A short spoken segment from Richard Canfield arguing that lasting social change—reducing dependence on social programs—begins at the household level and can spread outward over a generation or more through teaching personal economic responsibility. The speaker frames the work as teaching 'Nelson's message' and emphasizes local, home-level decisions as the lever for generational impact.
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Over a generation or a generation and a half. Virtually almost every social program that we need to fund with tax dollars could probably be eliminated because the dollars would show up and there wouldn't need to be a burden on the system in the way that there has been. I really do believe that fundamentally. And so the work that we're doing by teaching Nelson's message, if you want to look at creating generational impactful change, change begins with you. It begins at home. It doesn't begin out there in the real world. Everything starts and begins at home and then it echoes outside of that. The lessons that we teach, the things you have autonomy and control of, those decisions at the home level, you don't have them at the protest level necessarily. So if you focus on what's going on here in the local environment, your personal economy, then it can spread to your local economy and then it can spend to the state or the provincial. You can build things out the same way.