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Pope: Thou shalt do less MSG, more MDG, and fat cats will happily pay

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Box do-gooders in AWSC proposal
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What if that legislation offered America's 600 billionaires the opportunity to invest in a million Americans a year making such AWSCNS groups as those above dramatically more effective?

This power point of People's Lobby's American World Service Corps National Service (AWSCNS) Congressional Proposal includes a fresh and unorthodox funding method to benefit all the inhabitants of Mother Earth and help soothe its angry Mother Nature.

Each year around October Forbes Magazine publishes its Forbes 400 Richest Americans issue. People's Lobby uses that pinko-leaning magazine as the basis for its unorthodox funding mechanism that Pope Francis and Jesus would celebrate at the magazine stand.

Here are some spreadsheet breakdowns that reflect what percentage and amount of money just the Forbes 400 would have to invest to make the world a safer place if the AWSC legislation were implemented in 2003, 2015, or 2017.

Note how much richer 400 super-rich Americans have become. Could they afford to invest in 21 million Americans doing good at home and abroad, building good will, helping families recover from disasters, stifling terrorist recruitment, erasing the next seven-trillion-dollar war, etc., over 27 years?

In 2003, 2015, and 2017, if the Forbes 400 alone donated 2.5% of their wealth into an account escrowed to cover the full-time volunteering of AWSC corps members, the peace-building investment would have totaled respectively $30,696, $75,214, and $86,786 per volunteer.

2003 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
2003 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
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Forbes 1.5% =  $52,071
Forbes 1.5% = $52,071
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Funding these peace builders and sustainability extenders is a lot cheaper than funding another million-dollar Star Wars-clad warrior.

2015 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
2015 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
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A bevy of generals like McChrystal, Zinni, Clark, etc., support having more Americans cost-effectively serve like this, because it builds the good will that erases the killing fields their soldiers must clear.

2017 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
2017 Forbes investment in AWSC world building
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Forbes 2017 $6.75B average
Forbes 2017 $6.75B average
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