The Time Has Come For The Four Day Work Week

More and more government entities are shifting to the four day work week to cut costs. Cities like El Paso  and states like Utah and California are experimenting with the concept. And initial findings are promising; the financial savings are real, especially in the cost for energy.

Even automaker GM is exploring the idea of adopting the practice of a four day work week. But what if there was a widespread adoption of the four day work week? What would be the effect on our economy? Our society? The environment?

Here are some ideas to think about.

September 12th, 2009 | Tags: | 3 Comments »

Here Is A Health Care Insurance System That Really Will Work

As Congress continues to debate the future of health care and as the President makes yet another compromise to motivate legislators to produce a bill he can sign, no one in the real word really knows what health care proposals are under consideration and which ones are off the table.

Meanwhile, every, and any, lobbyist who has the slightest financial, political, or religious stake in this history-shaping legislation is pulling out all the stops to make sure the new health care system is shaped in their image. Some have adopted a fear mongering “scorched Earth” approach, hoping that the average American will be so confused that they will demand nothing be done. But (using a double negative to make a point) we cannot allow “nothing to be done” because America already pays more for health care than any other nation in the developed world.

This article is not going to recount the nightmares associated with the current system if you can call it a “system.” You can go anywhere else for that. Rather, here are honest to gosh solutions. With health care, we go forward, and here’s how we do it.

September 9th, 2009 | 10 Comments »