Long story short: tell the Washington Post to cover Social Security better, tell local governments to start embracing public safety departments over police departments, and tell our government to protect the wildlife in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Social Security Works helps you tell the Washington Post to correct its reporting about the recent Social Security Trustees report. At the beginning of the week the Post said “Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a decade,” though at the end of the week the Post said “Social Security will not run out of money” as long as payroll taxes come in; I guess that’s better in the aggregate than their normal one-sided hysteria, but they still haven’t corrected the original report, so it’s not good enough, and we’ll never get “good enough” unless we demand it.
VERA helps you tell local governments to embrace the civilian-led public safety department model over the police department model like the one that’s working in Albuquerque. We too often treat police officers like Swiss Army knives, demanding they be armed warriors and social workers at the same time when no one can do such a thing, and then after another incident of preventable police brutality, we say just get them more training when we would do better limiting their tasks to serving warrants and making arrests. No, they shouldn’t even be getting kittens out of trees! We have animal welfare workers for that!
Finally, the Center for Biological Diversity helps you tell our Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from a proposed titanium oxide mine. Our laws grant our government the ability to reserve water for the various species living in the Refuge (which include at least three species protected by the Endangered Species Act), but the proposed mine would threaten water levels there, meaning it would threaten the wildlife there. Brook no chest-beating about how nobody can make any money because of onerous regulations. This is America, the can-do country; if we can’t do things the right way, we deserve annihilation.
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