BREAK,BREAK,BREAK - Veteran Down: Restore Stability!!

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Christopher George's The Solution Series.
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Today's podcast, Break, Break, Break, Veteran Down,
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Restore Stability, is about a new plan,
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you know, keeping with my podcast motto, I have a solution for the veteran problem,
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and I want to introduce it to people before the start of the new year,
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keep it on people's minds, Make it a New Year's resolution for you,
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if need be, to get this moving.
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And I'll explain the plan in detail, but bottom line up front,
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it's called the Veterans Civic Renewal Compact.
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And what it is, is a blueprint that gives veterans a base of operations again.
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It's based off a permanent land donation or agreement of permanent purpose,
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a permanent community built and managed and governed by veterans.
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And from that stable ground, veterans just don't take care of veterans.
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We help stabilize the communities around us, too. We recycle.
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We grow food. We build housing systems that can scale. We create jobs.
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We relieve pressure where the system is breaking and we model what it looks
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like when integrity and structure aren't words when they are daily life.
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And I want to be crystal clear. This isn't about separating from society.
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This is about becoming a resource to society, organized, accountable and mission
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focused, because that's what veterans are trained to do. All right.
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Before I get into it, I want to kind of do my little my little opening, you know, narrative.
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I always give before I do a podcast because I always want to kind of set expectations,
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not just for this podcast, but for what I think future leadership should look like.
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What I'm trying to do with my podcast is really reset the standard for what
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that expectation from leadership and also from the audience,
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because I think we need to be a little bit more informed on what we what we
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what we make critical decisions on, you know, what our future should be,
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what our future should look like. We need to be more involved in that.
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So, you know, I believe leadership isn't just about talking.
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Leadership isn't just pointing out what's wrong. Leadership comes prepared with a plan.
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And not a lot of noise, and the courage to talk about it openly.
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The plan I bring isn't rigid. It's strong enough to move us forward and flexible
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enough to improve through focused conversation.
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Because the best plan will always be the one shaped by the most thoughtful input.
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And that's the expectation in my podcast.
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This space is for discussion, but discussion with a purpose.
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If you engage, I ask you please be direct, be respectful, Focus your energy
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on the plan. If you see a flaw, bring a fix.
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If you have a what if, bring a solution with it.
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Noise doesn't move us forward. Thought your contribution does.
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This podcast is about America, but it's not limited to America.
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We live in a connected world. Many of the solutions discussed here can be applied anywhere.
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People are working to build stability, dignity, and opportunity.
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My goal is to help America lead again, not by force, but by example,
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so others can adapt what works for their own communities.
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And let me be clear about something I deeply believe.
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I believe there is always a nugget of truth and experience and insight in every person.
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There's something valuable, something learned, something earned,
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something seen from a perspective no one else has.
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That's why I welcome everyone to the table.
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Without you, there is no us. Without shared experience, there is no progress.
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But with that welcome comes responsibility, people. Those insights and experiences
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aren't meant to build, but not to tear down.
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They're meant to build, not to tear down. to strengthen ideas,
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not sabotage them, to move us closer to solutions, not deeper into divisions.
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This is about evolution, evolution as a country, evolution as a people, evolution as a world.
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Our tools are more powerful than they've ever been in history,
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our ability to build, but our ability to destroy also.
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That means we have a greater responsibility to do better, to think deeper, to lead smarter.
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To work towards a peace that works for us, for everyone, not just a few.
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To appreciate this beautiful planet that was given to us.
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That's the expectation. That's the standard.
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Now we can talk about this subject.
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All right. First of all, I want to thank wherever you're coming from.
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I want to thank you for being here.
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I know to sit down and stop doing what you're doing in your daily life.
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It's a lot for a lot of us. We've got a lot going on. We've got a lot of other
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priorities, but I thank you for being here. I'm progressive thinking.
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I don't like labels. I'm not red. I'm not blue. I'm not green. I'm an American.
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I'm a human trying to fix the world.
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No labels, please. Just somebody trying to make a difference.
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The plans I put together, I don't care if I get famous. You think you can do it?
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I just ask you, okay, Chris, what do you think about this? It's just like I'm
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asking you because, you know, they are designed for people. And I want to make
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sure that they stay for people and not for, you know, somebody's pocket. All right.
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Why this episode exists, you know, I want to start today by saying this clearly.
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This episode is not about gratitude.
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Oh, wait, wait, wait, before I start. It's the day, it's the second day after Christmas.
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Yesterday was my sister's birthday, and I just want to wish her a happy birthday.
