What is compassion? What is not compassion? Discussion of behavior of governments, etc.
Kenneth Stremsky
proud citizen of the United States of America. Tried to take my photo at night and it looks like Solar Eclipse.
compassion
www.dictionary.com/browse/compassion
"a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering"
compassion
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compassion
": sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it"
What Is Compassion - You go to a village near rivers that have fish and see they do not have enough food to eat. You give them food. You teach them how to make fishing rods, teach them how to fish, give them seeds, and teach them how to grow many crops.
What Is Not Compassion - You go to a village near rivers that have fish and see they do not have enough food to eat. You steal their food. You steal their fish. You cut down their trees so so they are not able to make fishing rods. You build dams to steal their water for a hydroelectric plant.
Help Make America Compassionate Again. Title from Eric J. Schneidewind's AARP Article. Many topics are discussed.
It has quotes from Patsy Takemoto Mink, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, George Washington, General John Stark, Alexander Hamilton.
www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/help-make-america-compassionate-again-title-from-eric-stremsky/?published=t
What Is Compassion - Bulova teaching disabled Veterans how to fix watches for over 50 years. Bulova was training disabled Veterans how to fix watches decades before Americans With Disabilities Act was passed. Bulova made sure people who used Wheelchairs were able to get training. Bulova helped people who used Wheelchairs play different sports.
What Is Not Compassion - city governments that allow tables and chairs to take up too much space on sidewalks which endangers the lives of people who Wheelchairs. Forcing people who use Wheelchairs off sidewalks into busy streets increasing their odds of deaths is not compassion.
What Is Not Compassion - Over 80,000 dead since 2004 while on waitlist for Social Security Disability. Congress took over $2 trillion from Social Security to pay for military and other things. Members of Congress did not employ enough Administrative Law Judges.
Actuarial Note Number 159
May 2018 pdf
Social Security Administration
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/n2010s.html
GAO in 2003 discussed Social Security Disability backlog
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao/gao-03-662
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Part of my plan for Social Security. People died in Puerto Rico because military was not used way it should have been used - Operation Varsity WW2 through humanitarian aid drops in Iraq when Obama was President.
WHAT IS COMPASSION -
A white mother went to Alabama to fight for civil rights. The Klan killed her for it.
by Donna Brit
December 15, 2017
WHAT IS COMPASSION
Spotlighting the work of women in the civil rights movement's Freedom Rides
by Anna Holmes
June 2, 2011
WHAT IS EVIL
Lynching memorial shows women were victims, too.
by Evelyn M. Simien
Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
2018
theconversation.com/lynching-memorial-shows-women-were-victims-too-95029
What Is Not Compassion - People in Flint, Michigan harmed dealing with water while Michigan elected officials steal from people of Michigan by selling water cheaply to Nestle.
A tiny Michigan town is in a water fight with Nestle
February 04, 2018
www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-04/tiny-michigan-town-water-fight-nestle
"Nestle pays just $200 a year to the state of Michigan to pump more than 130 million gallons of water."
Congress should fix this mess and other similar messes. Nestle and other companies that take lot of water should have to pay all the infrastructure costs of taking this water plus a minimum price that is lot more than $ 200 a year for 100 million gallons of water. Nestle should have to pay at least what a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire has to pay for water from local water company. Companies should not be allowed to pay a lower rate for water than residents have to pay. Congress should care lot more about environmental harm caused by taking so much water in a year.
THE COST OF NESTLE WATER: TINY MICHIGAN TOWN CLAIMS BOTTLED WATER COMPANY HARMS LOCAL RIVER
by Linley Sanders
2/5/18
www.newsweek.com/nestle-michigan-town-bottled-water-river-799495
What Is Not Compassion
'They killed our city': Sedona residents confront lawmaker over short-term rentals
by Lorraine Longhi
July 26, 2019
"The move comes as residents of the tourist hotspot grapple with the consequences of a two-year-old state laws that restricts how cities and towns can regulate short-term home rentals advertised on websites such as Airbnb or VRBO."
" But most residents insisted that local control must be returned to the city so that it can manage the number of investors buying up homes to turn into short-term rentals. "
"We never anticipated that somebody would go into a neighborhood, purchase a home and turn into a mini-hotel," Thorpe said. "
EVER WONDER WHAT PLANET MANY ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE ON. YOU KNOW TYPE - NO HIJACKINGS ON PLANES FOR MANY YEARS SO ALLOWED MOST AIR MARSHALS TO COME OFF PLANES AND REFUSED TO HARDEN COCKPITS BEFORE 9/11.
