What is surprising to us, from the perspective of our San Francisco Tours, is that find what we did is not surprising. Our city, as a community, decided to do about something about health care, and provide universal health care for our citizens. Just like we see on our San Francisco Food Tours, we used the power of community to address a local problem. Many local problems, regardless of their complexity can be solved by neighbors coming together, just like we see in the neighborhoods we visit on our San Francisco Culinary Tours.
Regardless of one's opinion of our health plan, it is an example of what can be accomplished when people act a a community. On our San Francisco Tours, we can see how when people decide to shop local merchants, it develops businesses concerned about the neighborhood that are located in. For the businesses on our San Francisco Food Tours, the people in our neighborhoods are not listings on a balance sheet, they are people that they see everyday. The result is that our businesses and neighbors that we see on our San Francisco Culinary Tours end up seeing beyond the bottom line for the current quarter.
One of our San Francisco Tours, we look at how we can get people to look beyond the current fiscal quarter. The biggest challenge for of us is to see beyond the immediate situation. Faced with an immediate crisis, we can lose touch with the long term perspective, whereby we save money on the short-term, but it costs us more in the long-term. On our San Francisco Food Tours, many of our guest are surprised by how many local stores that we have in San Francisco. For that to continue, people here have to make the choice to support local stores. It it same perspective that allowed us to address health care. On our San Francisco Culinary Tours, we visit many of our friends who now benefit from this. In the short-term, we had to invest in our health care system. In the long-term, it is now saving us money. However, it took people here demanding that our elected officials respond to the community, not outside interests. If we are to see changes on a national level, it will require the same demands. When our elected officials realize that they have no choice other than to respond our own citizens, we will have policies which address the needs of our citizens.