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She's a very, you know, with all my accomplishments in the military,
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25 years in the military, first as an enlisted and then as an officer.
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I feel she's way stronger than me because she had to, you know,
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you know, to all those women out there who taking care of their moms,
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you know, and late in life.
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Hey, much respect to you. You know, much love to you. I send all my strength
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and power out to you because I understand it's a hard job.
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You know, and I just want to tell my young sister, you know,
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I love you and I appreciate you.
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You're probably one of the strongest people I know. And I'm trying to get her
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to write a book about her life story because it is I've been all over the world.
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Her life story is very unique. All right.
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But I just want to wish her happy birthday. So thanks. Thanks for listening,
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guys. And thanks for letting me take the time to do that.
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But here I go. You know, like I said, I want to start to start today by saying this clearly.
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This episode isn't about gratitude. It's not about sympathy.
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It's not about nostalgia. This episode is about solutions, as usual, solutions.
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Because every Veterans Day, we hear the same words. Thank you for your service.
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And those words matter, but they're not enough because after the parades in
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and the speeches stop, we still have veterans sleeping on the bridges.
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We have veterans aging alone. We have disconnected veterans.
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We have underutilized, oh, really underutilized veterans and drifting in a country
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they want protected with their lives.
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That's not a veteran problem. That's an American problem.
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So today, in keeping with the Christopher George Solution Series,
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I want to do something different. I want to present a fully thought out,
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reasoned and achievable plan not to help veterans survive, but to help America evolve.
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This is the Veteran Civic Renewal Compact. You know, like typical military fashion,
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I need to give you a vision.
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So if you can, close your eyes a little bit and just listen to the sound of my voice.
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Imagine, if you will, a drone rises over a wide sunlit stretch of American land.
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Real terrain, real topography, not flat cartoon map.
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You see hills, tree lines, and a town laid out with intention.
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At the center, a towering flagpole, a massive American flag moving slowly and steady in the wind.
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Not as decoration, but as a statement. This place is about the land,
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the people, and the promise.
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Now the camera dips lower and you realize this isn't a typical neighborhood.
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You're looking at a veteran-built, veteran-managed community designed with modern
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intelligence and old-school discipline.
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The homes are AI-designed, templated, elegant, next-gen tiny homes.
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Not sheds, not trailers. These are clean, durable, and architectural homes made
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from hardened, recycled composites, mostly off-white with warm brown structural assets,
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different layouts and rooflines, some with small second-level lofts.
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Beautiful, tough, practical.
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The kind of housing that makes you think, why aren't we building like this everywhere?
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You notice something else. The town is walkable by design. No one is stranded.
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Multiple community dining facilities built from the same material palette as
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the homes are spaced across the town like acres walk within walking distance.
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Not because people can't cook, but because a shared table keeps a community
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stitched together. It creates jobs.
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It ensures nobody quietly goes hungry. It turns living near each other into living with each other.
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Then the drone swings wide to the infrastructure, because this isn't a feel-good idea, it's a system.
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On the edge of town, a large multi-level structure, clean, modern,
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industrial, an indoor farming complex spanning several acres,
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not a garden, a real food engine, hydroponics, aquaponics, controlled climate,
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year-round yield, enough to feed the town and produce surplus.
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On another edge, a heavy-duty industrial recycling facility,
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also modern and clean, with organized container yards, plastic sorted,
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shredded, processed, molded, feeded directly into housing and community construction.
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This isn't recycling bottles to feel better. This is turning waste into permanent infrastructure.
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Homes, walls, walkways, community, buildings, plus surplus material.
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They can be shipped out to help rebuild nearby civilian neighborhoods too.
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And yes, part of the vision is training civilians alongside veterans So this
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model spreads outward, not inward.
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Now the camera tilts up and you see what makes this place different from every
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program America has tried.
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You see green energy everywhere.
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Solar fields positioned for efficiency.
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Wind where the terrain allows. Battery storage. Microgrid thinking.
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And for water resilience, a standardized AWG, atmospheric water generation,
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pulling system from the air as a backup and stabilizer, especially in heat drown prone regions.
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The goal is simple, minimal footprint, maximum reliability, a town that runs
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bright and clean like any modern city without living dependent and fragile.
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And then you see the human layout, because this is where leadership shows up.
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There are clearly designed residential zones, family neighborhoods,
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space, parks, safer street patterns, single veteran neighborhoods,
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smaller footprint, tighter walk loops, elder and assisted living clusters near
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the wellness center, a visible community clinic and wellness hub,
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because prevention and routine are culture here, not an afterthought.
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Toward the heart of the town is something that changes the entire moral math of this project.