Another example - Bankers and others commit suicide during Great Depression. Bankers went to prison after Savings and Loan Crisis when Bush 1 was President. Moron economists, morons in Congress, other morons in government said could trust bankers and deregulate banks. National debt increased by trillions. Foreclosure suicides took place dealing with housing crisis.
Stupidity of city governments, stupidity of state governments, and stupidity of Congress one of main reasons USA does not have enough affordable housing and so many homeless people.
What Is Not Compassion - Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe
When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty - and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.
by Stacy Cowley
July 19, 2019
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html
Corrupt members of Congress and incompetent members of Congress who lacked compassion supported the deregulation of banks after the Savings and Loan Crisis. Bankers and others committed suicides during the Great Depression.
Many bankers went to prison after the Savings and Loan Crisis when Bush 1 was president.
Deregulation of banks after Savings and Loan Crisis led to national debt increasing by trillions of dollars and foreclosure suicides dealing with housing crisis.
When are members of Congress going to do their jobs and pass federal laws that protect people and businesses that have safe deposit boxes. There should be "federal laws governing the boxes" - rules that "require banks to compensate customers if their property is stolen or destroyed." What protects customers of banks now from bank employees who steal things from safe deposit boxes.
Congress and "The Office of the Controller of the Currency, the banking industry's main federal overseer" should realize the huge importance of regulating safe deposit boxes. Safe deposit boxes help protect copies of home insurance policies, auto insurance policies, living wills, estate plans, durable power of attorneys for financial matters, durable power of attorneys for health care. If your house burns down, the only place that might still have important documents is safe deposit box.
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What Is Compassion - The DIY Girls
How 12 teens invented a solar-powered tent for the homeless
by Brittany Levine Beckman
2017
https://mashable.com/2017/06/15/diy-girls-solar-powered-tent-homeless/
"In the San Fernando Valley, homelessness increased 36% to 7,094 people last year, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency's annual count. Daniela and her friends wanted to help, but giving money wasn't an option."
"That was the starting point for their invention: a solar-powered tent that folds up into a rollaway backpack. The girls and 10 others from their high school had never done any hands-on engineering work before, but with the help of Youtube, Google, and trial-and-error, they got it done."
What Is Not Compassion - government tearing down homeless tent cities and not replacing them in better places. It has been well known for many years that many homeless Veterans and other homeless people are not able to live in apartments or shelters because of PTSD. I watched in 1988 - Home Street Home with Tom Brokaw that discussed Homeless Vietnam Veterans, other homeless people, solutions. Many homeless veterans and other homeless people may be able to live in tent cities that have buildings near them with medical staff, tutoring, bathrooms, showers, etc.
When is Congress going to fix mess dealing with foreclosures, fix mess dealing with homes being taken because not paying taxes and/or fines?
Disabled Arizona veteran whose mobile home was auctioned off will get to stay
by Robert Anglen, Rebekah L. Sanders
July 20, 2019
A Florida woman was fined $100,000 for a dirty pool and overgrown grass. When do fines become excessive?
States, cities and counties cooled billions of dollars in fines. The Supreme Court raised the possibility that some are going too far.
by Kristine Phillips
July 19, 2019
Excessive fines have never been constitutional because of Amendment Eight of Constitution. States, cities, and counties that have imposed excessive fines should have to pay back the money they have stolen plus interest and punitive damages. Many elected officials and other government employees should receive long prison sentences.
Amendment Eight of the Constitution was ratified for many reasons. Our founding fathers were harmed by excessive fines and excessive bail. Charging a person a fine the person is not able to pay is an excessive fine. Putting a person in jail because not able to afford bail is excessive bail. Fines and bail need to be based on what the person is able to pay.
Governments that have put people in jail because not able to afford bail should have to pay damages to the people they have harmed - putting people in prison without a conviction for a crime. Many elected officials, judges, etc should be put in prison for giving people excessive bail. Many of our founding fathers were harmed by excessive bail.
Bill of Rights
www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
Damages are not fines. You cause a car accident that causes many millions of dollars in damages you may be held liable for millions of dollars.
What Is Compassion - businesses help people learn to read with phonics.
What Is Not Compassion - city governments, school boards, schools do not care USA has over 30 million functional illiterates because city governments, school boards, schools refused to teach children how to read with phonics.
