Homeless in America

On a single night in January 2015 more than 560,000 Americans were homeless…
                                         

Homelessness is considered an epidemic in many US cities. As recently as June 2016, the city of Los Angeles, CA has been contemplating declaring a “State of Emergency” to assist withthe more than 47,000 homeless in Los Angeles County on any given night and the more than 115,000 homeless across the state of California. In New York City, homelessness has tripled in the last 15 years. In 2000, approximately 20,000 people utilized nightly shelter services, while in 2015 more than 60,000 utilized nightly shelter services.

The costs associated with homeless vary by city, county and state. In 2013 however, a Central Florida Commission on Homelessness study indicated that their region spent an average of $31,000 a year per homeless person.

In the Homeless in America chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, plans and programs are detailed that work to solve the homeless epidemic in America. These solutions includeutilizing our closed military installations around the country to house and provide infrastructure to the homeless in America. Our objective must be to provide the homeless in America with an opportunity for change. Most homeless do not want to be homeless but they have not been able to create an opportunity for change on their own. By utilizing infrastructures that already exist and programs designed to support disadvantaged Americans, we can defeat homelessness in America.


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Racism

We must stop allowing racism to be used as a tool. We must understand the difference between racism and culture…
                                         

Racism, as an action, is a very powerful tool. It is often exploited by the media to gain ratings and sell publications; it is exploited by politicians to capitalize on political agendas; and it is exploited in business to create capital. As difficult as it may seem, we as a people must work to remove the power that is owned by racism from those that would use it for their own gains.

Racism is defined as the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. This is to say that being a person of an inferior race is being a person with low traits and capacity that requires others to ensure they exist; that inferior people do not possess the ability to achieve individual existence. In the Racism chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, ideas are introduced that promote effective measures of how to remove the stigma that is racism. The first step in removing the power of racism is to remove from our society the stereotype of individuals being inferior. It is important for each one of us is self-reliant, accountable, independent, and relevant.

We live in a country of great freedom and abundance, yet too often live our lives as we are deprived. Each individual must open their eyes and see the abundance that surrounds them. Opportunity, generosity and goodness surround us all and create the unique environment that affords individual independence. And true equality can only be achieved through independence of one’s self.


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Foundation of America

The founding principles of our forefathers are not ours to change…
                                         

As Americans work to build a fulcrum of balance that the legal citizens of our nation can support, we must utilize lessons from our past rather than waste time learning them again. In recent years, the idea of America being a multi-culture society has served only to dilute our sovereignty as a nation and our national identity. As Americans, we already have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own history. By allowing foreign interests to become American interests, the principles upon which America was founded will be nullified and our country will falter as a result.

In the Foundation of America chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, the fact that our American Heritage has already been established is endorsed. Our nation’s forefathers put in place a set of governances that were accepted by the American majority in order to establish the United States of America. These governances that have guided generations of Americans, and are the foundation of our Modern America today, must not be altered to appease foreign interests or those not of the American majority. Uncle Sam, the Stars and Stripes, “In God We Trust” are all good, are all important foundations of America and are all accepted as such by the American majority. We must work as a nation to protect our core values and ask those that would see them change to leave our country and be part of another nation that fits more with their individual ideas of how a nation of people shouldbe structured.

The world we want depends on us. It depends on you America. We must work together to develop our American Fulcrum to balance the complex issues that shape our modern world. It is only through balance that we can continue to achieve greatness as a country.


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Religion

The foundation of religion is faith, which gives way to hope. And hope is ours for whatever purpose we choose…

Religion is defined as a set of beliefs that give cause, nature and purpose to the universe, usually involving devotion and rituals in observances of a god, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. There are many forms of religion practiced in the United States and they are all based on faith. Even the atheist and agnostic have faith there is no form of god, and thereby give form to their own type of religion.

In the Religion chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, the idea of religion is given validation as an effect to hope and faith. Those that work to disprove religion and deity do not clearly understand the relationship that faith and hope have with the human spirit.

It is the cynical individuals that work to disprove the deity figures of religion believing that disproving the deity will disprove religion. How could a religion exist without a deity to create it? The truth is, no human that exists knows if there is a deity in any form or substance. For a human being to claim to know the existence or non-existence of a higher form is absurd.Enter the term cynical individual as the human that exists and claims to know the truth of higher form as opposed to believing there is a higher form.