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A protected and family zone for foster youth and for survivor families escaping domestic abuse.
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Designed for calm, safety, and stability. Close to the school. Close to the clinic.
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Controlled access. Clear boundaries. You don't mix chaos into the middle and
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hope it works. You design safety into the blueprint.
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Kids aren't being turned into soldiers. that being erased around adults who
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show up, keep their word, and live by standards.
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And then further towards the town entrance, because realism matters,
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you see a structured, staged, homeless transition lane.
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It's intentionally layered, closest to the outer gate intake stabilization,
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deeper in transitional living, deeper still, permanent placement for those who commit to standards.
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Not punishment, not humiliation, just a responsible vetting pathway that protects
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the town while giving people a real shot at rebuilding.
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Standards are clear. Help is real. Progress is measurable. And all through it,
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what you feel is not military, it's coordinated.
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This community is designed for a population that understands leadership, teamwork, and mission.
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Veterans are used to shared responsibility, used to planning,
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used to building systems that don't collapse when feelings change.
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That mindset, applied to housing, food, wellness, and community order,
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doesn't just help veterans.
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It models a healthier way to live. So when people ask, what is the Veterans
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Civic Renewal Compact? This is the answer.
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It's a network of points of light across the United States.
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Places where veterans can finally stop drifting, start rebuilding,
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and bring others into stability without losing accountability.
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A town that doesn't just house people, a town that restores people.
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And it all starts with one simple truth.
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Give veterans the land and we'll build the rest.
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You know, since I've been out of the military in the last, got out in 2015,
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you know, it's a transition for us.
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So if your whole adult life has been spent in the military, you're used to being
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taken care of, taken care of in the way of housing, you know,
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food, your reliability and all that kind of stuff.
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They make it very simple for you to be a soldier, focus on your job, be the best you can be.
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And that's one of the reasons we have one of the best militaries in the world.
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You know, but when you get out, you start looking around, you're going through the veteran system.
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You know, and I was on both ends. I started off as an enlisted guy and then
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went in as, you know, transitioned to an officer.
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So I learned how to be a follower and I learned how to lead.
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And then I get out and it's regardless of how big a rank you've got,
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it's almost like you're being you're getting handouts from the from the from
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the government, you know, for your service. And.
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So, you know, I've been through the VA, you know, they're doing the best they can.
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They're doing the best they can. I'm just going to leave it at that.
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Based on that, I got I got I got some I got some, you know, some fixes for that coming out later on.
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But, you know, it's it's almost like, you know, it's almost like a handout.
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And, you know, veterans and I'll talk about this as I get more into this.
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But we're a very unique population, you know, very, very unique.
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But before I do all that, you know, let me let me we'll get into that.
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You know, I just wanted to give my personal perspective that helped me shape
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this so you can kind of understand where I'm coming from.
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So the mission of this Veterans Civic Renewal Compact that I'm about to talk
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about, guys, is, you know, one, restore civic responsibility through service,
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shared standards and public accountability.
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You know, I believe that giving veterans land will help in letting us manage it.
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It's a beautiful thing. You know, it restores dignity, stability and purpose
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by empowering veterans to rebuild communities on permanently designated land
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under veteran land governance.
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You know, it ends veteran homelessness through permanent and transitional housing pathways.
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You know, if there's a veteran homeless person, what I imagine and this is this is real talk, guys.
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What I envision if we if we establish these places in all over the United States,
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I envision getting some kind of contract with Uber, those guys that drive.
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And every time they see a veteran, just pick just pick them up and bring them
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to our location and we'll pay for it. But we'll get we'll take care of them.
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That's what I envision. All right. That's what I mean.
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Build sustainable communities rooted in service, discipline,
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shared accountability and self-sufficiency.
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You know, we'll strengthen communities at scale by providing by proving integrity,
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structure and compassion can coexist. And then the last mission piece is extend responsible report.
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We're partnered and capacity tested to foster youth survivors of domestic abuse
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and homeless individuals who agree to community standards, you know.
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Just to make sure you guys understand, when I talk about dealing with youth
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and all that kind of stuff, I'm talking about having required licensed people
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and doing all the government background checks and all that kind of stuff.
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Just to make sure people understand, I'm not trying to create another ped ring.
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I believe I'll get into that.
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This is for more the civilians and maybe even for the veterans too who maybe
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haven't sat down and just thought about it. Why are veterans different?
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So we've come from a world where things are clear. Housing was like I mentioned
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earlier, housing was planned.
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Food was accounted for. Medical care was nearby. Purpose was assumed.
