Eliminate government cafeteria facilities
I've seen many unhealthy meal options. Eliminate all government cafeteria facilities.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Stop giving away the patents on drugs created and researched by
Add your comment for Idea: Stop giving away the patents on drugs created and researched byTax payers pay for the drug research, not the drug companies, and then US customers pay top dollar for the drugs they funded.
Government should hold on to the patents for 10 years and then lease the distrubution to pharmiceutical companies.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Kill the drug trade
1 comment for Idea: Kill the drug tradeKill the drug trade by providing free injections for users. Let us learn the lesson of prohibition - it doesn't work and only empowers criminals.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Retirement Time
Stop relying solely on years and/or age for retirement. I cannot determine how many hours that I have to work each week. My job requires me to work between 60 and 84 hours per week, every week depending on need. I cannot elect to work fewer hours. How many hours should a person have to work in order to reach retirement? Others work 40 hours or less per week. Why should the number of years of service be the factor to determine ...more »
6 comments for Idea: Retirement TimeStop relying solely on years and/or age for retirement. I cannot determine how many hours that I have to work each week. My job requires me to work between 60 and 84 hours per week, every week depending on need. I cannot elect to work fewer hours. How many hours should a person have to work in order to reach retirement? Others work 40 hours or less per week. Why should the number of years of service be the factor to determine when a person reaches retirement rather than the actual amount of real time spent working? Allow a person to reach retirement earlier than is presently the norm based on required hours of service. Efficiencies and effectiveness of the workforce, including health, would improve and costs diminish.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Unattained Human Capital
Since 1995, US State Department records indicate that international adoptions by Americans had increased more than 140 percent. Couples often cited the lack of American babies as the reason for adopting from abroad. The above is from the article Born in America, adopted abroad; found at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1027/p11s01-lifp.html We are violating our US Constitution by killing humans in the womb. The infringement ...more »
2 comments for Idea: Unattained Human CapitalSince 1995, US State Department records indicate that international adoptions by Americans had increased more than 140 percent. Couples often cited the lack of American babies as the reason for adopting from abroad. The above is from the article Born in America, adopted abroad; found at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1027/p11s01-lifp.html
We are violating our US Constitution by killing humans in the womb. The infringement on life has led to manifold deficits in USA including unrealized human capital. The dead cannot compete. I suggest we restore protection of the right to life for all in society which includes the unborn.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Provide option for bicycle use reimbursements.
Save travel costs, energy costs, and increase health of federal employees by providing the option for low-cost non-motorized transportation reimbursements rather than only providing the current high cost motorized vehicle use rates. If, as an example, just a couple percent of federal employees would use bicycles that could be reimbursed at 10 cents per mile instead of 50 cents/mile for automobile use – much would be saved ...more »
4 comments for Idea: Provide option for bicycle use reimbursements.Save travel costs, energy costs, and increase health of federal employees by providing the option for low-cost non-motorized transportation reimbursements rather than only providing the current high cost motorized vehicle use rates. If, as an example, just a couple percent of federal employees would use bicycles that could be reimbursed at 10 cents per mile instead of 50 cents/mile for automobile use – much would be saved annually in various monetary/environmental/energy/sedentary costs associated with exclusive motorized vehicle usage. Those employees that are eligible for patrol assignment home to home reimbursements have a good opportunity to benefit the taxpayer (including self) and the environment by using non-motorized transport between home and duty station.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Smokefree Federal Property
2 comments for Idea: Smokefree Federal PropertyProhibit smoking on all federal property, including federal building entrances, sidewalks, parking lots, parks, etc. This will reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, reduce litter, and reduce environmental cleanup costs.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Excercise / Work Out
We should somehow encourage workers to exercise, for example: Workers should be allowed to go work-out during work hours for at most 1/2 hour paid time in a facility that is either located in their building or in a different facility that is close to their job. Or Free Gym Membership??? This is not for selfish reasons so we can all look like models. This is for health reasons. Many people sit in their cubicles all day ...more »
10 comments for Idea: Excercise / Work OutWe should somehow encourage workers to exercise, for example: Workers should be allowed to go work-out during work hours for at most 1/2 hour paid time in a facility that is either located in their building or in a different facility that is close to their job. Or Free Gym Membership??? This is not for selfish reasons so we can all look like models. This is for health reasons. Many people sit in their cubicles all day long. This makes people unhealthy, unhappy and I believe this decreases the productivity.
Maybe not necessarily the way I put it, and I don't mean to offend any one. I'm on a heavy side myself.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Smoking at Veterans administration medical centers
2 comments for Idea: Smoking at Veterans administration medical centersMandate "no smoking" at VA Medical Centers.
Cost savings: heating and maintaining smoke shaks. Reducing health costs.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Military & Veterans Health Care Consolidation
Turn "peacetime", brick & mortar, healthcare of military beneficiaries over to the VA for operation. The Secretary of Defense needs to focus on defending our country, not on managing a highly statutorily complex health program. This $54B budget should not count "against" Defense as it is an entitlement program for persons NOT defending our country (spouses, children, survivors, retirees, etc.). Multiple joint hospitals ...more »
1 comment for Idea: Military & Veterans Health Care ConsolidationTurn "peacetime", brick & mortar, healthcare of military beneficiaries over to the VA for operation. The Secretary of Defense needs to focus on defending our country, not on managing a highly statutorily complex health program. This $54B budget should not count "against" Defense as it is an entitlement program for persons NOT defending our country (spouses, children, survivors, retirees, etc.). Multiple joint hospitals have already been built (Elmendorf, Vegas, Chicago, etc.) and joint staffing has already begun at some. Maintaining two "separate" healthcare systems, yet trying to make them work together makes it increasingly obvious that we simply need to "drop the other shoe" and merge the peacetime healthcare mission. "Carve outs" obviously need to be maintained for warfighter care, deployable medicine, etc. Can't explain that all here.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Let's Move... A Healthier Federal Gov't
Michelle Obama's initiative for getting young people across the US outside and excited about exercise has been inspiring. It's time Federal Workers got inspired to exercise and "move" too. Having a healthier workforce will lower overall healthcare costs and set an example for the rest of American taxpayers. Adding bike lanes in DC and around the country, having accomodations for bike-commuters/runners, and encouraging ...more »
5 comments for Idea: Let's Move... A Healthier Federal Gov'tMichelle Obama's initiative for getting young people across the US outside and excited about exercise has been inspiring.
It's time Federal Workers got inspired to exercise and "move" too. Having a healthier workforce will lower overall healthcare costs and set an example for the rest of American taxpayers. Adding bike lanes in DC and around the country, having accomodations for bike-commuters/runners, and encouraging employees to take a 15 minute walk at lunch will make a big difference.
Let's move toward being a healthier nation.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Make the Federal Government Tobacco Free
13 comments for Idea: Make the Federal Government Tobacco FreeLet's face it--tobacco use costs our government time, money and resources.
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