What Is Not Compassion - Parents are warned their children could be put in foster care over lunch debt
"This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to Dependency Court for neglecting your child's right to food," the Pennsylvania district wrote.
by Minyvonne Burke
July 19, 2019
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-are-warned-their-children-could-be-put-foster-care-n1031721
People who sent out letter should spend some time in prison for threatening to kidnap children.
Over 30 million functional illiterates in USA because schools have refused to teach how to read by using phonics for over 50 years.
Kidnapping of children is evil.
Super huge difference between parents who are a Danger to their children and parents who are NOT A DANGER TO THEIR CHILDREN.
WHEN WILL CONGRESS FIX MANY OF THE PROBLEMS DEALING WITH THE FOSTER-CARE CRISIS IN THE USA????
Texas foster-care crisis: Children sleeping in CPS offices again as more removed from homes but state out of places to care for them
by Robert T. Garrett
Mar 2016
The hidden harms of the US foster-care system
by Lenette Azzi-Lessing
Associate Professor of Social Work, Wheelock College
January 22, 2016
theconversation.com/the-hidden-harms-of-the-us-foster-care-system-49700
What Is Not Compassion - city government denies disabled people the ability to travel because it does not want to make healthy college students walk a short distance. Person fills out an application for transportation service that is required by the Americans With Disabilities Act. Person gets approved and then told has to travel to within 3/4 miles of fixed bus route before van will pick person up - think about how evil this would be if person is paralyzed and the reason why the person is not within 3/4 miles of fixed bus route is because city government refuses to use Union Street on 45 minute routes of route 5 to go to SNHU and then River Road after leaving SNHU. The bus would take students to their apartments at Colonial Village on River Road after leaving SNHU. City Government does not want students who want to get home quickly to have to walk a short distance from Union Street to Colonial Village on River Road. I think SNHU students are smart enough to walk a short distance from Union Street to Colonial Village on River Road. When will City Government think SNHU students are smart enough to take a short walk from Union Street to River Road? Why should this matter to you? "The sobering fact for 20-year-olds is that 1-in-4 of them becomes disabled before reaching retirement age." - The Faces and Facts of Disability from Social Security Administration
www.ssa.gov/disabilityfacts/facts.html
How transit-oriented development can provide affordable housing
by James Fraser, Anna Whitus, Seth Gulsby, Nichload Donkoh, Zach Glendening
May 22, 2017
Affordable housing and transit should go handing-hand
by Michael Ryan
April 28, 2016
https://mobilitylab.org/2016/04/28/affordable-housing-and-transit/
Better bus system is for city more this benefits affordable housing.
High quality bus service in Manchester - more of Manchester covered by buses, some bus routes more frequent coverage, more being hours, Sunday bus service would allow Manchester to have very tall buildings like Boston has downtown and parking garages to be built far away from them. City Government could require more low income apartments and more middle income apartments be built in the apartment towers than luxury apartments.
Federal Transit Administration - November 2015 Circular dealing with Americans With Disabilities Act
Chapter 8 - Complimentary Paratransit Service
https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/Final_FTA_ADA_Circular_C_4710.1.pdf
The bottom of Manchester plan has helping homeless people and disabled people find work and other things. The plan includes new bus routes that may benefit SNHU students
Soldiers go to War and many become disabled and/or homeless. Does Manchester care? Helping Manchester's students. Transportation, housing, etc.
City Government of Manchester, New Hampshire is discriminating against disabled people dealing with StepSaver from Manchester Transit Authority
If city government adds $700,000 or more to budget of Manchester Transit Authority, it could increase tax base of Manchester by millions of dollars
Quotes from Jeff Rapsis who was the Associate Publisher of The Manchester Express - City Transportation: You can't get there from here from 2008 on
Ghost buses? NO. Ghost SNHU Arena and Ghost airport - future of Manchester, NH? Response to May 2008 editorial from Union Leader
www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/ghost-buses-snhu-arena-airport-future-manchester-nh-stremsky/?published=t
What Is Not Compassion - Eisenhower overthrowing Guatemala in 1954 because of business ties United Fruit had with Eisenhower administration.
The Dulles Brothers
... how to wreak havoc in Guatemala and Iran...
by Ebrahim Norouzi, MD
April 7, 2010
www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/dulles-brothers/
What Is Not Compassion - Congress refusing to keep guns from pouring into Mexico and Central America under many presidents leading to many murders in Mexico and Central America.
What Is Not Compassion - Congress not caring about females being murdered in Central America.