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Standards were non-negotiable, not because it was perfect, but because people
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depended on one another.
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Because failure didn't just cost money, it cost lives.
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Because integrity wasn't a slogan, it was enforced by reality.
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Then we stepped into the civilian world, a world where everything is transactional,
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where everything is fragmented, where the default answer is figure it out yourself.
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Some do, some don't. And the ones who don't fall hard.
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And let me be very honest about something, because dancing around this doesn't help anyone.
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You know, like I said, we are a unique population, not better,
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not worse, just different.
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We choose service. We choose self-sacrifice. We signed our names knowing that
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costs might be our bodies, our minds, our lives, our families.
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That mindset, true commitment to something larger than yourself is rare in modern
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civilian life. Let's just face it, guys. It's rare.
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Hell, none of you guys, most of the people listening to this, think about it.
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You still see it in pockets, firefighters, teachers, nurses.
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Certain government professionals.
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But outside of that, most of the system is driven by the dollar.
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And I'm not condemning capitalism. Let's understand that. I understand it. I lived in it.
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But when everything becomes about profit, when integrity, honor,
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and responsibility become optional, something vital breaks.
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What veterans struggle with when we come home isn't freedom.
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It's the absence of shared values.
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It's the feeling that nobody is guarding the center anymore and nobody is responsible for the whole.
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That everyone is watching, their neighbor, instead of watching the mission.
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And when we point that out, we're told you'll be fine. You'll adjust.
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You don't have your structure anymore. You know, so here's the truth.
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If the structure no longer exists, then we'll build our own.
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Not because we're anti-American. not because we're being deeply unapologetically American.
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I said that wrong, not because we're anti-American, but because we are being
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deeply unapologetically American. That was a good one.
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America was never meant to be a free for all. It was meant to be a union,
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a system where people with different beliefs, backgrounds and identities could
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still agree on one thing.
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We are responsible for each other.
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I'm not asking anyone to believe what I believe. I don't care what God you worship
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or whether you worship one at all.
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But what I do care, whether you believe we owe each other decency,
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safety, and a future worth handing to our children, that belief is what veterans are trained in.
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Within the scope of our jobs, we learn to sacrifice for one another.
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We learn to support people we didn't choose.
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We learn to look past race, politics, class, and ego because the mission demands it.
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That doesn't make us saints, but it does make us system thinkers.
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And when we come home and see society where integrity is optional.
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Honor is mocked, and unity is treated like weakness, it makes a lot of us physically sick.
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Not angry, physically sick. So understand this.
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The Veterans Civic Renewal Compact isn't about separating from America.
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Once again, I keep saying that because I need some of you to understand that.
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It's about showing America what leadership looks like again.
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It's about creating a space where values aren't performative.
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The practice, where people live side by side, not because they agree on everything,
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but because they agree to act with respect, discipline, and responsibility.
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We don't have it perfect, but I do think if you look around,
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if you get a chance to go visit a military post that has housing and stuff like
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that, I do believe we have it better than what I'm seeing right now when I drive around.
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There's a reason everybody has a gated community.
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And maybe just maybe if we build it right, others will look at it and remember
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what it feels like to live in a society where people are trying to do the right
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thing, not because it's profitable, but because it's right.
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That's what this podcast is all about. Not gratitude, not charity,
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but once again, leadership.
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You know, the core idea of this whole plan is the land. Land changes everything.
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Everything in this plan starts with land. You know, most veteran programs operate
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on permission, temporary housing, short term grants, civilian run systems.
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That doesn't create stability. It creates dependency. That's what I was talking
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about earlier. It feels like we're getting handouts.
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The veteran civic renewal compact is different.
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This is about large tracts of land, entire towns, permanently set aside,
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owned collectively by veterans, governed by veterans, protected by covenant
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so they cannot be taken back or politicized.
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You know, I had a chance to work with the Air Force engineering department.
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Engineering facility center in San Antonio and got exposed to the BRAC program.
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The BRAC program, if you haven't heard
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of it, it's base realignment and construction or something like that.
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I figure what it is. But they manage all the closed out military bases.
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Even back then, I was thinking about, I said, why haven't we turned one of these
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bases into a pure veteran base.
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And we can invite civilians. We can invite the Walmarts or whatever.
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Depending on how big the place is, we can invite different businesses on that
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structure to support the veterans and stuff like that.
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So this is not about one house, not about one program. It's about communities.
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I believe when veterans own the land, we can build long-term,
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We can plan generationally.
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And we can invest in infrastructure, not stopgaps. Land is not charity.
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Land would be independence.
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Why I believe the veterans are uniquely equipped for this. And this is where
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people often misunderstand veterans.
