These Old Shoes, over these GOD/JESUS Feet!

These Old Shoes, over these God/Jesus feet!

...and today I laugh with myself, and I did yesterday, not concern about the outside material worth of the living experience. More concerned and internally/externally focused on the Chiespirt---the worth of the "living thing..." God provided all of us in Genesis 2:7.  Thus I walk about in some old, torn, rugged, shoes: as with all things regarding "intention of others" I care less about where they came from. They served their purpose and they still serve their purpose, as to cover my feet from the "Danger of Nature Forces". Reminds me of A.Maslow, with Shelter/Housing being a  necessity,  by which society protects the mass population from the elements of nature, that can and do cause death!!!  http://paulgoree.blogspot.com/2014/11/maslow-theorem-great-society-america.html

Thus I were these old, rugged shoes as I have been homeless since 2010 (on and off- regardless of working, which only lead to a case with the Labor Commissioner regarding my employer. Regardless of continued status as an higher educational institution, the last one: ASU Phoenix, AZ 2013 (suspended by me, until I receive closure from Margaret Finn at S.W.B.S http://paulgoree.blogspot.com/2017/12/2017-time-is-slipping-away-margaret.html )  

Regardless of how silly, stupid, non-appropriate- I can not see myself continuing on in the Social Service Sociology field knowing that a case manager like Margaret Finn is out there and her clients (not me- I was a quasi client, through HUD) SSD/Behavioral clients are being lied to, as she lied to me. I think suspending my life career intent is WORTH it! At least, one person stood by their ground and principles of social empowerment! There will always be other lives, by which God hopefully will bless me again!!!

 Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later, in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. However, here Van Gogh has placed the shoes within a specific spatial context: namely, the red-tile floor of the Yellow House.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436533 

Should Private Invest Companies like Goldman Sachs get involved with Public Social Services?

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Recently in Bloomberg Businessweek, an article by Esme E. Deprez titled 'Goldman Bets On Cutting Crime'. The article detailed the effective, cost cutting and social award of public social service, administered under Goldman Sachs, compared to the current public social service. In Boston, Goldman Sachs contracted with non-profit agency ROCA, and together they executed lower crime rates in Boston, with a lower recidivism. This gave to Boston a new portion of the community that are fully integrated and empowered, rather than a $47,000.00 bill (per inmate) per month. What do you think? Should the nation look toward wise collective advisement from private industry like Goldman Sachs? Or should social service remain within the social public servant arena?

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 Best Answer:  Goldman and other banking establishments work best as total dictators. Pay up or we foreclose on your home! Social Services most often require compassion, a poor quality for a bank. Most humans are self interested. They desire to extract the most personal benefit for the least corresponding effort. Social Services only works because there are "idiots" out there who want to provide and do not demand any form of effort in return or for exchange in the event. Bums are bums because they only desire to take...ever seen a bum out handing out dollars?

Ed Nargel · 1 year ago

Maslow Theorem: The Great Society America 21st Century

Maslow Theorem: The Great Society America 21^st Century (work in progress-by Paul D. Goree)

Now that President Obama has cemented another critical piece to the resolvement of the Great Society. We now can look towards the final piece.  Abraham Maslow, cites several lower hierarchy social requirements, needed for upward mobility. These needs represent the physiological and sociological requirements of an individual to survive within a societal setting.These needs include water, food, safety, security, and shelter. If these lower hierarchy needs are not consistent/stable, then social upward mobility is not possible. For example, as soon as an individual has food/water, they are in need of shelter/housing. Once shelter/housing is required, they may lose their job, and then shelter/housing becomes an issue again. Thus this becomes a continuous circle,resulting in discouragement; in the Land of Liberty.

The Great Society (L.B. Johnson), suggests that all of the lower level survival needs be state provided (social welfare). With universal health care resolves safety and security, as AFDC/TANF resolves water and food. Now American can look to resolving housing needs. We can look towards HUD for some of these answers. Yet it still seems that states, may be able to resolve housing much better than the centralized bureaucracy that HUD is.

In Rubinger’s article: Why U.S. Desperately needs affordable homes, he states:

“America faces many more unresolved affordable housing challenges. A $26 billion capital-needs backlog that's associated with our publicly financed affordable housing stock looms.

Traditional federal subsidies that enable affordability -- such as Section 8, which authorizes rental housing payment assistance to private landlords on behalf of more than 3 million low-income households -- are being cut back. Federal housing subsidy programs such as HOME were slashed this year. These vital programs need to be preserved and expanded.

Other important tools are at the ready, but sadly, they are inactive or underutilized.

Back in 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the National Housing Trust Fund, requiring at least 90% of its funds be used to build, preserve or rehabilitate rental housing for low-income households. But this program and others like it have yet to receive the funding that was envisioned by the law.

Another valuable initiative is the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program, which enables private developers to work with public housing authorities to preserve affordable housing. But it has only been funded for up to 60,000 housing units…”

According to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (2013) the following data reflects the homeless population as of January 2013:

January 2013

•           610,042 people were homeless in the United States.

•           Nearly two-thirds of people experiencing homelessness (65 percent or 394,698) were living in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs.

•           More than one-third of all homeless people(35 percent or 215,344) were living in un-sheltered locations such as under bridges, in cars, or in abandoned buildings. Age of Homeless Population in 2013. In 2013, HUD required communities to provide estimates of homelessness in three age ranges— under age 18, 18 to 24 years old, and 25 years old and older.

•           More than two-thirds of all homeless people (67 percent or 410,352 people) were 25 years or older.

•           10 percent of homeless people were 18 to 24 years old (or 61,541). This percentage remains the same regardless of sheltered status.

•           Nearly one-quarter of all homeless people (23 percent or 138,149) were homeless children under the age of 18, and 30 percent of sheltered homeless people were children.

•           80 percent of unsheltered homeless people were over the age of 25. Less than 10 percent of the unsheltered population was under 18.

REFERNCES:

US Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2013). Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR). Retrieved from  https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/ahar-2013-part1.pdf

Rubinger, Micheal. (2014). Why U.S. Desperately needs affordable homes. CNN Opinion. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/28/opinion/rubinger-affordable-housing/