And even more profound, is the cynical individual’s failure to understand that religion is the result of faith; not deity. Faith, that in choosing grace when confronted with life choices will yield hope. And hope is the right of every human being. Hope is ours to own for whatever purpose we choose. It is our hope that protects us, it is our hope that guides us, it is our hope that relieves us, and it is our hope that provides us hope. And who is anyone to try and take hope, to try and reduce the abundance of hope, to try and belittle hope. It is not yours to take. So to the cynical individual, it must be said that religion is the result of faith, born from grace and the order of man.

 


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US Tax System

In 2015, more than $4-trillion was generated by our US government in payroll and income taxes…
                                         

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1. Identify your opportunity for change. Provide an overview of the opportunity
3. Provide details of your solution.
4. Provide qualitative or quantitative information (proof for your solution) as to why your solution will resolve the issue(s).
5. How will America benefit from your proposed solution.
6. Who in America will benefit from your proposed solution.

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US Foreign Aid

The US gives more than $33 billion annually to 144 foreign nations with no requirement for repayment…
                                         

United States Foreign Aid is aid given to foreign countries by the US government and is a component of the US International Affair’s budget. US Foreign Aid was designed to provide assistance to developing foreign nations in promoting economic growth, improving and stabilizing government, reducing poverty, expanding access to medical assistance and health care, promoting human and equal rights, expanding public education, assisting the US in the war on illegal drugs and strengthening bonds with allied foreign nations.

In recent years the US government has utilized foreign aid for US national security anti-terrorist interests by working to promote global development of foreign nations. The United States spent approximately $33 billion on foreign aid in 2015, providing assistance to over 140 foreign countries. Since 2001, nearly all US foreign aid — military as well as economic — has been provided in the form of grants, with loans representing less than 1% of total US foreign aid appropriations. The de-emphasis on loan programs came largely in response to the debt problems of developing countries. The decision was made by both US Congress and the Executive Branch of the US government that foreign aid should not add to the already existing debt burden carried by developing countries.

United States Foreign Aid is vital to the global development of foreign nations, but there must be changes made to the US foreign aid programs in place today. America must work to grow these developing countries into independent nations, thereby removing their need for economic assistance from outside interests. The US foreign aid program must be restructured to provide more effective assistance to developing nations.

To accomplish this action, the US government should implement the USA Building Unified Leadership through Designed Structure (USA-BUILDS?) Program as the primary means of providing developmental US foreign Aid to foreign developing countries. As described in the US Foreign Aid chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, the USA-BUILDS Program is designed to ensure foreign aid is earned by workers in foreign countries and not given as grants to foreign governments. The USA-BUILDS program also details how foreign aid monies will be repaid to the United States, thereby creating millions of dollars of revenue to the US economy each year.


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US Prison System

US Taxpayers will pay more than $80 billion to support the US prison systems in 2016…
                                         

US prisons are overcrowded and expensive to run. The US federal and state governments must implement programs that reduce the number of non-violent inmates that are currently incarcerated. As programs are developed to reduce the current prison population, other programs must be put in place to provide opportunities and purpose for the departing inmates. We must give departing inmates a solid chance to make a life for themselves in American society.

Discussed in the US Prison System chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, The US Bureau of Prisons should implement the Structured Training for Assured Rehabilitation?(STAR) Program www.USASTARPROGRAM.org. This program is a complete rehabilitation solution designed to provide inmates with a solid foundation to succeed in American society after prison. The USA-STAR Program is the most advanced program ever created to assure rehabilitation for inmates.

Through specialized teaching and training programs, each inmate is prepared to function in American society and is provided with a skillset in order to successfully hold a job. One requirement of the program is that each inmate must pass the Bureau of Prison high school aptitude test in order to be released from prison. Other benefits of the program are personal and business skills training, team building, job enhancement training, job placement, among others.

In addition, the USA-STAR Program provides a reduction in budget spend for the US Bureau of Prisons, as a joint alliance is formed with each US state’s Welfare Assistance Office for inmate rehabilitation. Each US state’s Welfare Assistance Office will be able to utilize their USA-STAND™ budget to fund their operations in the USA-STAR Program.