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We're not better than civilians. We're not worse. We're different.
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A football player is better than me at football. A surgeon is better than me at surgery.
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But what veterans are good at are operating in complex systems,
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making decisions that affect groups of people, manning the logistics under pressure,
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balancing risks, safety, and mission success.
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America spent billions training us to think this way. This plan simply redirects
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that investment back into society.
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Every veteran civic, every VCRC is designed to be productive, not passive.
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At the core of each The community is indoor farming and aquaponics. Why?
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Because food security is foundational.
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You cannot stabilize people who don't know where their next meal is coming from.
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Veterans already understand production cycles, rationing, redundancy, maintenance.
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Indoor farming gives us a year-round option to create food.
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You know, these systems feed the community first. They reduce dependency on
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external supply chains, and they generate surplus produced for sale or barter.
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Just as important, they provide routine and purpose.
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Idle hands destroy morale. Purpose restores it.
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Now, let's talk about the piece that ties everything together, the recycling.
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And I want to be clear here. This is not symbolic recycling.
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This is not about bottles and cans. This is industrial scale recycling.
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And here's where, you know, here's where AI is already shown, showing us the way.
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Artificial intelligence is currently generating housing designs made from plastic
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composites that look better than many traditional homes, are more energy efficient,
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resist floods, wind, heat, and corrosion, and last decades with minimal maintenance.
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These aren't shelters. These are beautiful modern homes.
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What's missing is a system to build them at scale. That's where the veteran
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civic renewal compact becomes powerful.
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Each place we designate or installation becomes a recycling hub,
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a manufacturing site, a housing production center, new job titles.
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You know, if we get these connected all across the United States,
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we could even create a little infrastructure where people can go train people
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at new locations to get them up to speed and stuff like that.
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You know, this could be huge.
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Veterans recycle plastic and materials to build their own homes and create surplus.
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That surplus can be stored, transported, used to build future veteran towns,
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deployed into civilian communities, disaster zones, and low-income housing areas.
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This turned veteran communities into something entirely new,
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a national regeneration engine.
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Once the veteran system is established, civilians can be brought in and trained
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alongside veterans to build these homes.
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Now we're not just producing housing, we're exporting skills,
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jobs, and dignity back into society.
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That's how you break cycles. This plan is not just exclusive.
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It is structured and structure allows inclusion without chaos.
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Every veteran civic renewal compact is more than just housing.
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It's a protected environment intentionally designed for people who have lived too long in chaos.
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It includes dedicated foster youth component, a structured permanent option
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for individuals experiencing homelessness, a safe residential zone for abused
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women and their children separated from threat and instability.
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This is what I see in this vision. This is not accidental. It's strategic.
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Veterans understand something that modern systems too often forget.
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Compassion without structure fails. Structure without compassion hardens.
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And I could be honest with you guys. I don't know of too many veterans who wouldn't
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want to pick up the mission of taking care of the foster youth and providing
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that environment for them.
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And I'm not trying to make them into little military soldiers and provide a future.
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I'm talking about providing them a safe place, even with the abused women and everything.
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You need both or you help no one.
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Research consistently shows survivors of domestic violence, they are returned
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again and again into unstable environments.
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Foster youth who age out without stable housing are far more likely to experience
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homelessness, incarceration, long-term unemployment.
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Survivors of domestic violence often return to abusive situations because safe
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long-term alternatives don't exist.
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Chronic homelessness persists not because people refuse help,
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but because help is temporary, conditional, and fragmented.
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What these populations need first is not therapy, employment, or independence.
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They need safety, predictability, and time. That is what the veteran communities could provide.
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You know, children without families don't need to be fixed. They need adults
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who show up every day, as I was going to get alluded to earlier.
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Veteran communities could provide routine without intimidation,
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accountability without cruelty, presence without abandonment.
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I guarantee you there'll be no kids missing school on this place.
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This is not about turning kids into soldiers. It's about giving them something they've really had.
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Adults who keep their word. Clear expectations.
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A community where people look out for one another.
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Homeless individuals who enter the Veterans Civic Renewal Compact are not treated
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as problems to be managed, but it's people who need to be grounded.
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They receive permanent residence,
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Hold on one second. Let me pause for one second. Okay, they receive permanent
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residence, not transitional beds, access to meaningful work, scale to ability,
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medical and mental health support, predictable routines that reduce anxiety and relapse.
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Not everyone can do everything, and that's okay.
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Veterans understand teams. Some build, some mentor, some heal, some rest.
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What matters is belonging and knowing that your presence is accounted for.
