"Priceless"

Greetings All,


          Tuition: 1600/semester, books:600, An Education: Priceless.  I selected, S.B, 1658: The Healthy Food and Retail Act of 2012 which goes into effect in July.  Briefly, this bill would bring a stop to food stamp recipient from buying sweets and snack with public assistance funds.  The bill would also administer classes on a healthy, nutritional lifestyle.

          On my educational path I have studied several courses that unveils statics on African Americans.
For example, over 200 years of slavery serving as road blocks to obtaining valuable knowledge that I and millions of others are afforded the privilege of receiving today.  It's my contention that many diseases and other circumstances puts African Americans at the top of the list because of this 200 years of oppression.
          So when I see a bill that would cut sweets out for a race that is on top of the diabetes list, high blood pressure list, and countless of other, it has my support.  Unfortunately, I witness people who are trapped in a cycle that their children will surely be trapped in as well unless a higher education breaks the cycle.  Booker T. Washington was an advocate for learning a trade to provide but W. E. D.  DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk was in direct contrast to this concept.  Dubois argued that a well-rounded education is much more valuable.  If classes like Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, or even classes like Sociology doesn't set off the bells and whistles on proper living you were either sleep or the material was not new to you.
          This country needs more legislation that has mandatory educational classes added in the wording of the bill.  This bill will indirectly change the  life trajectory of millions of African American. "Priceless".


Cal Sloan

Neglect

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         Neglect comes in all shapes, sizes and colors.  Consistently, carelessness seems likely to link most cases of neglect.  Commonly such infractions of the law have become quite mundane in our arduous society.  At the same time, unfortunately, every once in a while heinous act of aggression captures national attention.  In particular, offenses against children seem to enrage the public as a whole.

           The harmful accounts of mistreated children seems to be escalating by the day, fluctuating from insinuations of carelessness to homicide.  Certainly, child neglect is unsuitable on all levels and should never be sanctioned in any culture.  Indeed, raising an innocent child is an extraordinary obligation to experience.  Of course, the preservation of a child is the primary responsibility of the parents.  Appropriate child nurturing is a profound and trying development that frankly some people are unable to manage, resulting in abuse and neglect.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/judge-says-casey-anthony-must-answer-limited-questions-21094

        All things considered, on July 5th 2011 Casey Anthony was found innocent of murder.  Thereafter, she was greeted with public outrage.  However, agreeable with the NASW code of ethics, social workers should respect the dignity of all humans.

Cal Sloan

                                    

Poverty

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         According to the Center for Women's Welfare the Self-Sufficiency Standard was created by Dr. Diane Pearce in the 1990s.  It is an assessment on the amount of funds needed to meet the basic necessities for a standard family.  In contrast, I contend that most families that need assistance are not standard but rather dysfunctional.  The family statics in an article in the NY Times "Who Suffered the Most" indicates from 2007 to 2010 that African American female heads of the house hold between 15 to 24 suffered the most in reference to income.

       My mother gave birth to 5 children, with myself being the oldest.  Looking back on my childhood I can remember feelings of being hunger.  It seemed that we never had enough and I felt that everyone else I came in contact with had it better than us.  Now that I'm older, I see why our resources were scarce.  First, my mother sent all of us to a private Catholic school. Which has had long lasting affects on the person I am today.   I'm sure, though we never discussed this matter, that she made many more sacrifices that I am unaware of.  In addition, I never knew my biological father and all my siblings have the same father.  This was an issue I also had to deal with. Without going into details, just because there is a man and woman providing for the house hold does not exactly make it a functional home.

        Emerging seemingly overnight, the infrastructure of our nation converged from manufacturing to service.  As a result, millions of non working , as well as, employed United States resident, routinely fail to provide the basic necessities consistently.  With few exceptions, the socially disadvantage encounter social barriers that stone wall countless efforts to improve their economic status.  Ordinarily,

prospects at risk of plunging below the poverty line consist of, one-parent families, older adults, people of color, and deficiently anyone not completing the 9th grade; just to name a few (Zastrow, 2010).  Meanwhile, our elected officials in Washington debate to and fro on their particular political party's interpretation of prudent public policies, while our nationals, ever since the Great Depression stretch of the 1930s has by at large, entrusted heavily on the U.S. Government to engage as a catalyst in stimulating the economy; while simultaneously alleviating unpleasant hard ships.

Cal Sloan

Reference

Zastrow, C. (2010). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare Empowering People.

            Brook/Cole: Belmont, CA.

Political Suicide

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Based on the premise that I am a wholehearted advocate for Mr. President Obama's re-election, let me start by congratulating Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on his convincing, double digit success in Florida recently.  Mr. Romney has serendipitously (happen by accident) advanced himself as the front-runner in the GOP marathon.  In the same spirit, I would like to take a moment and thank each and every one of his confidants.  I want to acknowledge your generosity. With that said, you  have all, in grand style put the incumbent administration in a position to secure this election in November by historical proportions.  To explain, not only has Mr. Romney sorely disappointed Mormonism and the all-embracing Latter Day Saint structure, which by the way he is a member of, but he has committed  "Political Suicide" by his admission, according to Laurie Goodstein of the NY Times, that he does not approve of the immigration reform of the "Dream Act", which conspicuously eliminates any supporting cast of Latin Voters.  

Kristin Murphy for The New York Times

Paul Edwards said Mormons had compassion for immigrants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/us/politics/romney-immigration-position-at-odds-with-mormon-church.html?scp=4&sq=u.s.%20legislation&st=cse

Goldstein document's that the "Dream Act" grants citizenship for illegal immigrants who would join our Armed Forces or obtain a college degree.  Incidentally, feel free to chime in if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't that be a commendable act?  Wouldn't that add more reported revenue? Doesn't that lower the deficit?  I recommend a processing fee in addition.  That would create jobs. Someone would have to do the processing.  I just so happen to own a modest janitorial company, I would love to  clean the processing facility.  But back to the case in point.  Our textbook books on Social Welfare explains the concept of the "Iron Triangle," which in part, is similar to the roles of, for instance, the Appropriation Committees, who are the true experts in Washington who advise Congress members on the details of various legislation (DiNitto 2011).  Why are we paying 535 over paid members of Congress to squabble? I for one, would rather have the knowledgeable advisers, who are intellectually acquainted with formality, just assume take over our social policy affairs.  Lastly, a sea of controversy awaits the GOP front-runner.  Someone should advise Mr. Romney that: "suicide is a sin".

Cal Sloan