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Illegal Immigration Control

Privatizing the control of illegal immigration will create $50 billion of revenue in the US annually…

There are many national issues that currently affect the legal citizens of the United States as it relates to illegal immigration. Of primary importance is the extremely high cost of having illegal immigrants in the United States. Our system of US government is not designed to provide continued support to illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States as our national deficit will attest. At the same time, our US workforce must have the option of being augmented with low-cost labor as currently afforded by the illegal immigrants living and working in the United States.

To ensure the peaceful deportation of the illegal immigrants currently living and working in the United States, while simultaneously augmenting our US workforce with low-cost migrant labor, we must privatize immigration control. Through the USA Structured Augmentation of Foreign Employees (USA-SAFE) Program, the United States can peacefully ensure the deportation of most illegal immigrants from the US while continuing to support the current American workforce. Once fully implemented, the USA-SAFE Program can generate more than $29 billion annually to private US businesses. In addition, the USA-SAFE Program has been designed to pay for the security and control of our US borders (“Securing our United States Borders”) by adding an estimated $21 billion annually to the US Border Defense Program.

The current affects of illegal immigration on the United States include:

  • There are currently more than 11.3 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. This includes more than 3.4 illegal immigrant households that cost the US taxpayers an estimated $64.6 billion in 2015.
  • There are currently 8.1 million illegal immigrant workers in the United States. In fact, 5.6% of our current American workforce is made up of illegal immigrants. The USA-SAFE Program removes these illegal immigrant workers from our US companies and employers while simultaneously providing qualified backfills. These backfill workers will pay US federal and state income tax.
  • According to the US Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 65.6% of households headed by illegal immigrants utilize some type of US federal government welfare. This includes 59.1% of unauthorized illegal immigrant households utilizing US government food programs and 56% of unauthorized illegal immigrant households having at least 1 person on Medicaid.
  • The Selfishness of some Americans that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in America must be stopped. By allowing illegal immigrants to seek employment and solace in the United States, we are depriving their countries of origin, and their countries citizens, of the courage those who leave take with them. We must ensure the illegal immigrants living in America today are returned to their countries of origin so they can be a part of growing their countries future.

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US Welfare System

The total spending on United States welfare will exceed $1 trillion dollars in 2016…

US federal and state spending on the US means-tested welfare system is at its highest level in United States history. And according to the current President’s budget plans, means-tested welfare spending will increase for the next decade. The common misconception is that more US government spending on means-tested welfare programs will do more to assist poor and low income Americans to move off of the US Welfare System.

The US federal and state governments currently operate roughly 80 means-tested welfare programs that provide cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and lower-income Americans. The total federal, state, and local government spending on these programs now exceeds $1 trillion annually.

US government spending for US welfare programs is expected to reach $1.08 trillion in 2016. This is an increase of $156.8 billion over the last 5 years and represents a sharp contrast to the plans put in place by the US government to help move Americans off US welfare assistance.

The increased budget each year for the US Welfare System is proof that the current system is failingall of America. There must be a cap immediately put on US welfare spending and a reverse budget plan put into operation. The goal of US government should be a 5 year plan to reduce US welfare spending in the same increments it has increased over each of the last 5 years.

In the US Welfare System chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, plans and programs are detailed that work to remove Americans from our US Welfare System and get them back into the American workforce.


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US Legal System

Over 100 million cases were filed in our US court systems in 2015…

As of 2015, there were 1,300,705 lawyers licensed to practice law in the United States. Of these US lawyers, more than 950,000 were in private practice. Lawyers in private practice had an average hourly bill rate of $361. In addition, there were an estimated 1.6 paralegalsto each private practice lawyer billing an average of $116 per hour to clients.

The average legal US citizen is unable to afford a US lawyer at the rates currently being charged by private practice US lawyers. Our legal system has been allowed to become income biased and does not provide equal protection under the law. With the inability to hire quality legal representation, legal US citizens are forced to yield to those with means, regardless of innocence or correctness. A more affordable US system of law must be put in place to provide a more equal attainability of legal representation for all our legal US citizens.