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And your absence would be noticed.
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Research on homelessness consistently shows that permanent supportive housing
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dramatically reduces emergency care costs, incarceration rates,
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and long-term dependency, not because it lowers standards, because it removes chaos.
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For abused women and children, safety is not a luxury. It is a prerequisite for healing.
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The Veteran Civic Renewal provides physical security residential zones,
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separation from predatory or destabilizing influences, communities where protection
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is cultural, not performative.
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Veterans are trained to recognize threat, respect boundaries,
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and protect vulnerable people without escalating conflict.
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A refurbished military installation, properly redesigned, offers exactly what
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survivors need most, controlled access, clear rules, calm authority,
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no tolerance or intimidation.
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This is not punishment. This is protection. And protection allows people to breathe again.
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You know, veterans don't romanticize drama. You know, we don't trivialize it either.
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We understand that safety is not created by slogans. It's created by environment,
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behavior, and consistency.
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We know how to live among people from different backgrounds,
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belief, histories, because we already have.
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And we know that order does not mean oppression. It means people can sleep at night.
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You know, what I'm presenting here, this model, this integration model does something rare.
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It protects without isolating. It stabilizes without warehousing.
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It restores dignity without pretending pain doesn't exist.
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It doesn't ask traumatized people to immediately perform normalcy.
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And it gives them the space to recover from it.
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And it gives America something it desperately needs right now.
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Communities that prove safety, structure and passion can coexist.
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Like I keep saying, this is not charity. This is leadership.
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You know, let's talk about health care, because this is where the system is.
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You know, I'm not going to say
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it's breaking, but this is a system that constantly needs to be updated.
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And as, you know, modernization happens, it needs to be helped modernization here.
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And I don't think people truly understand when you say veteran,
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you have people from wars that actually that fought.
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You have people who've been in for two years, four years, five across the spectrum.
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They're called veterans.
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So that's a lot of people, you know, possibly going under this veteran health care system.
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You know, let's just say plainly, the VA is a little overwhelmed.
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Everyone knows it. Veterans know it. Families know it. Providers know it. You know.
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And this is important. The Veterans Civic Renewal Compact is not a replacement for the VA.
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It's not competition. It's not criticism. It's support.
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What I'm proposing here is something that the military has always done well.
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Distributed care, care that's local, continuous, human, and rooted in community
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instead of bureaucracy.
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Every veteran civic renewal includes an on-site medical and wellness facility,
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staffed in large part retiring veteran nurses, corpsmen and medics,
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medical officers and healthcare specialists.
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People who already understand veterans, not from a textbook,
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but from lived experience.
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People who want to keep serving without burning, without burning out,
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without drowning in paperwork, without losing the human side of medicine.
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But here's the part that civilians often miss. And this matters.
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Just creating this community is already a mental health intervention.
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Veterans heal better around other veterans. That's not opinion.
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It's lived reality. It's supported by research.
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Studies consistently show that peer-based veteran support improves PTSD outcomes.
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Group cohesion reduces isolation, depression, and suicide risk.
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Regular physical activity, especially in a structured group setting,
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significantly improves mood regulation, sleep, and cognitive function.
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Veterans understand routine. Veterans understand accountability.
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Veterans understand that movement. I can almost hear. I can see it now.
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I just close my eyes and see it now.
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Every morning it's 630. Get up, up.
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Get up, up. Get up, up.
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Get on up. Get up. Get up now. Get on up. Just a little taste.
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You put back and you put veterans back in an environment where people wake up
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early together. Physical training is normalized.
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Morning cadence runs happen because people want them. Exercise is social, not isolating.
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And you've already done half the work. Mental health clinics struggle to do.
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This isn't about yelling or boot camp nonsense. It's about shared momentum.
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Movement regulates the nervous system. Routine stabilizes the mind.
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Belonging restores purpose.
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That's not motivational talk. That's neuroscience.
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And there's another truth people avoid talking about. People dealing with mental
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health challenges often do better when they are not alone in their experience.
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Veterans know this instinctively. When someone struggling with PTSD,
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depression, anxiety, or moral injury is surrounded by others who get it,
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who don't flinch, don't judge, don't minimize, something powerful happens.
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Medication compliance improves. Therapy participation increases.
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Relapse rates decrease.
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Early warning signs are noticed sooner because veterans look out for each other.
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This isn't a hospital ward. This is a community with eyes on each other.
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And that kind of environment doesn't replace professional care.
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It makes professional care more effective.
