What if Obama gave this speech tomorrow night? How would you react?
Good evening. One year from today, there will not be a single homeless person in the United States of America. Not without a choice for shelter. Not without a choice for food. Not without access to health care. Not without publicly accessible transportation. Not without access to education or employment if either is so desired. Every American will be allowed to become who they want to become and the U.S. government will serve in any way possible to make that happen.
The citizens of the United States are amazing human beings. They are capable of doing so much if they receive the support and resources they need to make it in life, to make something of life. There are engineers out there who don't know how to take even the first steps toward engineering. We will show them the way. There are artists who haven't had the support to develop their skills or display, sell, or share their art. We will create programs to serve states and regions around the country to provide live-work spaces, materials, resources, equipment, and distribution to allow artists and aspiring artists to learn, create, share, eat, sleep, and live well.
The same will be true for those who want to work in the health care fields or wish to invent new technologies or products or desire to live and work as journalists or builders or plumbers or computer programmers or anything else at all.
Those who want to sit for the next three years twiddling their thumbs while not pursuing creative, entrepreneurial, educational, or employment-related opportunities can do so. But only in exchange for eating a nutritionally healthy diet and regular exercise. Both activities will be monitored. Hey, if you want food, shelter, health care, transportation, and the like and you don't want to pay or contribute toward it at all? Well, the least you can do is conform to certain rules and regulations and, let's face it, these things are good for you. Yes, your body will be tested and monitored--while protecting your privacy--to ensure that you are eating properly, getting enough exercise, and plenty of sleep every night. We will provide all of the support you need to transition to a healthier, more fulfilling lifestyle. We want you to be healthy and happy. We don't want you to turn to a life of crime and violence or to overburden the health care system because you have decided to waste your life away eating Doritos and drinking Big Gulps. I know you have problems. That's why you'll have all the support and encouragement you need. We will customize this support as needed, learn together on the way, and transform lives of cynicism, self-loathing, and despair into lives worth living within a civilization worthy of life.
You need help. Some more than others. The government will help you. Your life will become better than you ever imagined it could be. The best of you will become great. The least of you will become good. The United States, as a whole, will become a better place to live with citizens the envy of the world in their caring, generosity, passion, ambitions, health, learning, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and creativity. A new age with human beings who have not only transcended class but transcended prior conceptions for the best of what humanity could become.
We will be a light on a hill and the government will make it happen. No more will we give away your hard earned money to corrupt corporations and institutions who provide so little to humanity. We will improve everything and we will improve the lives of every human being. This will happen.
There will be grumblings. Howls of discontent, of resistance, of protest. But we will prevail. I will not let the poor be abandoned because it displeases wealth. It is time for those with the most to help and serve the least. They need it. They have always needed it. It's time to shift values, attitudes, and ethics. It's time to end purely selfish pursuits and spend time helping those who clearly need help. There will be time for leisure for everyone, including those helping others. No one will want for playful fun, exciting adventures, or relaxed peace and quiet.
That means those in the most desperate circumstances will have loans forgiven. No one will lose their home to foreclosure. New homes will be built for those without homes. Homes sitting empty will be used in the coming months to provide shelter for families who have lost their homes in the past and for those who have never had homes. No home shall sit empty. Those whose businesses are negatively affected by these changes will be provided resources and support in the same manner available to all citizens. If your business is no longer viable or even necessary, then opportunities such as those I mentioned before will be available. Everyone benefits.
Except for those with extreme wealth. It's not that they will live lesser lifestyles, it's just that they will not be privileged in terms of political power any longer and economic policies will not be changed for their benefit, but for the benefit of all.
Furthermore, to deal with the growing immigration problems, the U.S. government will work with governments around the world to implement such a system everywhere else in the world. Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, China, India, the Middle East, Central America, Russia, you name it, it will happen. Those countries considered to be developed will work with countries with extreme poverty and unrest to heal wounds, ease tensions, develop infrastructure, and provide relief. With a focus on environmental sustainability and universal human rights there will be nothing that cannot be accomplished. This is now the mission of the United States and the world. We can end global poverty and violence and we can do it by providing a floor below which no one will ever be allowed to fall.
Thank you.
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