“Give a man to fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will eat for life.”

This is my plan for handling the homeless in this country; I would like your serious thoughts and consideration.

This is an idea I am trying to turn into a reality.

It will happen . . .

As for now it’s still in its conceptual development phase.

This is an active work in progress, here’s the current working plan:

(3 year program)

Provide
free education in a series of levels to the homeless:

1. Ethics and life decision skills - non religious

2. Provided spiritual education (optional)

3. Provide education in basics skills:

                 
(phase 1) -reading, writing, math, basic science

                 
(phase 2) -art appreciation, music, philosophy

4. Provide testing to develop functional skill set

5. Technical education and development.

Financial and housing incentives provided in return for development scale . . . Or grades.

All residents of this program must stay in mandatory dormitories in program.

Program provided by a first come first serve basis, with an allowance made for 1 formal entry a month.

Freedom limited in accordance with progress in courses.

Those in dorms required to provide state base work from 6AM to 2PM . . .

Rewards of freedom for outstanding progress.

If citizens do not progress, they will be assigned under the direct care of a mentor
(a resident of the program) who will receive additional freedom for his student’s progress . . . Brothers helping brothers and sisters helping sisters.

There will be an assignment of levels given; with each level more freedom is allowed.

These mini communities will be set throughout the city and be a refuge to only those who agree to it’s tenants.

Healthcare is given, food is provided, but at a cost paid by labor and progress in classes and in community involvement.

Exercise and personal care will be taught and promoted with freedom. . . Cleanliness, grooming, and body fat will be measured and graded.

These centers will be run by a series of prominent community members and companies, who are offered substantial tax relief in exchange and with each center’s progress graded they will receive additional tax and financial incentives.

The highest performing center will be awarded a 100% tax waiver to its sponsor.

University professors, teachers, business professionals, religious leaders, and community leaders will be offered tax incentives in exchange for their services and awarded additional financial rewards for each student’s progress.

For hiring graduates of this program, businesses will be given additional tax incentives.

Graduates may continue education in ethics, religion, math, philosophy and receive additional financial rewards for monthly testing progress.

How do you feel how this program will affect the economy and local communities?

What drawbacks will be encountered?

How can this program be improved?

Please provide your feedback . . . together we can make a difference today.

Respectfully,

Aaron Manley Smith

KID WARNING! THERE’S A SWEAR WORD AT THE END.
Christopher Walken tells the tale of Romeo and Juliet, and how cupid (John Madden) was actually responsible for the tragedy that befell them. Starring Nicholas Cage as Romeo and Natalie Portman as Juliet.From BlameSociety.net

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 This is one of my favorite passages from C.S.Lewis from his book The Four Loves:

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one,     not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness…We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it.

What I know about love and believe about love and giving ones heart began in this.

In short, to love is to risk and we will feel pain when we love . . . but the alternate of not letting go and feeling free to love is a worse place to be.

In the end, above all else, feel free to love and love without question.

Only then, will we experience true love . . . swing for the fences kiddos, we’ve got a lot of life left ahead of us!

I decided to make this graphic to share with a friend, then I decided to share it with all of you.

(just click on the image below to enlarge and feel free to save this, it’s my gift to all of you)