Common Sense Social Policies and Innovation

The intention is to improve our quality of life with less unintended consequences: grow interdependence between government, business, and nonprofits.

Focused on promoting locally-tuned programs and solutions to social issues; and, return to a merit-based social selection processes.

Common Sense Social Policies and Innovation

Governing Principles

Organizing Principle 1 

Grow interdependence between government, business, and nonprofits. Each has a specific role in the community. Government provides protection and central infrastructure all can leverage. Business creates innovative solutions and contributes financial support for local community nonprofits. Nonprofits provide quality of life solutions, including cultural and socioeconomic support to maintain human dignity.

Organizing Principle 2 

Move the majority of decision making to the local community. Solve social issues using locally-tuned solutions. Enable communities to design their own civic and social institutions that would dramatically improve program effectiveness and quality of life for all. 

Governing Principle 3

Merit-based mindset. The best qualified individuals are selected for opportunities regardless of demographics. Open access to high-quality education and training.

Ten Areas of Concern to Improve the Quality of Life:

1. Ensure Human Dignity

The basic requirements for human dignity: Food security. Clean water. Affordable housing. Cooperative community-based healthcare. Social justice. Socially responsible commerce. Promoting human dignity is the best means of implementing and maintaining healthy, safe neighborhoods.

2. Insist on Our Unalienable Rights

The first ten amendments to the current U.S. Constitution is our founders response to those who would be tyrants. They are the spirit that must be protected, but they must be reviewed and updated. We must nullify attempts to limit individual rights and self-determination. When is the government interfering with our  freedoms.

3. Improve Wealth Distribution

All individuals are capable of creating and monetizing intellectual property. Strong small businesses grow the wealth of the community. Small farms provide us with variety and nutrient-rich food. Reduce the overreach and financial burden of Government. Fixing income and wealth distribution and An improved approach to universal quality of life.

4. Family Ties Before Government

The family is where we get our moral values, not at government institutions -- however you define family. We need to stop abdicating our values to those promoted in advertising campaigns. Importance of families to society.

5. Ensure our Children are Literate

Our ability to participate in the global economy is dependent on citizens' literacy. Each child is a unique creation that learns in their own special way. Parents bear the responsibility and must have the freedom to chose the learning method that works best for their child. The importance of literacy to remain a global player.

6. Subdue Racketeering

Many of the recent laws enacted under the auspices of "criminal reform" have only exasperated the problem. Those involved in criminal enterprise should forfeit any expectation of reduced bail and incarceration. Early community intervention and economic opportunity would dramatically reduce crime rate. How big is organized crime in the United States.

7. Respect Human Life

The miracle of life begins at conception. How we treat the unborn reflects our compassion for other human beings. This respect is a fundamental belief contained in our thoughts and actions, not legislation (pro or con abortion). The Benefits for Respecting Human Life

8. Stewardship of the Planet

Government is the not the lead on creating sustainable environmental policy.  All community stakeholders must cooperate and create sustainable commercial practices. Practices that implement synergistic ecological and commercial infrastructure. Reducing the government's role in environmental protection. God's Mandate to Maintain Stewardship of the Planet

9. Instill Business Social Responsibility -- Conscious Capitalism

By changing the mental model of profit maximization and short-term return in business to balancing profit with other social returns, as in Conscious Capitalism, would ensure adequate support for nonprofit programs and improve community quality of life. What is Conscious Capitalism? and  Beyond Marxism to Social Entrepreneurism.

10. Establish and Maintain the Local Economic Engine

 Create a local commercial environment that supports continuous entrepreneurial advancement.  Imitating the success of the Silicon Valley.

Summary

Establishing effective interdependence between government, nonprofits, and business to promote local solutions using the guiding principles within the nine areas of concern, stated above, would improve the quality of life with less unintended consequences.