Private practice attorneys should never be allowed extreme profiting from protecting therights of our legal United States’ citizens. To establish a standardization of cost for service by all lawyers practicing law in the United States, a wage scale system should be established by each US state for the lawyers licensed to practice law in their state. The Lawyer Wage Scale system, introduced in the US Legal System chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, will be applicable to all lawyers that work for, or own, a private practice. Each US state will be responsible for management and administration of their state’s Lawyer Wage Scale.


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K-12 – University – Workplace Security

More than 486 children and adults have been killed by active shooters in the US since 2000…

To defeat the issue of active shooters, we must first understand the issue. The United States FBI identified 160 active shooter incidents that occurred in the United States between 2000 and 2013. During the first 7 years included in the study, an average of 6.4 incidents occurred annually. In the last 7 years of the FBI study, that average has increased to 16.4 incidents annually. The accelerating trend reinforces the need for increased active threat training at our schools and places of employment.

The FBI has determined that devastation from an active shooter can occur in a matter of minutes. Of the 160 active shooter incidents, a duration of the incident could only be established for 63 incidents. In addition, 107 (66.9%) of the 160 incidents ended before police arrived and could engage the shooter, either because the shooter had committed suicide, the shooter had fled or citizens intervened.

We must deter potential active shooters from initiating terrorist acts in our schools and places of employment by securing those environments individually. A team consisting of US Military Veterans has developed a complete school safety solution called SHELTR™ (Structured “Hazard – Emergency – Lethal Threat” Response).

Building the American Fulcrum details The SHELTR™ K-12 Program—A complete school crisis mitigation solution structured to protect children, teachers and staff in schools across America (www.sheltrusa.com). The SHELTR Program™ is a non-lethal program designed to keep the primary mission of our US schools that of teaching our children in an open environment conducive to learning. We must not make our US schools militarized in look or design, however, we must take measures to keep our learning environments safe. We must also take these security measures in our universities and workplace environments.


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US Media Accountability

Journalists, reporters and media corporations must be rated and held accountable for the accuracy of information provided to America…

Currently, there are no accountability measures in place for journalists or reporters. Articles and news feeds are often sensationalized to evoke emotion and to ensure viewership or subscription services. There is no formal accountability for error, other than a small printed retraction or on-air correction. Journalists and reporters must be held accountable to a higher level in reporting the truth and accuracy of information provided to the American people, without bias or sensationalism.

Building the American Fulcrum discusses in detail, procedures to keep the United States’ media professionals accountable for their reporting. To ensure a more formal level of accuracy in reporting, professional journalists and reporters in the United States should be required to earn a press license before they can work in the media industry. Professional denotes that only those journalists and reporters that are paid to work in the media industry are required to be licensed. This will allow others to continue their pursuit of journalistic and reporting interests, just not receive payment. Should a journalist or reporter administratively lose their press license, they will no longer be able to earn money from media companies for their services.

When a media company or corporation controls multiple media outlets, an accuracy grade will be established for that company or corporation based on the grades of their controlled media outlets.These grades will allow the United States public to know each media outlet, company and corporation’s accuracy in reporting information. If a media outlet, company or corporation falls below an accuracy rating of 70%, they must pay fines to the US FCC and be put on probation until the inaccuracy in information reporting is corrected. If the media outlet, company or corporation cannot increase their information accuracy rating to above 70% within 6 months of being put on probation, they will lose their license and be closed.


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US Elected Officials

Quarterly performance reviews must be conducted on all US elected officials as a measure to enforce “Term Limits”…

US government elected officials have the primary responsibility of representing the American people in their elected positions. The fundamental issue, however, is there is no exact measure for accountability of service for our US government elected officials as there is rarely an established criteria for service. It is generally understood that US government elected officials provide representation, legislation, constituent service as well as providing information to those they represent.

In the US Government Elected Officials chapter of Building the American Fulcrum, programs and policies are introduced that are designed to hold elected government officials accountable to their elected positions. In order to create a more efficient level of US government, our US government elected officials must be provided with a job performance program that correlates to the position to which they have been elected. The job performance program should establish objectives of the position and performance indicators to determine if the US government elected official is performing to the level of the guidelines established in the job performance program.

The Government Representative Assured National Development (USA-GRAND?) Program is designed to establish job performance structure to the positions held by our US government elected officials. The objective of the USA-GRAND Program is to ensure the needs of the American people are being met during the term of service provided by our US government elected officials.


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Securing Our US Borders