What if private industry in America:
- Prioritized hiring the unemployed;
- Provided training to the untrained;
- Paid a wage that made work more attractive than welfare;
- Produced a product that was fun, exciting, and environmentally friendly;
- Made possible the influx of millions of dollars to charitable, educational and social service programs without costing the taxpayers a cent or requiring any government bureaucracy to administer;
- Offered high school and college students the opportunity to earn a respectable income and real work experience, while receiving a quality education;
- Offered to the fine workers who have lost jobs to changing demographics and technology, the training needed to re-enter the work force at no cost to the taxpayer?
The result:
- That social service agencies would have their clientele drastically reduced, thereby reducing their operating budgets which would be funded by private donation at the local level.
- Alleviate the need to be funded governmentally, removing government from the social services business and allowing it to concentrate on the business of governing.
- Job training/re-training to displaced workers, which will contribute to preserving self-esteem, the family unit, and even lessening the rising crime rate.
- Creation of an investment environment that would attract millions and millions of dollars in local projects
With the creation of Highland Light Productions Inc., I would like to show the world a model program of how private industry can dramatically impact social and economic issues of the community better than any government program that costs taxpayers money, while producing a quality product to the international marketplace. |