Absolutely any human being should be able to submit a report (by any means, such as through telephone, e-mail, etc.) to a public agency responsible for keeping a database of all types of aesthetic pollution or blemishes in existence on and around public infrastructures.

Law enforcement institutions and those working closely with them who are responsible for handing the punishment of lawbreakers such as prisons, correctional facilities, fine collection agencies, etc., should also be responsible for organizing and operating a system that trains and matches willing eligible criminals currently going through the criminal justice system with properly performing jobs geared to the elimination of such aesthetic blemishes, especially around areas frequented by tourists. These criminal workers would be paid for their labor, and these payments would go towards paying for all costs associated with their crimes, including any punitive penalties imposed.

Such jobs may include things like patching and painting chipped, cracked or damaged curbs, sidewalks, walls, etc., repair scratches on everything in public view, cleaning graffiti and doing normal cleaning of everything in public view, especially street signs, pulling weeds, sweeping gutters, maintaining gardens in parks or on road island strips and grassy areas, removing gum spots on sidewalks, etc. All such jobs would be related to improving (mainly aesthetically) public infrastructures. Maybe they could also be assigned to monitoring public surveillance cameras searching for people committing crimes such as littering or writing graffiti. Another job could be to pull out and destroy harmful exotic plants and maybe even capture undesirable animals from the environment. The work could also consist of things like cleaning public (or private) property, pulling out exotic/damaging species of life, gardening/landscaping, sifting garbage for recycling, etc. One example, could be cutting the grass of a local public park. Even greater pay could be offered to workers if they are able to use their own machinery, such as lawnmower, in this example.

Many methods can be used to choose which workers should do which jobs, and the workers who bid lowest would get the jobs. All of the worker’s earnings would go to pay off the fine for his crime.

Work through this organization would be available primarily to people who have broken the law, not to the general public. However, other people may apply to do the same jobs through this organization, but they would be able to work and receive pay through this organization only if an insufficient number of criminals are available.

The government should maintain a comprehensive listing of job availability for anyone to search through. All kinds of jobs should be listed here, from the mundane, low-skilled ones to the high-skilled ones. Part-time, full-time and even micro-working and micro-volunteering job opportunities should be listed. Employers should be able to post reviews of their current or former employees so that other employers could get a better feeling for what kind of potential employee that person would be.  Employees should also be able to post reviews of their current or former employers, as well.

People looking to work the next day should be able to search this database the night before and register for one of the listed job opportunities. Each job opportunity would have a fairly detailed description of the type of work involved. Potential registrants would be told what time to arrive and how the pay is structured. Information on how to dress, what to bring (tools, clothing, etc.) etc., could be found within this database.

Pay could be structured either as hourly pay, or pay per unit of work completed. Pay would be fairly low to discourage people from maintaining these jobs indefinitely, though pay would not be in violation of applicable minimum wage laws.

Ideally, at least most of these jobs should be flexible enough to enable the usage of an unreliable and potentially widely fluctuating labor force. A worker could work for only one day or any number of days and could choose which days to works.

Local governments should set up permanent concentrated dwelling structures for homeless people in scattered areas (nooks and crannies) around both urban and suburban areas, such as on freeway embankments (or half buried in them), next to freeway on- and off-ramps, near railroad tracks or even on abandoned railroad track land, etc. The requirements for living in these units would be that a person must be homeless and without relatives or friends willing to take that person in to live with them.

These dwellings should be designed and constructed for durability, ease of cleaning, and aesthetic simplicity. They may be constructed similar to ‘Public Storage’ spaces, (side-by-side units) in order to take up less space and use fewer materials. Maybe there could be bunk units built on top of other units. All these units would be very small, just enough floor space for a small bed (a folding bed would make more space) and a small chair. Each unit would have one metered electrical outlet. Each unit would be about 7 feet tall from floor to ceiling, maybe 6 feet wide and 8 feet long. There would be a door at one end and maybe a small window at the other end, or maybe just the door could have a window. Communal restroom and shower facilities should be located at each homeless settlement, each user should be charged for each use, either financially or by banking their work.