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You know, the medical wellness centers within each of these civic renewal areas,
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they'll focus on primary and preventive care, mental health support and counseling,
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rehabilitation and physical therapy, elder care and mobility support,
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and medication management and follow-up, handled locally, consistently, and with dignity.
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That means fewer emergency room visits, fewer crisis interventions,
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fewer missed appointments, less pressure on VA hospitals and clinics.
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The VA gets breathing room. Veterans get continuity.
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That's that's not just compassionate. That's smart system design.
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Veterans taking care of veterans again.
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You know, this model that I'm trying to put together affects something we already know works.
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You know, in uniform, we never waited for help to come from somewhere else.
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We took care of our own right there, right then, right now.
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The Veterans Civic Renewal Compact brings that ethic home.
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It allows veterans to age with dignity, healed with support,
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stay active longer, serve in ways that fit their abilities.
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You know, and it gives the country something real to stand behind.
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Not another promise, not another ribbon, but a working solution.
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If people truly want to help veterans, this is how you do it,
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guys. You don't just say thank you.
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You give us the ability to build environments where veterans can thrive again. That's what this is.
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You know, they beat a Chris. The next question is, Chris, how is this going
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to be governed? Who's going to manage it?
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You know, is the government going to manage it?
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You know, these communities cannot be fragmatized or politicized.
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And I'm just put that up front.
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That's why this plan, and I already see it up front, includes a National Veterans
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Homeowners Association, something like HOA, run by veterans,
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owned by veterans, elected by veterans, you know, location to be determined
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and headquartered to be determined.
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And, you know, its role is to maintain standards across states,
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protect land veterans, protect land covenants, ensure their fair treatment,
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prevent exploitation, preserve mission integrity,
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liaison with government, state and local officials.
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You know, uniformity matters in the veteran world because veterans deserve consistency.
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We don't want to be held accountable to some man on a mission to save some history,
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historic, you know, belief or whatever the case may be. You know, this ain't about that.
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You know, this is governance by those who understand the population,
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not by outsiders guessing.
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You know, at this point, people say, Chris, this sounds idealistic. It's not.
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This plan does not only rely on perfect people.
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This plan does not rely on perfect people or endless funding. of political unity.
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It relies on land, trust, and structure.
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Veterans already know how to live collectively, work rotational schedules,
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resolve conflict internally, and govern themselves.
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Nothing here requires reinventing human behavior. It requires using what already works.
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You know, like I said, when I first thought about this and it was Veterans Day,
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you know, like I said, I don't want to give another speech.
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You know, I wanted to do something that is needed. I wanted to give a solution
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to our veteran problem, not with policy, not with theory, but with truth.
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I have veteran brothers and sisters dialed all over this country,
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not just soldiers, not just service members, police officers,
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firefighters, warriors from every area. World War II, Korea,
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Vietnam, Cold War, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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Some of them in their 80s and 90s now. Families gone, friends gone,
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units gone. Like I said earlier, too many of them are often dying alone.
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People don't understand what that means to us, veterans.
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You know, in the military and in the service professions like policing,
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no one is supposed to walk their last steps alone.
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We grew up watching these moments in stories and films for a reason.
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Warriors grasping arms, one telling the other. Brother, I wish you well on your
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journey. Those moments matter.
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It matters to be seen off by people who understand what you carried,
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what you sacrificed, and what you tried to do for something bigger than yourself.
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That dignity, that acknowledgement, is part of the bond of service.
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And right now, too many of our own are being denied that.
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Not because America is cruel, but because America has become small. Small in focus.
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Small in attention. Small in memory.
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Listen, most people are doing what they're supposed to do, raising families,
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working jobs, trying to survive. That isn't wrong. That's human.
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But here's the truth that really gets said aloud.
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The big picture was never supposed to be a burden of ordinary people.
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The big picture is the responsibility of leadership.
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And I'm going to be straight up by it. Right now, leadership is failed.
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It didn't fail quietly. It failed by selling the vision of the country piece
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by piece until nothing moves unless a corporation approves it,
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funds it, or profits from it.
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Somewhere along the way, values were replaced by quarterly earnings,
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integrity by branding, and long-term national thinking by short-term financial gain.
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We've allowed corporations, not citizens, not communities, not moral leadership
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to define what matters, what gets built, what gets protected, what gets abandoned.
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And the result is a country that moves fast, but stands for very little.
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Today is not bankrupt of money. It's dehydrated of values.
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And when values disappear, people shrink their focus, not because they're selfish,
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but because no one is guarding. the center anymore, like I said earlier.
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No one is articulating a shared direction we're sacrificing for.
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Veterans don't lose the big picture, not because we're better people,
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but because we're trained not to.
