You can help the United States reduce its national debt sanely and in ways
that actually help people.
It is well proven in almost every government and public endeavor----from
chronic disease to juvenile delinquency to maintaining infrastructure---that good prevention generates
enormous savings. Prevention improves lives and communities instead of leaving the gaps and collapse
that desperate, last minute “savings” through service slashes so often leave.
Right now, the National Debt Commission (formally known as the National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform)---which is empowered to make major recommendations
to lower the national debt---is meeting to form a plan to be finalized by December.
Join us in assuring that PREVENTION is central to how the United States
sees and frames its overall idea of debt reduction.
The linked article, A
Prevention Model for Reducing the Federal Debt while Doing Social Good by Neil
Wollman will give an extraordinary and concise overview of the possibilities for prevention
--- a win-win of savings and progress!
There are two things you can do.
- You may email the Debt Commission at commission@fc.eop.gov
and urge the Commission to recommend that the President issue an Executive Order for all federal
Departments and Agencies to make “prevention-based savings” a guiding principle of their programming
and budgeting.
- And, you may email your own ideas for savings through prevention to the Debt Commission;
where possible, please back up your ideas with reference to a published study or other documented
support, giving them more power!
And, if you wish to be listed as officially endorsing the work of P.$: The
Prevention $aves Coalition, please email me at
chrisnorwood@healthpeople.org.