Prospective tenants would have to promise to keep their own unit neat and clean, and commit to help keep the whole facility neat and clean. Each user would be required to clean the facilities they use after each use. Each tenant must agree to work fulltime in some task, even if it is just to provide as much time as necessary to keeping a certain number of city blocks free from litter, graffiti, and other aesthetic pollution. Failure to follow these rules would result in heavy fines and/or expulsion from living in such a place.

Each of these sites would have a fulltime supervisor on the premises to make sure everything is fine, the area is neat and clean, the residents are working when and where they are supposed to, that behavior standards are met, etc.

Every neighborhood should have at least one area, perhaps one city block, devoted to housing for the elderly. This could be a combination of independent living, assisted living, continuing care and even nursing care all on the same block. It could even serve as a minor first aid storage and service center for the neighborhood which would become invaluable during times of disaster or emergency. Such a block would be completely surrounded with a pleasant fence for security.

At least part of these blocks would be dedicated to independent living for the elderly with individual, miniature, one-room houses with dimensions as small as 10′ x 10′ to 15′ x 15′. Such houses would be designed for individuals (slightly larger ones could be made for elderly couples) and would include everything necessary to live comfortably inside, such as a bathroom, kitchen, bed, table, TV, etc. Outside each dwelling a small garden can be maintained by the resident.

Social activity centers, such as pools, recreation rooms, exercise rooms, libraries, work/hobby shops, etc., could be constructed on these blocks. Elderly labor could also be used to operate mini museums which would display interesting things from around the neighborhood as well as photos of past events or significant changes occurring in the neighborhood in the near or distant past.

Any person who is not statistically likely to become a good, adequate, competent, or fitting parent or member of society should be encouraged, but not forced, to become sterilized in exchange for a significant amount of money. The amount of money offered would depend upon the degree of undesirability of the individual being considered, their age and other specifically relevant facts. This program should generally be limited to criminals who are drug addicts, alcoholics, gang members, violent people, sexual criminals, etc. Repeat offenders would be offered the highest amount of money. Also, people who are addicted to any type of substance or activity that may pose a relatively high risk of injury to a child (whether born or unborn) should be eligible for this program.

Not everybody would be eligible to participate in this program. The amount of money offered to each eligible individual should range between the thousands and up to the high tens of thousands of dollars depending upon their degree of undesirability. The amount of compensation offered would decrease as the person’s age increases. In other words, younger people would be compensated far more than older people. The rate of decrease would be steeper for women than for men, and it would perhaps be eliminated for women beyond menopause while men would continue to be offered some relatively small compensation if they decided at a relatively old age that they wanted (and qualified) for sterilization. (General idea from Barbara Harris 10-24-97)

Other people with a high risk of reproductive harm should also be encouraged to avoid reproduction due. Such people could include workers with hazardous occupations leading to exposure to harmful chemical with high risk of reproductive harm.

Individuals receiving financial assistance from any level of government and using that financial assistance to buy illegal products (drugs, etc.) or conduct illegal activities (donating to terrorist groups, etc.), or placing themselves or others into an illegal state of being (drunk, etc.) should be charged not only for the actual offense but also for using government funds in the process. The penalties would be based on the actual facts of each case but could be set by the courts at a rate of several cents per government-funded dollar used. The penalty assessed would be as if the criminal individual stole an equivalent amount of money (as was used to purchase the drugs, for example) from the government. Thus, a charge of theft of that amount would be levied.

Individuals on a government financial assistance program (receiving some kind of welfare) should never get straight cash payments or money without strings attached. They should be prohibited from purchasing ‘luxuries’ as defined by that government agency or state, unless exempted by the funding agreement. For example, getting their hair professionally styled, nails manicured, subscribing to cable TV, participating in gambling, buying the latest model phone, and other such things would be some examples of ‘luxuries’ whose purchases would be prohibited while on government financial assistance.

Governments should be responsible for ensuring that every human being’s death that occurs or is found within its jurisdiction be completely and accurately recorded so that a useful record is constructed and maintained for potential future reference and study. At a minimum, these records should include the location and circumstances of where and how the body was found, DNA samples, estimated time of death, physical description of body (gender, height, hair color, etc.), and other basic information. This information should be kept for at least 100 years. Attempts should be made to contact the next of kin. A central database should be set up so that authorities anywhere in the country could help match the dead with relatives who come asking for them.

