Utah Is on Track to End Homelessness by 2015 With This One Simple Idea

[Demo_Chris]

95. I think we need to move away from the "buying in" mindset...

Health care should be discussed and reformed as something that is a fundamental human right. Obviously it must be paid for in some way, but this should be viewed as a necessity of society, much in the way we view National Defense or Public Education. These are considered collective responsibilities.

President Obama asked whether we wanted a society in which we were all in this together or alone. I vote together, not simply because this benefits me and my family, but because it benefits society. I would argue that you can hardly call it a society if, having the capacity to care for each other, we elect not to do so.

We need a new enlightenment. The last enlightenment brought us to the industrial age and the triumph and power of machines and capitalism, this new one needs to bring us to the human age. We can solve these problems: healthcare and food and housing and pollution and human rights and all the rest, but we cannot solve them using the old mechanisms and motivations of an obsolete society. We need to start again, and I think (or hope) that people are ready to do that.