Simply put heterosexuals have social approval for their choice of partners whereas the gay community is ostrasized Announcing their preference! The hope to gain the same social acceptance automatically given to heterosexuals. Being gay in america is not a positive identity and gays seek to legitimize their preference just as heterosexuals do and receive acceptance without criticism.Yolur inability to grasp the emotional pain associated with being a gay person is interfering with empathy they truly deserve just as any outgroup is negated for being different...

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this is all interesting and such, but how do tax credits for low paying jobs and vouchers for volunteer work bring down the debt?

getting people off unemployment into low paying jobs does nothing for the debt. unemployment insurance is taxed just like the low paying job and neither will owe any income tax.

you want employers to reap the benefits of cheap labor while getting tax credits to do it.

I can appreciate the idea of volunteerism and it is something we all need to do more of, but as far as using that to better your chances of getting a job or whatever you are implying might happen is hardly enough.

Increased revenue through real job creation and cutting wasteful spending is how you reduce the debt.

I do appreciate your comments and you make some great points. The idea isn’t to allow businesses to reap the benefits of cheap labor while receiving a tax credit. Obviously there will have to be certain policies put in place to address every issue. The volunteer idea is based on the employer hiring the individual within a three month time frame which is the exact amount of time their benefits would last. Volunteering only gives that employer a chance to train the individual on how to do the job according their standards but they are required to hire them to receive any tax benefits. You are truly right when you say we need real job creation. All that I’m suggesting is, and mind you this is based on the fact that I’ve been doing this for more than twenty five years and I happen to be a small business owner to boot, creating incentives for employers to hire and for folks to not depend on benefits. And keep in mind, the first suggestion is not to volunteer but instead to tie benefits to employment. If a business understands that they can cheaper labor they will take advantage of that. And why not? They will be required to regular wages and keep that person employed for a certain time frame in order to qualify for the tax benefits. And the thinking is that we need to reduce the corporate tax rate anyway so why not do it through employment.

I wish you luck

you seem to have a well balanced interest in people on both the side of the employers and the employee,,

my mothers career was accounting and we have talked many times about the economy and solutions and many of your ideas are similar

I think vocational counseling is/will be an ENORMOUS asset in the work towards decreasing unemployment and economic instability,,,

you hit the nail on the head, many people don't know what their 'value' is and they don't know where to go to learn about how to market it,, they don't have those networks that can expose them to the resources

inclusion of such networks in an economic solution would work wonders, in my opinion

will you be running for President someday? or,, congressman maybe..lol

Obama and Clinton both opened the doors to helping people without the people being required to do anything except claim the monies by applying for subsidies without participation ( work study) Reagan cut many programs that offered help but no work and the roles for assistance dropped and people were forced to work and become more self reliant Today a culture of entitlement where people believe someone( GOVT) should provide assistance as so many women are heads of households and men do nothing and pay nothing to help rear their children and the school is then left to be in loco parentis ( substitute parent) this is not tenable and the schools cannot replace two parents attending to their children but instead drop off at free day care. get food stamps, housing subsidies, and medical assistance all at working peoples expense.The degree of poverty for children in houston is at 20% and likley representative of other large metropolitan areas wherein local state and federal programs enable many to live without contributing..

all great ideas

but how would that fit in for the unemployed with children who aren't school aged, they would need child care to 'volunteer', but wouldn't have income from that 'volunteer' job to arrange it,,,

By Mychal Massie on February 12, 2014 in Behind The Political Curtain

http://mychal-massie.com/premium/factual-history-democrats-do-not-want-blacks-to-know/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=factual-history-democrats-do-not-want-blacks-to-know

Here is more history that black people will not hear, and Democrats want to forget or attempt to spin into something that it isn’t. In 1872, the Republican Party Platform stated: “During eleven years of [congressional] supremacy, it [the Republican Party] has…suppressed a gigantic rebellion, emancipated four millions of slaves, directed the equal citizenship of all, and established universal suffrage [voting]. Complete liberty and exact equality in the enjoyment of all civil, political, and public rights should be established and effectually maintained throughout the Union by efficient and appropriate state and federal legislation. Neither the law nor its administration should admit any discrimination in respect of citizens by reason of African Americans, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (wallbuilders.com)

That very same year, the Democrat Platform read: “We pledge ourselves to maintain the union of these states, emancipation, and enfranchisement, and to oppose any reopening of the questions settled by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution. We demand the immediate and absolute removal of the rebellion [Civil War] which was finally subdued seven years ago, believing that universal amnesty will result in complete pacification in all sections of the country.”

