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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="09f506e1egerbq.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Our Family History</B></FONT><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Family History"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HOMELESSNESS"><U>HOMELESSNESS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cars that I remember"><U>Cars that I remember</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id248.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT"><U>IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id247.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MEXICAN CITIZENSHIP"><U>MEXICAN CITIZENSHIP</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id249.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BAILOUT"><U>BAILOUT</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id250.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHED DO YOU WANT TO PAY YOUR TAXES"><U>WHED DO YOU WANT TO PAY YOUR TAXES</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id251.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="U.S. MILITARY POSTURE"><U>U.S. MILITARY POSTURE</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id252.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHO AM I?"><U>WHO AM I?</U></A>   |   CAMPS   |   <A HREF="id255.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CLIFFS SUGGESTIONS"><U>CLIFFS SUGGESTIONS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id256.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life After Life"><U>Life After Life</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id257.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EVOLUTION"><U>EVOLUTION</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id258.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SIMPLE SOLUTIONS"><U>SIMPLE SOLUTIONS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AN ARMY OF CONVICTS"><U>AN ARMY OF CONVICTS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id261.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A COLONY ON MARS"><U>A COLONY ON MARS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id297.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dominick Granelli, Ghost or Spirit "><U>Dominick Granelli, Ghost or Spirit      (formerly called Haunted Hotel)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id310.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="last page"><U>last page</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#339900" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CLIFFS NOTEBOOK HOME"><U>CLICK HERE</U></A> TORETURN TO CLIFF'S NOTEBOOK HOME PAGE</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#99CC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> CAMPS</div> <div> Standard;Everyone should have a Federal Job.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> (NOTE I WROTE THIS IN 2004, SINCE THEN I HAVE PERFECTED THE IDEA THAT I DESCRIBE IN DETAIL IN MY ARTICLE CALLED HOMELESS WHICH I WROTE IN 2008)</div> <bR> <div> The title of this article makes me sound like a real socialist, doesn’t it?  Well read on sweet dreamer.</div> <bR> <div> Some of the biggest problems that this society has is with indigent people, welfare recipients, the homeless, vagrants, truant’s, the mentally incompetent that there is no room for in the institutions, the chronically unemployed and the unemployable.  These folks, some of them not of their own choosing, some just plain lazy, others with drug and alcohol problems, cause a real drain on our society.  They commit a large percentage of our crime, they litter out streets, they overcrowd our jails and emergency rooms.</div> <bR> <div> We of the working middle class pay for their incarceration, their medical care, their education and we pay to meet all of their other needs.  This costs us Billions of Dollars every year and the price is going up.</div> <bR> <div> Now, think about it, can you come up with a simple solution that would solve all of these problems with one simple fix?  I have thought about it and come up with what I believe to be a workable plan.  My plan is based on the premise that it would cost society a lot less in the long run to hire all of these unfortunates.  Give them a minimum wage Federal Job. This could be based on the concept of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's but much larger.  Everyone would be entitled to a Federal job but nothing else.  At the work camps they would be tested and placed in the type of work that they are best suited for.  Many of them would be put to work meeting the needs of their community, including growing and processing their food, making their own clothes, doing their own laundry and many other survival tasks.  They would then be creating the wealth that they are now consuming.  Out of their wages they would be charged a reasonable rate for their board and room.  They would be housed in dormitories, barracks and cottages for married couples.  They would be charged for their medical insurance, which they free load now by impacting our emergency rooms, which are not allowed to turn them away.  Vagrants or homeless people would be sentenced to the camps until they accrued sufficient savings from their earnings to be transferred to a halfway house in a city where they could get work and leave the program.  The hopeless would be given work to suit their abilities even if that work amounted to lying on their back in a hospice bed at their facility while they closed out their lives.  There was an old story about inductees during WWII.  A man appeared at the draft board location and said “You can’t use me, see, I am paraplegic”.  “Oh yeah, said the sergeant, see that man over there filling that bucket with water, go tell him that it is full, he is blind.”  There are enough able bodied among the sick, lame and lazy though to staff thousands of fire crews, keep our highways and roadways policed of all litter and trash and landscape all public lands.  Unwed mothers with lots of children could be put work watching the children of another mother like her while the other mother worked in the mess hall or the laundry.</div> <bR> <div> This whole program could be funded by savings realized from the money we now spend addressing the special needs of these people.  Only the vagrants and other appropriate petty criminals would be sentenced to participate, all others would be there on a voluntary basis.  Keep in mind that there would be nowhere else for them to turn.  No public welfare, no free lunch, they would have to enter the program and work for what they received or parish.  Educational programs, counseling and support groups would all be available in plentiful supply so that these indigent that were capable of bettering themselves could do so.  Actually the million or so Federal employees that administered the program at the grass roots level could be selected from the residents as they deserved promotion to a better paying job and a better life style.  These people would all be paying into social security and medicare so that when they reached advanced age there would be the same safety net awaiting them that awaits the middle class.  Off duty hours could be spent at small business enterprise within the community to better prepare the residents for a better life when they were prepared to leave the camp and rejoin the mainstream society.</div> <bR> <div> Some would grow to prefer that lifestyle and remain there the rest of their lives, that’s fine it would add stability to the organization.  They would wear uniforms, eat in mess halls and sleep in dorms, just like the military.  They could be given passes to go into the nearest town if they could show that they had money to spend.  Their transportation would be provided by busses, no private automobiles would be allowed, or needed at the camps.  Medical care, dental care and pharmaceuticals would be available through their medical insurance plan that would operate similar to an hmo and be paid for by their paying of premiums.  Their own police would enforce laws that would be rather more stringent than in the mainstream society.  Their own courts would lay down sentences and incarceration facilities could be constructed in each camp.  </div> <bR> <div> Over the last 20 years or so there have been hundreds of base closures of military bases.  These facilities for the most part are still useable and still belong to the government.  This would be the ideal place to locate these camps as well as smaller work camps in all of our National Parks and Forests and wildlife refuge’s.</div> <bR> <div> The streets of our cities would be clean, no more slums, no more sub-standard ghetto schools, crime would be only white collar crime.  Business would boom and the United States could reach free to reach it’s full potential.  There would be no more hunger in our land.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>