http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/04/04/mlks-other-work/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:29:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/04/04/mlks-other-work/#comment-1719 Geneva Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:19:29 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/04/04/mlks-other-work/#comment-1719 A Guaranteed Llivable Income would SAVE the billions now being wasted through lost human potential, lost business due to panhandling, crimes of desperation (drug-dealing, street prostitution, petty theft) and the criminal justice and social work resources required to deal with these, poor nutrition, stress-related illness, child neglect and family violence among the working poor who are losing the struggle to "put food on their families," and contagious diseases of poverty such as TB which turn into public health menaces - to name only a few! It would also support local businesses, as each dollar would circulate several times within the community. However, a GLI might also result in an acute shortage of willing cannon fodder. A Guaranteed Llivable Income would SAVE the billions now being wasted through lost human potential, lost business due to panhandling, crimes of desperation (drug-dealing, street prostitution, petty theft) and the criminal justice and social work resources required to deal with these, poor nutrition, stress-related illness, child neglect and family violence among the working poor who are losing the struggle to “put food on their families,” and contagious diseases of poverty such as TB which turn into public health menaces - to name only a few! It would also support local businesses, as each dollar would circulate several times within the community. However, a GLI might also result in an acute shortage of willing cannon fodder.

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