What is the process to develop an economic policy that provides services and sustainability?

Week Thirteen - What is the process to develop an economic policy that provides services and sustainability?

There needs to be compromise involved in any process that develops an economic policy that provides service and sustainability. Everyone needs to give a little bit.  As with any successful relationship, there is a give-take compromise. Both sides need to make things want to work out. The people giving the services and the people receiving the services need to make agreements. In my opinion, for something to be sustainable, you have to give a little bit up; you have to apply to delayed gratification.





I think that there also needs to be an understanding that you cannot get something for nothing. If people are expecting services and sustainability from the government, then they need to provide funds to the government that allows the to have a decent budget. It's a balance!


I have recently been working with a charity called Lift Up America. I was invited to speak at their most recent event in Phoenix earlier this month. It was such an incredible experience. Though Lift Up America doesn't directly receive funds from the government, they work directly with organizations that do. In my opinion, the cool thing about LUA is that they go to different cities and work with the pre-existing non-profit organizations in the city. They work with empowerment programs for under-privileged youth.  But they empower these children by, among other things and taskts, asking them to go out into their community and to make it better. The first hand out they get is an expecation to give someone else a hand up. To make someone else's world better. And it was amazing to witness the change in the children when they are given the power and the control to make a positive change in their community. It was so re-assuring for me to see an organization like this that functions on the give-take relationship. That acknowledges that life is a compromise. (for more information and for a full picture of what LUA does, please! visit www.liftupamerica.com)

If I make a grocery list that has apples, bread, and milk on it. And if I know that the apples cost three dollars, the bread costs two and the milk five, that I need to go to the store with at least ten dollars or I won't be able to get what I need. It's unrealistic for me to go to the store with eight and expect to still get the same "services" from the store. People can't do that with the government.



There is a cost to living in America. There is a cost to drive on the highways, to have our food inspected, to have police officers. It's not free. People need to realize if they want to function as a member of society, that they need to pay into the pot before they can take out of it.

People need to sort out their priorities, what does the economic policy need to include? Then they need to bite the bullet and front the money to support the economic policy that used to be that of the American Dream.