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Peacestar Defense Waste Reduction Initiative
The Peacestar Defense Waste Reduction Initiative is
designed to encourage defense department employees to identify
inefficient departmental expenditures and correct them. Participating
employees would be motivated by a monetary incentive derived from a
portion of their adopted suggestion’s first year savings. The remaining
balance of the suggestion’s saving would be divided between bolstering
the general defense budget and funding international development through
the proposed International Peace Superfund. This program would encourage
robust efficiency within the Defense Department while providing a way to
fund the International Peace Superfund without raising taxes or
diminishing our current defense posture. Successful models of employee
incentive suggestion programs currently exist within many private sector
businesses. There are three main elements that form this proposed
initiative.
1.) Defense department employees are encouraged to
submit cost saving suggestions within their business units. Each
employee submission is reviewed by a suggestion committee and
recommended for adoption or rejection based on a set of predetermined
parameters. If the suggestion is adopted, a first year “estimated
savings calculation” is established. The employee is then eligible for a
one time award of ten percent, up to ten thousand dollars, of the
projected first year savings.
2.) Based on the “estimated savings calculation” a
contribution is made to the International Peace Superfund. This
contribution would be made annually, for a period of five years from the
time the employee suggestion in implemented.
3.) The remaining balance of the savings would be
returned to the general defense budget This annual contribution would
continue indefinitely, allowing for enhancement of traditional defense
programs.
Independent defense contractors could join the Defense
Waste Reduction Initiative, expanding the benefits of the program to the
entire military supplier industry. In addition, as the concepts of the
International Peacestar Project proliferate in the United States, our
government could strongly encourage all developed countries to
participate, creating a truly international effort to improve and
stabilize our world.
There are many benefits to implementing such a program.
The redirected suggestion funds into the IPSF would
help create a new dimension to future defense strategy. International
Peace Superfund resources would be directed towards feeding the hungry,
funding new educational programs and providing powerful new market
incentives to the worlds most needy. This could redefine the meaning of
what constitutes an effective defense, by planting seeds of hope for
millions living hopeless conditions.
New business opportunities would be created for
industries supporting the IPSF objectives. New jobs would be created in
donor as well as recipient countries in the agricultural, engineering,
education, consulting and transportation industries. These new
opportunities would stimulate our own economy while helping alleviate
poverty around the world. Over time, new markets could emerge for our
products as underdeveloped countries become contributing members of the
world economy.
World views of the United States and other major world
democracies would begin to change in positive ways as the benefits of
the International Peace Superfund begin to impact the world. This could
contribute to a new stabilizing trend, decreasing the instability that
can lead to war.
The International Peacestar Project could provide hope and
opportunity to the world’s poor while contributing to a new definition
of what constitutes an effective defense, as we move into the
twenty-first century.
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