Extensive police work to prevent spread of violence and drugs

Proper nutritional use of food stamps with mostly true foods and a small percentage for treats

Medical clinics.

Workfare.

Emergency shelters.

WPA type programs.

Subsidized housing, range of houses depending on behavior and lifestyle of tenants.

Mandatory vocational training for every student in America, including those with Harvard buildings named after them.

Drug tests throughout school and in any state colleges.

Bully pulpits from the president on down (and I hope President Obama expands on what he is saying now) telling teens especially to quit bullying each other (hear me cute little cheerleaders), stay in school, get trained, don't vandalize property, don't join gangs (and a lot of people join for protection as a viscious circle)...

First and foremost, make it safe for people to come out of the bunkers. Make sure there is basic food and shelter (and for single folks that could be a cot in an old warehouse and leftover school lunches that are thrown away by schools). Have many many public bathrooms with showers and washing machines, staffed in part by the users themselves. Lots of stuff can be done. The City of Hope I think in LA..big huge complex..takes people off the streets, feeds them, and sends them back onto the streets cleaning up graffiti, picking up trash, and going from house to house in teams asking what do you need? Could be a new roof, or appliances moved or whatever. It is really interesting to see.

Also those microloan things are working well in other countries. We have so many regulations here, I don't know...

We have to get men back in the equation. Another vicious circle..they were essentially thrown out of their families and out of public housing and the nation has never recovered. Get them back with their families, encourage women to show respect to those who are not violent or abusive, even if they don't have great jobs...Give some parenting classes....women have learned how to raise children without fathers..not always with great results. If they truly don't want a father for their children, or can't arrange to get a good one before the biological alarm clock buzzes, they can be foster mothers or adopt. There is no excuse on the face of the earth except one that makes me think a single woman anywhere should deliberately bring a child into the world (the one exception is if husband is in combat).

Well, that is all for now. mg