Clifford Said:

How many of these problems will be solved by adding more people?

We Answered:

The greatest problem is that real solutions would require economic collapse or acts more horrible than we want to imagine:

According to Steven Colbert, you could feed the homeless unemployed to the starving children and most of these problems would be solved.

An epidemic would indeed solve our health care problems. Our problem is that we stopped having really deadly epidemics like Spanish Influenza and Smallpox, resulting in rapid population growth. Now we have more people to feed than our infrastructure can EFFICIENTLY handle. Oh, you might say there's a capacity to create the food, but distribute it effectively? Have meaningful jobs waiting for all these new people? No. The problem is that as a species we're anticipating something like Swine Flu to cure most of these problems and we hunker down like it's going to be horrible (we've experienced a whole - oh, God, NO - TEN deaths!), but then it never happens because modern medicine beats it. And then BAM, problems from more people than we can effectively handle. It's not that we can't improve the infrastructure, but it's on such a massive scale that, by the time it gets done, the population has already grown past the new infrastructure's capability.

Completely unsolvable is poverty. The definition of poverty exists on a sliding scale, so you can never eliminate "poverty."

Meanwhile, some of these problems are the result of our national culture's personal problems:

* Greed and selfishness
* Unrealistic assessments of our creativity
* Refusal to improve because "everything is so perfect!"
* Ineffective and insubstantial investments in education, like "Sure, we'll invest in Math education!" and then there's nothing to back that statement up on the student level.
* A preference for apathy in terms of helping others, but enthusiasm for entertainment.
* Pompous assumptions that because things are going great for oneself that everyone else ought to stop complaining (Starving? So why don't they eat cake?)
* Expensive extended adventures in foreign wars.

If this doesn't sound familiar, this also describes Rome before their empire crashed and France before their bloody revolution. Granted, it's not quite THAT bad, but it's getting there. But if that happens, these issues will be compounded - for a while - and then get better, assuming a weapon is not released that exterminates all human life. In THAT narrow scenario, YES(!), you can add more people to these ranks and things will get better! (After the war, famine, and pestilence have had their way.)

Terrence Said:

who is advocating for mental health?

We Answered:

The Treatment Advocacy Center advocates for mental health consumers in all states, including Ohio. Check them out at: http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/i…

For more information, I would check out your local NAMI chapter: http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section…

Good Luck!

Shannon Said:

What are some good ideas for an Advocacy Project?

We Answered:

To Help Haiti, ex.

To Educate the Children
To Bring Jobs
To Clean The Streets
By Bringing attention to the crisis
By Showing the World through Photos, Video, Articles, etc . .

Haiti is really in Bad Shape and U.S. doesn't do enough to help.

Dustin Said:

What real experience (not self serving or self promoting) is Hillary Clinton talking about?

We Answered:

In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. During this period of time she became familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, and is now
completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move.
Does this sounds idiotic and unbelievable to you? Well, Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qual ified to be President and 50% of democrats polled agreed. She has never run a City, County, or State.

When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8-years in the White House, Dick Morris stated, 'So has the pastry chef.'

Arthur Said:

Health question, can you check my answers?

We Answered:

Makes sense to me