All people who find lost things should make a reasonable effort to find their rightful owners or turn the lost items over to a government ‘Lost and Found’ agency immediately. If they don’t make a reasonable effort within a reasonable length of time, they should be charged with theft.

The governments of every political jurisdiction should operate a ‘Lost and Found’ department in which people could submit and search for items that were lost within that jurisdiction. All these lost and found departments should be linked to form at least county-wide databases that people could search through.

Any person claiming to have lost an item should be required to provide additional information that only the true owner would know about that item. In addition, relevant identification information should be required of every person who physically reclaims an item so that if, by any chance, the true original loser of the item shows up to reclaim it after an impostor had already taken the item, the impostor would be able to be located and punished while the item (or compensation for it) could be given to its rightful owner.

People who come to reclaim items should be charged a small fee, maybe $10 for this service.

Pet owners should be required to obtain licenses for their cats, dogs, birds, and all kinds of exotic animals and should be required to renew them every year or two. Common animals like cats and dogs should be required to get sterilized (spayed/neutered) or pay an additional annual fee for each year in which it continues not being neutered. Exotic, unusually large, or notably dangerous pets should require a special license and payment of an additional fee. Common fish, unless they are unusually large or pose a significant threat to any nearby ecosystem if released, should not require licensing.

As a condition of licensing any pet, pictures and DNA samples of these animals should be taken and kept on file with the animal’s registration/licensing papers so that a connection between an owner and their pet could be made in the event the pet ever became lost or for whatever other reason a connection needs to be made. This DNA record would also help the government identify and prosecute pet owners who may have illegally released their pets (such as snakes, alligators, etc.) into the wild or local ecosystem.

There should be an internet website consisting of a database of people/entities that are willing to donate and accept all kinds of things. People would be able to type in what they are donating, and a list of seekers would automatically pop up, and vice versa.

US citizens should be obligated by law to truthfully fill out or otherwise complete government surveys at most once every five years. These surveys should consist of 100 questions, at most, including essay questions. Before beginning the survey, participants should be educated about the importance of such surveys for learning about social trends and their influence on future government decisions. People should be given very flexible timeframes in which to complete the survey, such as a one month window of time.

These surveys should focus mainly on constructing snapshots of major social opinions and identifying long term social trends or events with significant influences. Questions with real relevance to policy making should be the only kinds of questions allowed. These surveys should not be about short-term, partisan political, trivial, minor, or unimportant things. The building of accurate, long-term, consistent, and comparable records should be the highest priority of these surveys.

The results of the surveys should be made public as soon as possible after the data has been collected and assembled. Anonymity should be guaranteed to the survey takers. Care should be taken to not duplicate work done in the private sector or by other organizations.

Participants should be adequately compensated for their time and efforts.

Every level and/or agency of government should provide a means by which any individual could easily communicate to that level or agency of government, via the internet, suggestions for how to do things better, disgust or praise of certain policies, their own opinions, inform on criminal activities, submit complaints about any annoying behavior of neighbors, or any information a person may think the government may need to know in order to improve services, maintain order, or generally make for a happier community. Anonymous submissions would be allowed. Confidentiality should be guaranteed to everyone who makes a submission and requests anonymity. This would provide an important means by which the public could vent and by which that government level or agency could gauge public attitudes concerning them and rectify or modify their behavior or policies. The public should be encouraged to perform their civic duty and submit their ideas for how to make governments and society function better.

Police should give people, whose cars have been crashed or impounded, rides to their homes or other requested locations so they are not left stranded on the street. Police should offer these rides for free or for a nominal cost to locations which are generally less than 10 minutes away. Apart from saving the person in need time and money, this would also increase the level of communication between the person in need and law enforcement. To locations which are farther away, the police may call a taxi for the driver of the impounded car and if they don’t have money on them or readily accessible within a short distance (such as from an ATM machine), the police should pay the taxi fare up to $20.