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    New Years Resolution: Solve Americas Biggest Problem, End up Bitter and Cynical
    New Years Resolution: Solve Americas Biggest Problem, End up Bitter and Cynical
    New Years Resolution: Solve Americas Biggest Problem, End up Bitter and Cynical
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    New Years Resolution: Solve Americas Biggest Problem, End up Bitter and Cynical

    By Stephen Simac

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    I wrote this series in 2005 for the Coastal Post, a Marin county monthly newspaper, an icon of the Free Press in the SF Bay Area that published my articles and columns from 1990 until its untimely demise in 2010. This series was written as a Walter Mitty adventure tale in a stream of consciousness style based on several manic clients I'd evaluated as a psychiatric crisis clinician. They were always the most interesting and quotable in my case notes, with their pressured speech, quick slants down field, leaping receptions and absolute conviction about their concepts. You might say that sounds like all my writing, but this was deliberate. My sister said it was the funniest articles I ever wrote, or at least shared with her, so that's an endorsement.
    The first article in this series was the seed concept for my book on reforming health care, Save Trillions with Universal Health Care. This first New Year's health care solution was a little more twisted, as are those for affordable housing and healthy transportation. I've developed more evidence based solutions for these too included in Lose Weight, Save Money. and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases.
    I've edited the series from those original articles to tighten it up and match Smashwords format. I've included scanned illustrations from different versions of Peter Pan. The cover image is from an adventure in Oz illustration, I forget which book. This is an experiment to see whether smashwords grinds up images.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Simac
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781311581020
    New Years Resolution: Solve Americas Biggest Problem, End up Bitter and Cynical
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    Stephen Simac

    I have been researching and writing about health and wellness for thirty five years. I have a masters degree in integral health studies, extensive knowledge of nutrition, supplements, exercise and years of practice in a variety of healing, recovery and stress reduction techniques. My focus is on individual and public wellness promotion and this book is the result of an idea for health care reform that prioritizes improving health rather than treating preventable illness and injury.

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      New Years Resolution - Stephen Simac

      Smashwords Edition, 2017

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      Author of the smashword premium e-books in the Medical Monopoly Series , Save Trillions with Universal Health Care, Cancer Cathedral: Prevention is the Cure and Mandatory and Vaccination = Totalitarian Inoculation

      Lose Weight, Save Money, and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases,

      Text Copyright 2017 Stephen Simac

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment and education. Some Rights Reserved, [license_3.0] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. For more information, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Working as a psychiatric crisis clinician. Season of Mania sets in. Writing about Solutions to America's Biggest Problems in a style that conveys the delusion of believing in rational systemic transformation in the U.S.A.

      Chapter 1: Beautiful Dreamers for a New Millennium Our hero makes a New Year's Resolution: Solve America's Biggest Problems, or at least the ones he can. He's never kept a resolution before, but this time he can't sleep. His first mission Fix the Health Care System.

      Chapter 2: Affordable Housing, An Idea Whose Time has Past Hexagonal homeless cells, reinforced trailer parks and reengineering an ancient miracle of concrete for a modern world. CrapKrete makes a house a home.

      Chapter 3:The Siren Wails for Thee: Safer Roads for All Traffic's a mass killer nobody wants to think about. Except for our hero transforming the carnage of our roads. His safer car morphs into enclosed tricycles with electric motor assist.

      Chapter 4: Viva the Velorution! The SafetyCycle! Rides Again A short history of cycling and transportation trends in the 20th century. Peter Pan bus trip to Washington D.C.

      Chapter 5 The Peter Pan Principle in D.C. It's hard to make headway in a sea of apathy. Walking breeds ideas for better sidewalks, crosswalks and PR stunts.

      Chapter 6 Despair sets in. Fear and Self Loathing. Then our Hero strikes paydirt as a lobbyist for Clean Coal. Not really, but it's what sells in Foggy Bottom.

      Chapter 6: Derailled in Washington. Be the Change! Despair sets in. Fear and Self Loathing attack but are beaten back. Striking the Mother Lode in Foggy Bottom. Off to the Rainbow Gathering.

      Introduction:

      I wrote this series as an amusing rant by a visionary idealist with one crackpot idea after another. He sets off on a manic trip to Washington D.C. to solve America's Biggest problems, but ends up bitter and cynical. He's all about saving the planet, changing the world and transforming America into a healthier, cheaper and friendlier place, until he realizes that Americans just aren't into that.

      In serial fashion he lays out his grandiose ideas about health care, affordable housing and safer transportation as he follows his bliss into the . The originals appeared in the Coastal Post, a Marin county monthly newspaper in 2005 the months listed, still viewable on line the last time I looked. They say nothing is ever lost on the internet, unless you stop paying your host.

      The CP was an icon of the Free Press in the SF Bay

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