No U-Turns is one of those grassroots ideas that comes along only once in awhile. This is a carefully designed low-cost approach that is fully funded by small business - strictly without government money. It is a non-partisan approach that represents new thinking for advancing our country and cutting the costs of government. It is about entrepreneurship and creative volunteerism seeking to serve. This is small business helping people, improving productivity, reducing prison populations, cutting welfare, and adding taxpayers to the system.

Everyone knows someone affected - if not in your immediate family, then extended family, an associate, or a neighbor. You know such people and your constituents know such people. This is not a political issue - it is simply a fact of life in America, and No U-Turns is a win for everyone.

Our Presidents have asked us to find ways for the private sector to step up and help unburden our government and our taxpayers. This country continues to be built by entrepreneurship and small business, so how can that creativity of new ideas be put to work? Particularly in these challenging post-9/11 times, with our economy stressed by the fight against terrorism, America needs ways to improve productivity. Most states are in budget shortfalls and many are turning convicted felons out of jails and prisons because of the expense. It's well known that incarceration doesn't necessarily reform a person - reformation must be a personal commitment. But if our former inmates can't find a job, they fall back into old behavior patterns and commonly return to prison where we continue to spend too much money on incarceration that does too little good.

How can we help our former inmates become productive citizens who feel good about themselves? How can we help them stand up on their own two feet and learn to take care of themselves? Can we imagine a solution that does this and reduces the cost to government at the same time?

No U-Turns offers such a solution.

Please refer your constituents to No U-Turns, particularly those who are ministers, counselors, drug court judges, and recovery organization leaders, and pray for the success of this grassroots concept.