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the politicians behind closed doors, not the lobbyists. The public. That's the important part. Regular people, just experts, citizens, people who care. And try to get them over the next year to come up with their three best plans. It could be two Democrat plans, one Republican. It doesn't matter. But just the very best. And then commit in advance the Congress and the president to, let's say you d…
← Previous segment →we can't solve it is that we don't have project managers. That's the thing that's missing. Here's what I mean. Do we have enough billionaires and/or government funding to test some different solutions for the so-called homeless problem that really is a people problem? And the answer is we do. We do have. We have billionaires who are literally saying I've got billions of dollars. If you can give me one good idea I'll give you some money to test it. That's easy, believe it or not, the money part.
And remember that's the mark of the Golden Age. We don't have a resource shortage. What we have is a system problem. And the system is lacking a project manager. I'm using project manager very loosely for somebody who can put together a plan. Maybe it's a plan informed by Dr. Drew's ideas. Maybe it's a plan informed by, and locally here there's a Delancey Street project. Delancey Street anyway it's a rehab facility that works really well.
Maybe somebody could say hey that one works really well. I'll be your project manager. I need a billionaire or a government fund to fund it. And then that will be my job to try to implement this in a new state and it will be a test. And I'll make sure that we're measuring everything so we know if it worked. And then there are a few other project managers getting other money from other billionaires and they do their separate project. They say hey we'll take these blocks in LA. We might need some help from the government suspending some regulations or something because we're just going to test. Give us a year and we'll tell you what happened.
Now until you see something like a project manager profession form around trying these social goods and until you hear the names of people and see them on TV saying hey yes I
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'm running something. Let me tell you about it. You know I already have the money from a couple of billionaires. So that's what you can see with the so-called homeless problem that's not a homeless problem. You can see people stepping up and saying I will be your project manager. You know and I've got this experience. Who can fund me? And then the funding will happen. I can almost guarantee the fu…
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