National Safety Net (NSN) — Six Point Agenda
In keeping with the Spirit of FDR’s “Second Bill Of Rights.”

National Safety Net – Six Point Agenda

America needs a National Safety Net (NSN). Presently, America has a weak safety-net, and in a Capitalist society in which there are inevitably losers and winners, many people fall through our weak and tattered safety-net to a hard landing. America needs a strong publicly financed safety-net, not only under the poor, but also under the middle class.

The NSN could be woven together by 6 essential elements: Universal Health Care, a Living Wage, Fair Unemployment Benefits, Affordable Housing, Fundamental Ecology, and a Department Of Peace. This list is not meant to be exhaustive or complete, and clearly Organic Food for Everyone, Free Higher Education, Life Long Pensions, Mass Transit, etc. would add to the strength and comfort of America’s social fabric.

In most European countries, if you lose your job, then you don’t lose your housing and health care. In Germany, for example, if you lose your job, then you don’t get 6 months unemployment benefits, with perhaps a few extensions, as in America. Rather, you receive two thirds of your salary for one year, and then everyone gets an equal income plus the cost of their housing and health care for as long as needed, provided they are looking for a job. This doesn’t provide an affluent lifestyle, but it does keep people from sleeping in their cars or in the streets. It’s past time in America to tie together these basic rights (not privileges) into a strong safety-net that will catch, and soften the blows, of everyone that fails/falls in time of socio-economic crisis.

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