In Response to the American Economic Crisis

I continue to feel very strongly that the American economic crisis involving widespread unemployment and poverty, cannot be fully solved until such time as the federal government:

(1) Takes steps to ensure that the entire United States has a truly effective and truly successful nationwide network of drug-treatment, tobacco-treatment, and alcohol-treatment programs, for which the cost of participation by any particular person addicted to an illicit drug, licit drugs, tobacco, or alcohol, is reasonable.

(2) Takes steps to ensure that as many of the health insurance programs as possible offer payment of services for enrollment in a drug-treatment, tobacco-treatment, or alcohol-treatment program.

(3) Takes steps to ensure that a truly comprehensive and well-publicized inventory of each and every natural resource found in the United States is conducted, along with semiannual or annual updates of that annual inventory.

(4) Takes steps to ensure that the entire United States is served by a comprehensive and customer-friendly recycling program that makes it very easy for any apartment tenant, home owner, condo unit owner, or business owner to participate in that recycling program on a year-round basis, with help from on-site pick-up services for each of the recyclable items --- plastics, aluminum, glass, paper, etc.

Those steps will help to comprehensively revitalize the American economy by significantly enhancing the medical health and productivity of the American workforce. Those steps will also create thousands of new jobs relating to massive expansion of recycling services throughout this nation----recycling services that also protect the military security and environment and moral credibility of this North American nation that consumes more natural resources per capita than any other nation in the entire world.