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. . Safeguards: The intention of the TLC-Life-Center Team is to prevent any single individual or group of individuals from having unbridled power. Why? Because time and time again, history has proven that humans do not have the capacity to deal with having unrestricted power. In the world today, money and power are intimately interconnected. Money is a very potent tool that can be used for the benefit of people or as a tool for repression and enslavement as it in now being done in all too many places and ways. To countermand this problem, the TLC-Life-Center Team recommends some major safeguards be installed in the trust structures. The goal is to prohibit anyone from stealing, destroying, or in any way damaging the original capital, or from lining their pockets with the fund's money, or from playing favorites with the trust's assets in exchange for personal benefits. Readers might note that the TLC-Life-Center team is designing its program to avoid behavior such as that which is now the all too common practice of our federal congressmen and senators. Special interest groups use money to buy and to control those who are supposed to represent the public's interests. This unethical and highly-destructive behavior is usually hidden in secrecy or is buried under one or more degrees of separation, and as a result, the general public does not see and does not understand that a government of the people, by the people and for the people has been transformed into a feeding troth for the wealth and powerful. The Recommended Structure Structure Structure:Because of the immense power that a trust with very large assets has, the TLC-Life-Center Team recommends that the trusts with assets over a particular sum, perhaps $500,000 in value, (using 2005-value for the dollar) be controlled using a structure based on that which was originally set up as the American Republic by our founding fathers. Each trust that controls substantial assets has a checks-and-balances control system. One branch (the Rule-makers) determines the what, why, and how of the trust. A second branch (the Managers) administers the trust, and a third branch (the Arbitrators) oversees the trust and resolves any disputes. To this basic structure, the TLC-Life-Center Team suggests adding a fourth branch, (the Reality-Checkers). The Reality-Checkers, using common sense and what the unbiased evidence indicates is the long-term best interests of everyone, including Mother Nature. This faction examines and weighs the indirect and usually hidden costs of the activities supported by the trust's investment funds. The goal is to gain enough financial power to redirect the priorities of the present, corporate, hierarchical structures that are, all too commonly, blindly raping Mother Nature and sacrificing the health and well-being of employees on the altar of corporate profits. The goal is to, step-by-step, shift the manner in which businesses are run -- to shift corporate priorities from profits to people. All members of all four branches are elected annually by the trust's beneficiaries. The beneficiaries are similar to the "owners" of the assets in the sense that they receive the benefits. (There aren't any owners in a trust; the people for whom the trusts were set up are called beneficiaries -- they get the benefits) The beneficiaries, in their annual meetings and by majority vote, have the power to adjust, alter, or change the overall purpose of the trust. The trust's Rule-Makes and the Arbitrators, and the Reality-Checkers collectively, have the power to veto actions of the Managers and, if necessary, remove and replace any management people who are not operating in the best interest of all concerned. By a vote called for by any member of any of the other three branches, ( Rule-Makes, Arbitrators, and Reality-Checkers ) management decisions may be vetoed, and/or members of Management can be removed and replaced. The bottom-line intention is that those for whom the trust was set up (the beneficiaries) be able to protect their assets and to indirectly (by annually electing the member of the four trust branches) oversee how the trusts are run. In terms of who may participate in a particular trust, entry into the trust may be open or restricted in any way that the trust's beneficiaries choose by majority vote at their annual meetings. Letter and Intent: All rules and policies of the trust shall have two equally powerful parts -- the letter of those rules and the stated intention behind the written rules. Whenever a rule (a statement of prescribed behavior) is written, its intention shall also be written with it. A violation of the rule's stated intention shall be equal to a violation of the letter of the rule. Here's an example of the type of unethical practices the TLC-Life-Center Team's program intends to avoid and prohibit: The auto insurance industry in California is legally prohibited from discriminating against a driver and charging insurance premiums based upon where the driver lives. The industry honors the letter of the law but grossly and blatantly violates its intent. The industry discriminates by charging premiums based upon the address where the car is garaged/parked. Rules and Policies: As an aid to healthy and flexible, trust management, a clear distinction needs to be made between a rule and a policy. A rule is a directive -- ("This is the way such-and-such shall be handled.") A policy is a guideline giving latitude and leeway for the administers to adapt and adjust the suggested behavior and respond appropriately to fit each particular situation. Consensus Versus Domination: The trust shall be run by consensus and not simply be domination by the majority. Consensus brings people together and minimizes differences by making harmony more important than getting one's way. Where opinions differ, decisions are often outside the will of either side. For a detailed description, see the page titled: consensus. There you'll find answers to common questions such as: How does consensus differ from majority rule? What to do if there is no consensus.. . |
