The new president, William James Adams, continued. “Until further notice and until all of the homeless have been taken care of, all foreign aid will be halted and the money will go to the homeless solution. Also $841 billion a year goes to our national defense budget. This is a necessary program to protect our American people. However, we will be taking 25% of the defense budget, $210 billion to also put into the homeless solution. We have robbed social security long enough and it is time we gave back to our seniors. They worked long and hard to set aside their money into social security so they would have security in their old age. I for one think we should honor their decisions.
This is an executive order and is effective immediately! We will keep you informed with monthly updates as to the progress made. At the first monthly meeting, there will be a question and answer session, at which time we will be in a better position to answer your questions.
I look forward to working with you all and I believe we can change things for the better. For those who are skeptical, I say just give it a chance! Good night and God bless you all!”
Quite a variety of reactions happened. The homeless people who had heard the president’s address were cheering cautiously, not knowing whether to believe these plans would really work. The men and women employed in the department of the defense for the most part had a shocked look on their faces. One general said to another general, “Can he really do that? Can he take away our money and give it to those indigents? Shouldn’t he look somewhere else for the money?” One of the men working closely around the new president said, “We need to double our security for the president and the White House. It is inevitable that there will be some kind of attack on him and we need to be prepared.”
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Alice, who used to serve food at the mission in Portland, stood looking at the TV in the cafeteria that she and Roy worked in now and said, “I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t heard it and seen it for myself! Did you hear what the president said he was going to do for the homeless?” she asked the person whose water she was refilling. And then she answered her own question, “Of course you did! You were watching it right alongside me! This is going to give the homeless people another chance at life! But the thing that surprised me the most was that he will give the addicts a real fighting chance. It still doesn’t seem right that he will kill them if they don’t cooperate, but what else can he do?”
Roy came up while she was talking and he said, “Most of the addicts are spoiled brats and if they don’t clean up in six months, they deserve to die!”
Alice looked at him, shocked and said, “How can you say such a thing? You are being heartless!”
Roy said, “It is just like when you teach children. They have to know there will be consequences for their actions or you are not going to get anywhere with them. If the addicts know they are fighting for their lives, they will be more likely to truly reform.”
Alice said, “Well when you put it that way, it does make a lot of sense!”
After hearing the President’s address, the city of Portland decided ahead of the February meeting that because of the President’s high accolades, Lenny Parson’s plans would be the way they would go. Lenny was more than happy and began the very next morning. He was going to live up to the President’s expectations and realized that he would have visitors from other cities studying his plans in order to emulate them! What a position to be in!
Not everybody was as happy. There were murmurs in the White House of dissent.