But we're not done yet. Let's recruit some progressive
companies. Get them involved in this project and have them negotiate with
localities, just as Amazon did, getting the localities to come up with funds or
financing given in exchange for bringing new business to the area. Get the
companies to bring in, altogether, $520 million in concessions. Then have those
companies give the blue immigrants jobs. This will be attractive to localities
because the new workers will spend money in local businesses and pay local
taxes. Get the blue businesses to pay the health care costs and half the moving costs and salary for the blue immigrants. The businesses get a great deal and that cuts the costs of the 37,500 couples to
$30,000 and from $3 billion to $1.125 billion. Apply that to option 2 group and that cost
could drop from $1.5 billion to $600 million.
That brings the cost down to $2.6 billion, or about $15,800
per person. Think of it in political
terms. That would be about $260 million per senate seat and throw in governors
for free But it should be permanent and could lead to elimination of
gerrymandering and taking control of state houses and winning of some, perhaps
even many more US congressional seats. Spread the cost over 20 years and we're
looking at an annual cost per senator of $13 million. Some senate races raise twice that much. And
since this is not a direct political donation, there are no limits on how much
donors can give.
Those are numbers that it is realistic to hope to raise from
billionaires and other donors. Even
better, it can be done in steps, starting with the lower cost projects. In
option one. This is not a plan that will
happen overnight, but it's doable--a lot easier than sending people to Mars. And
time is on our side. Young people are voting more blue, so it will get easier
to do and could make this a model that could work elsewhere to.
This is a first pass at playing with this idea. And I'm not the first. What do you think?
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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