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We're trained to think beyond ourselves, to understand that individual comfort
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is secondary to collective survival, to hold integrity even when no one is watching.
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Because in our world, integrity keeps people alive and our integrity is harder to purchase.
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That's why this moment matters so much for me. And that's why I made this podcast
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before we start the new year, because this matters. I want to get this started and I need your help.
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Because when leadership fails to carry the big picture, someone has to pick it up.
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And veterans, by training, by culture, by lived experience, are prepared to do exactly that.
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Not to rule, not to dominate, but to restore orientation.
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And that's what I need to do right now because I believe that if we can get
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this started, it can restart the country with the other plans that I got going on too.
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If you follow me, you'll learn about those too because everything I do is integrated.
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But to remind this country that leadership is not about profit extraction.
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It's about stewardship, not about control, but about responsibility,
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not about selling the future, but protecting it.
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That's the gap I'm trying to step into right now. And it's long overdue,
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guys, and I need your help.
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I understand that what happens in our small world affects a larger one.
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That values don't scale unless they're lived somewhere first.
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That discipline, unity and purpose don't magically appear. They have to be a practice.
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That's what the Veteran Civic Renewal Compact is really about.
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It's about creating points of light across this country, placing where no veteran
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lies unseen, no elder is discarded, no survivor is forgotten,
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no child grows up without structure, no community forgets what values look like
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when they're lived, not advertised.
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Civic renewal wouldn't be moments. They wouldn't be monuments.
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They'd be living examples.
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Places where people can look and say, that's what it looks like when discipline
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and compassion still exists.
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And don't misunderstand me. This isn't about being joyless.
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Veterans love to barbecue. We love to laugh. We love to sit around telling the
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same stories we've told a thousand times.
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Structure doesn't kill joy. It makes joy last.
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This plan isn't about isolating veterans from America either.
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It's about giving America a chance to remember itself. Because when you turn
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these points of light on, one state at a time, one community at a time,
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you don't just help veterans.
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You restore something this country is starving for, a sense that values still
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matter, that service still matters, that no one who gave their life to something
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larger than themselves has to face the end alone.
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So I'm not asking for applause. I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm asking for land.
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I need the land. Give veterans the ground and we will build places of dignity,
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discipline, and belonging for our elders, for our wounded, for our children, for our country.
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That's the mission. And we're ready to execute.
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So you still with me? I appreciate your time. And I hope that was a little long. I was a little drawn out.
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I apologize. I had a break in the middle. I didn't realize my copies had got
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all jacked up in my printer. So I had to go to my original thing. But,
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it's time for us to put a system together. I got the system.
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I got the plan. It's time for us to start moving on this.
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You know, let's give us some land. Give the veterans land. Let that be the next
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initiative that we help push across this country.
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We'll figure it out from there. You know, I know all my veteran buddies would
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love to get into something like this, where they could start rebuilding places,
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you know, to help using new technology to help redesign, setting the stage,
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You've set the standard moving forward, you know, looking out for the,
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you know, the disabled, you know, kids that can't take care of themselves.
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I know my veteran brothers would love to do that.
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I know they would. We just need us. We just need we need a base of we need a
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base of operations to do this from, you know.
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But like I said, thanks for spending time with me.
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I have one more veteran message coming out, something I wrote.
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I wrote a message out. I'm just going to talk about briefly on a podcast.
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It'll be a little bit shorter than this one.
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Called Stand Down, just my message to veterans. You know, guys, we're very potent.
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And I talk about that in that podcast. I'm also going to talk about one of my
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initiatives called the Voting Corps, which I think is something we need to,
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you know, after looking at the voting history, you know, I think it's time we do efforts,
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create a, I got a plan, let's put it that way.
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And this could be part in this, you know, this veteran piece could fit into that plan too.
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So, like I said, all my plans link to each other, like I said,
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in their future thinking, and it's the future of America. And I also have one
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coming out called The Spine.
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And as my AI tells me, that's probably the biggest project in American history coming up.
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But I think this project in itself can lay down the foundation for our future
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in so many different ways, particularly in infrastructure and in management.
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So be looking out for that. And like I said, I thank you again once for your
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time and share this. follow me.
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If you got any comments, please provide it. Like I said, I'll do a live show
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to talk to people and listen to comments if anybody wants me to.
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I'm going to need 50 go lives on this comment when you see this comment feed.
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Thank you for your time. I really do appreciate it. I look forward to talking to you.
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I look forward to a better America than what we see a lot on the TV right now. Take care all.
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Hug everybody. Call everybody you haven't called in a while just to say, hey, I miss you.