Seeking A Freeing and Less Difficult to Abuse

Paradigm.  

                       Much of our social service paradirm was design, establish amd constructed over a 42 year period - 1933 to 1975. A question that few people are willing to ask is- Does This Paradigm really serve our society well?

Some people are asking - Why do we take the view that this paradigm is set in stone and the only acceptable change that can be made to it is to allow it to grow larger and more complex.

Are there better ways, more inexpensive and effective, more individualistically oriented ways to meet the needs as well as motivate and empower our neediest fellow Americans?

People such as William Strauss and Neil Howe on their web- site ,The Fourth Turning, have been asking people to wonder " How do we make what we do more effective, efficient and transformative concerning the support we provide to the neediest Americans ?"

I am led to wonder if we are wiser to create a dual track system which will provide seperately and differently for those who through no fault of their own will never be able to provide for themselves and those who for numerous reasons are able to and should be expected to do more to live better and to improve their lives.


The First Program suggested should be set up to make sure that those who cannnot provide for themselves have adequate funding and programs. We , of course, must make sure that they are funded at prudent and sustainable levels both for themselves and  and to insure that we can prudently affors the levels of funding that they are being accorded.

The Program must encourage people to seek to improve themselves and must be time- limited. No one should be thrown out in the cold. However, No one should benefit from the labor and taxes of others when it can be shown that they are capable of providing their own upkeep.


Who gains from a system that, at some level, encourages people to be and accept being far LESS than they can be? It seems to me that only those who recieve those benefits and those who make a living serving that those who are being provided those benefits prosper through such a system being in place and safeguarded!