Just a simple man who believes we can determine our world... I'm positive, pragmatic, kind and both passionate and compassionate. I work as a filmmaker and we are nearly finished post production on a feature film entitled The Congressman's Dinner. We hope that this film may contribute in its humble way to a possibly actualized creation of world peace both individually and collectively.
Peace, Love and sometimes Politics - People and life
Do we/can we determine our world?
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A comment on Conversation: Changing the U.S.A.'s focus from militarism to humanitarian efforts and social projects.
Is there now a 21st century paradigm shift in play as manifest by the recent Arab Spring & as seen by the work of the Global Peace Initiative, e.g? I think it is worth a discussion & could & perhaps should be recognized & addressed as part of any collectively governing body's decision making.
Wouldn’t a present day more comprehensive defense strategy be one that attacks the issue from both sides? Meaning to plan its workings more comprehensively, proactively, in serving also to help establish peace?
Call it comprehensively applied defense & that initiative centralized through a Dept of Peace, just as some of the founding fathers, & one in particular, wanted right from the beginning.
With such an initiative a very significant amount of money can be saved & applied to the humanitarian concerns as Luke suggests.
Humanitarian concerns might also bring a review of foreign aid where, among other obvious considerations, Trade vs. Aid initiatives should be considered which would be overall considerably less costly & foster considerably better feelings towards our country.
Just a thought - the State Department receives fifty-four billion dollars & the Department of Defense five hundred and eighty-three billion dollars, whereas, while bills for a US Dept of Peace are stalled presently in Congress (while there are numerous bi-partisan co-sponsors in both the House & the Senate), in February 2011 Congress cut off all funding for the US Institute of Peace (a bipartisan institute started under Ronald Reagan) which was funded at a mere forty-four million dollars…
More discussion can be found in the media platforms for our in post-production movie at www.facebook.com/Thecongressmansdinner & www.Thecongressmansdinner.com. I am certainly open to all ideas & initiatives & welcome all participation. Thanks, Bob
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