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. In order to successfully use the trust system we have described in this document, three major problem need to be faced and solved. The first problem is the initial cost of setting up the trust. The TLC-Life-Center Team is approaching businesses and other organizations that can afford the trust setup costs. We are requesting that they not only set up a trust for themselves following our format, but that they also make the structures they create available to The TLC-Life-Center Team so that we can pass them on to others. In that way, The TLC-Life-Center Team will soon have a set of generic trust structures. We will then make these structures available to others who request them from us. The structures can be used by others for setting up their own trusts. We will also make special arrangements with professionals who oversee the setups and actually produce the functional and functioning trusts. Because we will be dealing with them regularly and in volume, The TLC-Life-Center Team will find a person or organization that will be willing to produce the additional trusts at reduced costs. This will significantly reduce the initial costs and complications of setting up trusts. The second problem is the lack of assets with which to fund the trusts. Most people do not have sufficient money to warrant the cost of creating and managing a trust. This is solvable by combining assets with other members of any mutual-support community so that combined assets will be enough to justify the cost of setting up the trusts and the costs and effort of managing them. The third problem is managing the trusts. Again, the costs and the effort required will be significantly reduced by cooperative efforts. By combining assets into a common trust, management costs can be spread over a large number of participants and thus no one is paying all the bills. No Quick Fix: Readers must understand that this project is neither a magic bullet nor a quick fix. Collectively, humans have spent years creating the circumstances and the conditions that exist today, so it's going to take some time and some effort to turn this around. We have reached the point where a new course of action is desperately needed. Old behavior patterns (such as, doing more of the same, doing the same thing harder, or waiting for someone else to do it for you) are not going to solve today's problems. The TLC-Life-Center is just one step in the turn-around process. Getting the project into its fully functioning state will take time, effort, and a change of attitude and behavior; however, once all the pieces are in place and functioning, expanding the project will be a relatively easy task. . |
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. . The major intentions of the TLC-Life-Center's project include the following. Our intentions are:
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. . As soon as enough people begin creating Retirement-focused, Tangible-asset, Investment Trusts using the format offered in this program, (and it's only a matter of time) the trusts will begin to have major impacts upon the way businesses are run and where those business profits go. Because the investments themselves are never ever spent, initially the only spendable money from the trust will come from profits made from investing the original capital. The number of trusts and the amount of money in this type of trust will grow to the point where the trusts begin to cooperate with other similarly designed trusts and collectively dominate or become owners of corporations. (See the N.V.P. Teams "Save the Virgin Redwoods Project" for an example of controlling a corporation.) When this happens, the corporate benefits above and beyond that which go to the stockholders will also belong to the trusts. In addition, the trusts will be able to control how the corporations treat their employees and how they treat the environment. Gone will be the days of multi-million dollar salaries for corporate executives while retired, former employees choose between spending their last dollars on food or medicine. Gone will be the days of multi-million dollar severance packages and bonuses for executives when corporate profits are way down and/or when the corporation is facing bankruptcy. Gone will be the days when employee retirement funds are stolen by corporate executives using government-sanctioned, legal piggly-wiggly. Gone will be the days of oil-drilling in pristine natural environments. Gone will be the days when employee and community health are sacrificed on the altar of corporate profits. The "doing" part of this equation is really quite easy. The challenge is waking people up and getting them to think clearly. (Unfortunately, the money-wheelers-and-dealers have seriously mis-educated the general public about what do do with their retirement monies and those so-called experts are completely ignoring rule one of investing -- asset protection.) The TLC-Life-Center's Tangible-asset, Retirement-funding Project simply needs to be implemented by willing participants, properly managed, and allowed time to grow. . |
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