Redeeming The Homeless Part Three: Government Of, By, For The People

The Solution To Homelessness Is Easy: Let Them Grow Food

Continued from Part Two (Part One).

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. 

- Luke 12: 48b

The contextual message in the latter part of Luke 12 is very important in conceptualizing the great responsibility laid at the feet of those who currently realize an abundance of blessings: to look after their less fortunate brothers and sisters.

This abundance of blessings comes in many forms; time, education, talent, wealth, influence, power, standing, etc..

The modern citizen of the earth should be modeled after a person who considers the least of humanity as both their peer and greater than themselves.

Notice how modern governments are modeled after the concept of self-governance by way of service to others; a graduation from the prior order of worldly kings demanding service from their subjects.

The kings and queens of Today are the greatest servants of their fellow man, while impostors repeat the old manner of life (and reap the old results).

What are the new manners and how can we realize the new results?

We each have a living to work out, from the highest private or public position, to the lowest.

For those who may fall through the cracks of society, these should be treated with utmost care and consideration, much how we would like others to be considerate and caring with us were the roles reversed.

There are times that those who earn their living by market measures need little to no assistance from governments.

Sadly, the government is sometimes used by some people as a means to game the market (and leverage over their fellow man).

Imagine if government was the instrument to protect the vulnerable, instead of running the risk of exploiting them?

Government has been slowly 'evolving' into this instrument, and while some may despise this reality, others cherish this manifestation of love legislated onto the mass consciousness through lawful restrictions.

Some of us have dared to imagine such a novel idea.

Perhaps we had previously assumed this as 'reality' as children, only to see some limits or lesser ideas as adults.

How should government and those who choose to work in government approach their service to the less fortunate?

As a means to forward a career?

Absolutely not.

Rather, government should be a means to volunteer service to those who need it most.

Provide as comfortable a life experience as possible to the broken; the basic requirements humanity long enjoyed and harvested on their own prior to being brought into interdependence and subjective dependence - the city life.

Is taxes (or more taxes) the method to provide better help?

Absolutely not.

The ideas need updating, upgrading and uploading.

An update is education in self-sustenance.

Here is where food production is the key to empowerment and can be reproduced through scale.

A revolution has been realized regarding the idea that space (and much land) is needed to produce food.

An upgrade is how the living space is understood, space being found outside the four walls.

One of the many revolutionary ideas is vertical food production the city.

Another revolutionary concept is the response to overconsumption and consumerism found with the Tiny House movement.

Read about a $1 per square foot rent-to-own program that empowers the poor with the concept of asset ownership.

Smaller spaces means smaller energy consumption and more space for either food production or productivity in general.

The upload is implementing the newer ideas and eliminating the old ideas that have either alienated, stigmatized or humiliated the poor, homeless and broken.

Here is a decent example of a government employee (and government program) that is implementing new ideas of drawing the homeless and encouraging them in the redemption process.

Continued in Part Four.