we all get that. But when they say that nothing is off the table, then let's make sure nothing is off the table. Including but not limited to the ideas I submitted this morning. Here is a copy of them.
(1) Abolish the death penalty. It would save millions to billions. I know people say it's needed for closure. No it's not. People feel they don't have closure because the people who committed the crimes are able to constantly appeal and thus dragging the families into it over and over again. Get rid of the death penalty, save billions, save the families from having to constantly relive the crime with every appeal.
(2)there is no law, I've researched this, stating we must observe daylight savings. Bush in one of infinite moments of stupidity, decided to lengthen day light savings, only for the country to find out it's ended up costing us more money than it's worth. So, get rid of all together. Besides, many of don't look forward to changing our clocks back, then 4 months later, changing them again. It's a waste of time.
(3) Take a lesson from Germany. This is what I learned when I lived there many years ago. They have a welfare type system, and they pay those families well, but they do work for what the state pays them. For example, if a person is on public assistance, they could be sent to a farmer to do work, they could fill in as volunteers at a hospital or any place else that might need them. The thing is, the state would act like a temp agency. They would fill jobs, but people would be receiving state assistance. It helps fulfill a need to have a job filled, it helps the person on assistance feel useful, it also means that jobs that everyone says the illegal immigrants take that no one else in this country will do, would all be filled with a win/win benefit.
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