APO AE 09213-1315
June 13, 1995
The Honorable Bill Archer
Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Archer:
Wrote you last November, enclosing several papers I hoped you or your staff might find useful in your search for needed Constitutional reforms, ideas to reduce our Trade and Budget deficits, and putting forward an idea for a series of what I called "Sump Industries" (subsidized quasi-protected workshops to provide employment for the unemployable to reduce demoralization and multi-generational welfare dependency).
I'm writing again in the light of President Clinton's veto of the Congress's budget cutting bill, to direct your attention once more to para 6, Variable Social Security Paymenrs to Eligible Aliens Living Abroad, in the Ec Ideas paper, proposing limiting Social Security payments abroad (a non vote loser), which would help both the balance of payments and the budget. Hope in redrafting the legislation to compromise with Mr. Clinton's demands you'll find a place to limit the duration for which S.S. payments can be made to AmCits residing abroad, and to relate S.S. payments to non-cits to local welfare norms. I also take this opportunity to point out that France is currently giving serious attention to the creation of subsidized low-tech jobs for the otherwise unemployable per my Sump Industries paper. It's hard to monopolize good ideas, and I think this one's an essential part of workfare/welfare reform. Hope you'll give it the attention it deserves.
Sincerely,
D. B. Timmins, PhD (Harvard)
Professor of Finance & Economics (ret.)
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