Waiting on the world to change

AmberMagdalena

I know this sounds like I'm a beauty pageant contestant or something, but are there some things out there that you can't help, that you really wish you could change?

I know I tear up when I hear about another young person who is a victim of yet another gun crime, all because they thought that was a way to make money. Why does anyone even need a gun to function in everyday life? It's sad.

Or American famine. There isn't a reason in the world why even one person in this FAT country that someone should wonder where they're getting their next meal from.

Also, abandoned/abused/neglected children. There are so many people out there willing to open their homes to an unplanned baby. It's upsetting.

LOL Idk maybe I sound like a nut job, but I have I feeling I'm not alone in this. We are FULL of wonderful solutions and opinions. What are some of yours?


P.S. This is meant to be just a sharing experience for YOUR opinion of peace. If there is ANY fighting, I will delete the posting.



"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" -Lennon

bflicker11

More rehabs for people dealing with addiction. Sending addicts to jail doesn't really work. If someone steals something to get drugs, let them go straight to rehab. If it's a violent crime, jail and then rehab.

I work in the foster care field and it's heart breaking to see children being abused and neglected. I wish I could snap my fingers and make that all stop. Children are our future and to see them everyday being horribly mistreated is very sad.

gracefullyjenn

Bflicker I couldnt agree with you more on that. My husband and I adopted three children from foster care as babies. They had to go through drug withdrawl and two of them have FASD. These were birthed to mothers who have spent time in jail and these were not their first or even second children.

dfborders

I would overhaul the whole adoption process in our country. I would not hold celebrities in esteem who adopt children from other countries; in fact, I would ask them if they have been to the ghettos recently or in the back alleys of our own streets in the US to see how many US children live. Then I would ask them to please take their money and their status and help our US children while they are helping children in other countries. I would never want them to stop their efforts to help other countries but I think we need to start looking at our own infrastructure and start helping our children too.

immacookie

Bflicker I couldnt agree with you more on that. My husband and I adopted three children from foster care as babies. They had to go through drug withdrawl and two of them have FASD. These were birthed to mothers who have spent time in jail and these were not their first or even second children.

Sadly enough you just described my cousin's oldest girl... now pregnant with baby #2 who I'm sure will also be taken at court order. :frown:

frostke

I'm with you on the abused/neglected children. There are too many people in this world who shouldn't have children and on the other side there are about the same amount of people who can't have children. Still, there seems to be a disconnect. Every person in this world deserves to be loved.

immacookie

The US needs to figure out it's insurance system... which now is basically run by the drug companies. As a standard middle class person, when I get laid off - I'm not able to afford COBRA, and certainly not able to afford private insurance.... but I still do not qualify for any other kind of assistance. :huh: :grumble:

AmberMagdalena

The US needs to figure out it's insurance system... which now is basically run by the drug companies. As a standard middle class person, when I get laid off - I'm not able to afford COBRA, and certainly not able to afford private insurance.... but I still do not qualify for any other kind of assistance. :huh: :grumble:

When I worked for welfare in Bucks county, you have to be mental or woman with 1,000 children to have medical. Single working dads can't get insurance, even with low income. Newly graduated college students can't get medical if they are over 21, which most college grads are. The system is jacked...

koosdel

37,261.

This is he number of people killed in auto crashes in 2008. This is 42 times the population of my town. Imagine waking to over 37 thousand of your neighbors, friends, family, dead.

I don't understand why anyone needs an auto to function. Walk, ride a bike, move closer to work. Save a life.

peacehawk

It breaks my heart when I talk to teenagers in the foster system because no one wants to adopt them, let alone foster them, just because of their age. They can be the best, coolest, most talented, smartest kids in the world, but because of their ages, no one wants them. I get so frustrated for these kids. and, the special needs kids in the system, well, enough said. I wish every kid regardless of age, talents, color, etc, could have someone who cares about them unconditionally.