{"id":406,"date":"2006-01-04T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-01-04T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:05:56","slug":"11-o6-to-1406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"1\/1\/ o6 to 1\/4\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Years day I talked with Kingsport, Tennessee’s John Andrivilli about an idea we propose about taxes. That is, we believe each citizen should be able to designate where at least 25% of their tax money should go (to environmental programs, or social programs, or the military…). Andrivilli then proposed that one contingency in being able to do this is that the person has to demonstrate they voted in the last election for their area. This, he believed, would increase voter turn out, which of late in the U.S., is often not more than 50% in a given precinct… In Dayton, Tennessee the next day, I sat in on a talk by an Army Lieutenant who was recently back from Afghanistan. He said in the first democratic election for president of that country, some 80% of the voters — amidst threats of violence, and so on — came out to vote. The lieutenant said one man who was paralyzed, was carried by his two sons in a mile long <\/em>line to vote. Also, the lieutenant (who asked his name not be used) said some Provincional Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan would go up into the rural villages with doctors. “For some people, this will be the only time they see a doctor (in their lifetime),” said the lieutenant… In Dalton, Georgia on our next stop, I told The Daily Citizen <\/em>reporter Charles Robert that we wanted to see equal access to quality health care for all in this country. (And we want the same for all in the Third World.)… Then in Rome, Georgia, we met with Tom and Shana Farmer, both doctors out of Duke University’s Medical School. In somewhat of a ‘think tank’ session with the Farmers, an idea emerged that we’ve decided to plug into our position paper on Health Care. That is under a new Health Care Plan, the Federal Government would uniformally pay for the cost of: X-Ray machines, vaccines, lab equipment, etc. in each region of the country– so there would be parity between the poorer and richer states. Likewise, a regional tax would subsidize some of the costs for doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. And in addition, we propose more quality, volunteer-staffed Free Clinics, “Community Pharmacies,” and so on, to help those without health insurance in an area. Why we don’t propose a National Health Care System across the board, like in Canada, is because this system would take away a lot of the incentive and opportunity for people to volunteer. And in this volunteer scenario, not only do the poor get help, but conversely, those volunteering benefit as much, if not more — spiritually. Note: <\/strong>Tom Farmer has been an ardent supporter of our campaign. He said when people ask him about us, he smiles and replies: “It’s the kind of campaign where I had to have the (“Joe Schriner for President 2008″) bumper stickers made up myself.” (Yes, we continue to be unfettered by big money.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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