Jason's work to enrich his soils organically, maintain the natural forest on his land and protect his artesian spring may even meet the Iroquois test of benefiting people seven generations hence.
No intrusive testing of benefit eligibility, no punitive sanctions regime, no jobcentre advisers hassling people to apply for the lowest-paid jobs.
This has been reversed, with substantial means-testing of benefits and tax credits, and the value of the remaining universal benefits falling well behind earnings.
No means-testing of benefits, and thus no families stuck in poverty traps where benefit withdrawal erodes any increase in earnings.
First, with income inequality at record levels, the burden should be disproportionately borne by the wealthy, through some combination of higher premiums and means testing of benefits.
Making the wealthy pay a larger share of their Medicare costs, through further means-testing of benefits, would be one way to go.
The Washington cognoscenti are more inclined to discuss two main approaches that are far less costly for the affluent: means-testing of benefits and raising the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare.
MPs also called on ministers to exclude armed forces injury compensation from the means testing of benefits.
He indicated his support for means-testing of benefits such as winter fuel payments and free bus passes for pensioners, saying he would "support fairness by making clear that money should not be paid to those who do not need it - looking again at universal benefits paid to the wealthiest pensioners".
It's true: Several members of Congress believe extended benefits discourage the jobless from seeking work, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to require drug testing of benefits recipients.
