Hospitals & Asylums
November 2011
By Anthony J.
Sanders
Occupy Ashland Report on Occupy Wall
St.: The American Fall HA-11-11-11
I
hope you find time to read the full report on Occupy. After bearing
ridicule, $420 for three weeks rent and witness to the fifth homicide in nine
years; I completed a report on the Declaration
of the Occupation of New York, with photos, just in time for
Thanksgiving. In Ashland the 24 hour
occupation ended on October 29 when the police cleared the Plaza although the
General Assembly continues to meet in the Plaza, Wednesday at 6pm and Saturday
at 2pm, weather permitting. There is
much for the survivors to be thankful for.
For instance, I saved $1,000 in two months camping and Occupy is eligible for philanthropic
non-profit contributions for social justice.
A nonviolent world revolution in political camping has been a dream of
mine since before I sponsored two camping on campus nights in 1999. Camping all month is certainly the only way
to save any money on disability. There
is no campsite more dearly beloved to the denizens of Ashland woods than the
century old tradition of free camping in Lithia Park, discontinued in the 1960s
when the capitalist Mt. Ashland ski resort was developed. The current U.S. Forest Service approved Mt.
Ashland ski expansion, has been criticized by environmentalists as damaging to
the Ashland watershed and the Rogue Group Sierra Club won an appeal for federal
injunction, but Community Alternative (Alternative 5) is expected to go
forward. To do the Ashland watershed
justice it is proposed to fuse the homeless issue, which Occupy Ashland strongly supports, although there is no longer a 24
hour occupation to entertain the homeless, nor a regular homeless shelter for
that matter, with the legal representation of the Ashland watershed, to create
a safe winter camp close to town and summer camp at the swimming hole,
residents could be proud to invite tourists to.
To correct the economic distortion caused by market subsidies Occupy has encouraged some 650,000
people nationwide to move their money from bailed out big banks to local banks
and credit unions to stop the flight of capital into multinational corporations
with a colonial agenda. Troubled Asset
Relief Program (TARP) repayments must be accounted for as General Fund
revenues. To recover the estimated $1.2
trillion in damages caused by the $475 billion TARP to small corporations and
homeowners States should likewise reinvest their funds in local financial
institutions and people. Recovery Act
funds have distorted the budgets of the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) that must return to within 3 percent annual growth from FY 2008, when
U.S. medical spending was the highest in the world, from $911 billion to $780
billion; Transportation Department (TD) from $120 billion to $75 billion; and
the Education Department (ED) whose college tuition distorting subsidies began
with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 from $75 billion to $50 billion, to
balance the federal budget. The 16th
draft Bicentennial Revolution of the Constitution of Hospitals & Asylums
Non-Governmental Economy (CHANGE)
is renumbered with an athletic scholarship for the sedentary - sets of 10 pull-ups and/or 100 push-ups and sit-ups between
Chapters, 10km run daily and marathon on the Sabbath to qualify for office.
Book 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
To transfer Chapter 1 Navy
Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospitals, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Other §1-40
to Chapter 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home §400-435. The Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) houses
approximately 1,600 veterans at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home (USSAH in
Washington D.C. and the U.S. Naval Home (USNH) in Gulfport, Mississippi.
At an average age of 76, the largest percentage of residents, 80% are WWII
veterans, 30% in Korea and 10% in Vietnam. The average length of stay is
10.6 years. The Naval Home was established in the Naval Hospitals Act of
Feb. 26, 1811 by Paul Hamilton of South Carolina, secretary of the Navy, under
President James Madison. The charter was to provide a permanent asylum
for old and disabled naval officers, seamen and Marines. The Naval Home
was however not officially opened until 1834 after James Fillebrown,
Secretary of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals appealed his embezzlement
conviction to the Supreme Court in 1833, it was known as the Naval Asylum until
the name was changed to the Naval Home in 1880. The Soldier’s Home was
established in 1851, as an asylum for old and disabled veterans. It was
at the Soldier’s Home that President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation
Proclamation. The Soldiers’ Home began admitting airmen in 1917 and
officially changed its name to Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home in 1972. The
Naval Home was initially funded by contributions from the active force. This
contribution was augmented by all fines imposed upon persons of the Navy and
was the principal source of monies for the Naval Hospital Fund/Pension Fund.
The Pension Fund also received all money accruing from the sale of prizes of
war. For nearly 100 years these monies funded the Naval Home. In 1934,
the Pension Fund was abolished by Congress and the proceeds were deposited into
the U.S. Treasury. From 1935 until 1991, the Naval Home was funded by Navy
appropriations. Today, it is funded by monthly withholding from active duty
troops, fines and forfeitures, interest off the Trust Fund and resident
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