GrassRoots VOICE of America Jan 2015

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Governor Rick Scott awarded 121 Florida veterans with the Governor’s Veterans Service Award for their service to Florida and the nation How do you stop tantrums in a 3-year-old? My daughter never went through the “terrible twos,” but began throwing wild tantrums shortly after her third birthday.

Faith is a word the carries a lot of providence to many people and many religions. Most of us pray about something at least those of us in the faith. We pray to God for many things like health, love, prosperity, wisdom, and other things to numerous to contemplate. The Association of Mature American Citizens is actively encouraging Congress to act on Social Security in a timely and comprehensive manner. Dan Weber, AMAC president, said “we can’t afford to just kick the can down the road with interim fixes that will likely result in hardship both for those who are still paying into Social Security and for those who are depending on SS income in their old age.”

Can American history teach us anything about how to eradicate economic inequality? It can and what it tells us is not reassuring. Historically, American reform occurs sporadically, lasts briefly, and brings about only incremental changes. It took the Great Depression to create the opportunity to only partially fix the excesses of American capitalism. And historians have long argued that it was not FDR’s New Deal which ended large-scale unemployment but World War II. A federal judge ruled that BP will be held responsible for spilling nearly 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010


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