That sounded good, and if you had stopped reading there you could easily have believed it was a magnanimous display of contrition. But, as it has always been with Democrats, the truth lies in their actions, not their words. “This is a false and misleading promise, for Democrats had relentlessly opposed those Amendments — and the civil rights laws based on them. Not only had Democrats stridently opposed the 13th Amendment, but not a single Democrat in Congress voted either for the 14th Amendment (declaring that former slaves were full citizens and therefore entitled to all rights and privileges of any other citizen in the state in which they lived) or the 15th Amendment (granting explicit voting rights to black Americans). In fact, in the civil rights bill of 1871 to punish the Klan violence, not one Democrat in Congress voted for that bill. The same was true with other major civil rights laws. Therefore, voting records prove this platform declaration by Democrats to be patently false.”

This part of history is discarded and miscast. In fact, the truth is that the very blacks who claim erudition are ignorant of the fact that there even was a Civil Rights Bill of 1871 that included language to punish the Klan. They regurgitate distortions and lies as verifiable facts when, as I show above, they are any but facts.

This is important history. It is history that is not discussed in the 28-day tribute to immiseration and self-imposed victimology, and you can count the public school classrooms it is taught in on probably one hand — with fingers left over.

It is a tragic and venal display of abandoning the truth for political gain on the one hand, and disavowing the truth out of a rabid desire to denounce modernity on the other.

Many blacks are victims. But they are victims of their own making and choosing. They revel in the mire of despair and antipathy. They are invidious and given to self-segregating. The brainwashing of many blacks has been complete to the point of there being a valid question as to how many save the very young can be reached with the truth.

White people are not the enemy of blacks, neither is America. Quite the opposite. Willful and wanton ignorance is the enemy of blacks. And that enemy in the mirror is cannibalizing their minds and beings. The truth is, it’s hard to rescue a drowning man because realizing they are drowning they thrash about and fight the very person(s) who would save them. Such is the analogy pursuant to blacks.

But we cannot allow that to deter the message of truth. Those of us who know the truth must share wholistically. We must realize that ours is a daunting task but a necessary one. This year is an important election year. Democrats have successfully implanted a charade (i.e., Obama), posing as a friend to blacks, when in fact, he, as the blacks in Chicago accurately pointed out after the State of the Union speech, has done nothing for anyone but himself and his cronies.

As long as the prostitution of skin color for political and personal gain, and ignorance of factual history are the rule, blacks will be susceptible to self-limitation. But we cannot allow that to silence the truth. Let’s hear them espouse that message during black history month.

RING-A-DING-A-FREAKIN-LING!!!

I got yer back.

Let's review a little forgotten or, hidden history.

IBD: Obama Brings Back Welfare State

Monday, 23 Feb 2009

President Brokeback Obama is bringing ��the discredited welfare state back to life, bigger than ever.

Obama, the editorial said, is now going full steam astern, back to the wasteful, corrupt and corrupting �� practices that Democrat Bill Clinton got re-elected helping to end.

Quoting Heritage Foundation senior domestic policy analyst Robert Rector, who recently noted that ��for the first time since 1996, the federal government would begin paying states bonuses to increase their welfare caseloads," the editorial paints a bleak picture of what Americans can expect over the next four years.

i spin a fine gauze of words around you

you rip the gauze to shreds

when i see blood

i see red

you see red, always

you say you love me

yet

i loved you, first



author's note....a creative piece, only.

as a parent, I realize 'change' can take time and the time it can take is relatively much longer than the time that peoples children can go without food or safehaven or clean water

these immediate NEEDS will very reasonably take precedent over long term 'change',,,

and both things can happen concurrently, people can meet their immediate needs while doing things to contribute to long term change

I do believe immigration laws should be enforced, but I am torn about sending people back who didn't come here through their own consent (children) but have gone on to create productive lives,,,,

anyone that came here illegally as an adult, should face the consequences of deportation,, those who came here legally but missed paperwork (the forgotten 'illegal' immigrant class) should have the option to correct their document errors