Are Interracial Adoptions Different?

Do you think society today has accepted interracial adoptions the same way they accept same race adoptions? Do you believe being adopted into a family of a different race would have a good or bad effect on a child? What positive and negative issues do you think the child would have to deal with as he or she got older?

Hannah Miller

A robot took my job!

First, take a minute to check out these two sites:

http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2011/05/mcdonalds-to-replace-workers-with.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2006-04-14/tech/fs.roboticsprofile_1_personal-robots-joanne-pransky-new-technology?_s=PM:TECH

Thank you. Now please answer these questions: Do you think robots "working" in fast-food restaurants like McDonald's is a good idea? What's the upside and downside to this? Do you see this trend moving into other areas of the service industry? Will too many people lose their jobs? Or will their jobs just change to controlling the robots? Will fries , burgers , and chicken still taste the same? Will customers still attend these places even if food is not handmade? Technology is getting better every day, so it's getting more and more likely to see automated beings taking over the jobs of humans. What are your thoughts on this?

Marcus Colton

Welfare--when should people get help?

First, I apologize ahead of time for this long question! I am mainly trying to get your thoughts on the United States welfare system.

Welfare: a state-assisted program supported by the government to help needy families live a fair and healthy lifestyle. Welfare is for people who are poor or who are at or below the poverty level. Welfare might include giving these people cash, food stamps, low-income housing, school, vouchers for children, financial aid, and medical benefits. People who receive welfare are grouped into such categories as the unemployed, people with illness, people with a disability, the elderly, and veterans of the armed services.

As for people in the "elderly" category, there is often an age requirement on who can get help; in each state this limit is different. In some states, you must be at least 70 to get help; in other states the age is lower. In some cases, elderly people who are only two years younger than the state's age requirement are in desperate need of immediate health care . . . if they don’t get help, they’ll die.

Also, what about people who cannot work at all and the state finds them employable and they won’t give them any funds--how are they supposed to survive? Keep in mind they can't work--they want to, but they can't.

As caseloads for all the programs have soared, so have costs. The food stamps program has risen 80%, up to $70 billion. Welfare is up 24%, up to $22 billion.

Because of the current overwhelmed state of most of the welfare programs, they won't even help the unemployed in some cases--they won’t give you anything unless you have children. Of course, this makes people want to go have children, just to get funds.

Even in the state of Illinois, if you don’t have any children and are still employable but don’t have a job, they will only give you food stamps--no cash, and no medical. Do you think this is fair?

What about cases like this: Say a boyfriend & girlfriend or husband & wife split up or divorce. If the woman wasn’t working and decides to go to the government and ask for help, do you think they should help her?

The government usually won’t help anyone who is employable because all the funds are used up. These funds are used up, in part, by people lying on their taxes, by people who work under the table, and so on. A lot of the people who receive help from the government don’t really need the assistance; they just want to put extra money in their pockets. Is this fair to the people who are starving and have no place to live? How do we deal with this situation?

How does it make you feel when people just sit on their ass the whole day and don’t lift a finger to do any work for themselves, that they just live off the government? How does it feel as a taxpayer to pay for other people who take the system for granted, in return taking money or funds from people/children who really need it?

What do you think about people who use their welfare cash for alcohol or drugs? It means that money/ food wasn’t a necessity. How does that make you feel? They are taking food from a child’s mouth who was hungry just so they can get drunk or high?

Any other thoughts on the welfare program? Yes, the system is terribly abused, and some people take terrible advantage of it, but we can't just do away with it, right? So what can be done?

Thank you for your help!

Lori