FREEDOM FROM DISABILITY, FROM RETIREMENT INCOME INSECURITY, FROM A BANKRUPT SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM AND FROM UN-NECESSARY OBSTACLES CONCERNING THE WELL-BEING OF WAR VETERANS.
“ We the People of the United States, (…) promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ”. (Preamble of the Federal Constitution).
The United States is on the brink of a national fiscal and retirement security crisis. Social Security has a massive unfunded liability of $12 trillion, and in 2017 the program runs into the red as benefits paid exceed contributions. Worse, the Social Security Trust Fund is full of meaningless government IOUs, meaning that there are no real assets in the “Trust Fund”. State wise, Washingtonians will be voting on an Initiative to extend training for the home care system. Yet, little is done about putting in place a home-care system which would significantly reduce the need to dispatch more and more home care services. If Washington State does not lead the State and the Nation in these challenges, Washingtonians will face tax hikes and benefit cuts.
What we need is innovative plans, creative audacity. At the Snohomish Country Council on Aging where elected officials and the candidates were invited to listen to grievances and financial requests, nothing was mentioned about holistic health and longevity. On the contrary, there was a consensus that disability strikes earlier. A women of 47 years was there to confirm that this age is old age. Yet, the science of longevity has demonstrated that our bodies and metabolism can function over one hundred years old. Under good conditions, with few costs. So we must find those good conditions that will avoid additional medication, more training in drug management, more band-aiding. We need enlightened policies.
MEASURE 1. HOLISTIC HEALTH AND LONGEVITY WORKSHOPS FOR THE DISABLED. The disabled of the State will therefore be encouraged to dream. To act. To hope. To take responsibility. To detox. To revitalize. To rejuvenate. And to participate in self reliance via holistic health and well-ness activities and workshops.
Thanks to holistic health techniques, a projected 20 percent of the State's disabled will be able to get off their disability within four years, thereby saving the State and the Nation considerable funds which will be re-inserted into the prevention field. And thereby helping to free some of the dormant creative energies embedded within the disabled.
MEASURE 2. HOLISTIC HEALTH TRAINING AND REMUNERATION FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS (FAMILY OR NOT) WHO HOME CARE THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY. In Washington State, nearly 80 percent of caregivers (over 600,000 persons) are family members who generously give their time to their family members. However, this restraints their freedom and livelihood. As such, family caretakers will be encouraged to care for their family members via training in holistic health and longevity workshops and some financial assistants for those who are needy.
MEASURE 3. EQUAL EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: In this perspective, Washingtonians with disabilities should benefit from equal educational opportunities. Equal employment opportunity is also needed, including, but not limited to the home site or in eco village communities which cater to their basic needs.
MEASURE 4. EQUAL ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE: For the disabled who are incapacitated long term, everything will be done for their quality of life and rehabilitation. For the disabled who have difficulty getting their disability recognized, they will benefit from free legal assistance, like all other low or mid income person who can not afford an attorney. However, pursuant to the Social Security and Disability federal statutes, it is federal administrative and social security courts which have jurisdiction over this problem. Nonetheless, the Governor and the State's health services remain constitutionally free to assist the disabled, especially when the federal system is deficient, in which case this State freedom becomes a duty.
Thus, the State can and often must intervene in facilitating the legal process, with a meaningful access to holistic health, equal opportunity and dignity. And as our material and divisive civilization continues to proliferate, many of our chronic ailments will worsen and new auto-immune diseases will emerge (we already have over 100 auto-immune diseases other civilizations never had). So Washington State, whose public agents are much closer to the patient than the federal agents, needs to address this challenge with diligence, rigor and consistency.
MEASURE 5. PERSONAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS: As for retirement pension security, the Action Committee’s position is that workers should put their efforts and trust into financial self-reliance via a personal retirement account which would be fueled with a portion of their Social Security payroll taxes that they, not bureaucrats, would own. PRAs would grow with the economy and provide seniors with secure retirement income.
MEASURE 6: REDUCTION OF RETIREMENT AGE TO 60 YEARS OLD AND CONCOMITANT LONGEVITY WORKSHOPS SO AS TO ENCOURAGE THE ELDERLY TO HELP AS VOLUNTEERS TO RECONSTRUCT THE NATION FROM THE BUSH SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMIS. To this end, the official retiring years to 60 years old should be encouraged. Unless there were compelling reasons not to and-or compelling reasons to reduce this age to even lower (to be ascertained by a special expert committee). This initiative would pave the way for additional employment opportunity for the younger generations, thanks to which the economy would be more innovative, dynamic and prosperous. With this asset, we will be able to assist the 60 years old baby boomers elderly to focus on their health. Most of the trillions of dollars the Nation pays for health care regards those who are at the end of their life process. By requesting that the elderly take health longevity workshops, (the condition for early retirement), we can significantly reduce costly old age chronic diseases (Alzheimer, Parkinson, cancer, cardio-vascular, dvt, diabetes and so many more), increases savings and give these baby boomers an extra 30 to 50 or more years of good vibrant health, thanks to which they can participate as volunteers to the reconstruction era that will follow the après Bush national and international catastrophes.
MEASURE 7. COMPENSATORY ASSISTANCE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR THE VETERANS. In the face of today's needs, veterans need more assistance and equal opportunity to benefit from fulfillment, re-insertion and healing.