What Is Not Compassion - members of Congress refusing to do their jobs dealing with immigration, trade, currency, military, etc. They took an oath of office and then they steal from the American people when they refuse to do the jobs the Constitution requires them to do.
What Is Not Compassion - members of Congress allowing children of refugees to be stolen from their parents.
What Is Not Compassion - providing lousy government run health care to Native Americans on Reservations.
What Is Not Compassion - providing lousy health care to soldiers and veterans.
What Is Not Compassion - forced Sterilization done to black females, females from Puerto Rico, Native American females. Native American Code Talkers saved the lives of lot of soldiers World War 1, World War 2. The Indian Health Service in the 1960s and 1970s did forced Sterilization on Native American females.
The Little-Known History of the Forced Sterilization of Native American Women
Jane Lawrence documents the forced sterilization of thousands of Native American Women by the Indian Health Service in the 1960s and 1970s.
by Erin Blakemore
August 25, 2016
What Is Not Compassion - US Supreme Court and Congress not caring about sky high murder rate for Native American females because of Supreme Court of United States of America and Congress.
Ending Violence Against Native Women
https://indianlaw.org/issue/ending-violence-against-native-women
Part 1 of Rich people - Instead of a Wealth Tax
Introduction and Number 1 - Native Americans
number 2 - Agent Orange and Vietnam Veterans and Vietnam, bombs in Vietnam and Laos
number 10 - donate to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
number 11 - buses and affordable housing
number 12 - donate to Holocaust Memorial Museum
number 14 - buy Solar Cookers and give them away
number 15 - help disabled people
number 18 - help save the lives of females in Central America and other places
number 19 - help save the lives of prostitutes and reduce human trafficking
Part 2 of Rich people - Instead of a Wealth Tax
number 23 - improve health care provided by military hospitals and VA, build new Military hospitals and new VA Hospitals
Number 24 - Improve child care and k-12 education
number 37 - Wealthy people could help pay for repairs in Puerto Rico and other places harmed by Hurricanes and other things
number 50 - Wealthy people should use their power and influence to break up our largest banks to decrease the odds of a Depression worse than the Great Depression
number 51 - Wealthy people may help fund pensions of police officers, fire fighters, teachers, and other government employees without Increasing tax rates and New taxes.
number 52 - Wealthy people may fund attorneys for black people, white people, and others who may get the death penalty. Many innocent people have been executed.
number 53 - police officers not testing rape kits. Wealthy people may pay to get rape kits tested.
number 54 - treatment of drug addiction and treatment of alcohol addiction
number 56 - harm caused by increasing Minimum Wage to $15
number 57 - decrease pay of executives who should make less money
number 43 - employ new police officers in Central America to Save lives
number 60 - Marshall Plans in Central America, Mexico, United States of America, etc run by Historically Black colleges and Universities
number 59 - fire members of Congress who go out of way to make people poor and harm retirements
number 58 - Gerrymandering and Poll taxes
number 61 - Inflation is Solved??? Does the Tooth Fairy work for dentists via commission plan that includes yearly bonuses for tooth extractions beyond X x amount
part 3 of Rich people - Instead of a Wealth Tax
Some questions
Number 22 - improving nursing home care and Trial by Jury, Amendment 7
Number 64 - Wealthy people may fund Modern Homestead Act in many countries.
Number 65 - Wealthy people may provide free college educations in many countries.
number 69 - Wealthy people may use their power and influence to fire city government elected officials and state government elected officials who harm disabled people who use Wheelchairs and/or disabled people who do not use Wheelchairs
number 70 - WEALTHY people may help pay for training of athletes who participate in Special Olympics
Number 73 - Wealthy people may help small businesses in many countries export their products and help them grow by giving them long term loans that do not charge interest, loans do not have to start being paid off for more than 10 years, and have more than 30 years to pay off the loans
part 1 - Rich people - Instead of a Wealth tax. Better ways you may help people and planet. Response to I'm in the 1 Percent. Please, Raise My Taxes
part 2 - Rich people - Instead of a Wealth Tax. Better ways you may help people and planet. Response to I'm in the 1 percent. Please, Raise My Taxes
www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/part-2-rich-people-instead-wealth-tax-better-ways-you-stremsky/?published=t
part 3 - Rich people - Instead of a Wealth Tax. Better ways you may help people and planet. Response to I'm in the 1 percent. Please, Raise My Taxes
www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/part-3-rich-people-instead-wealth-tax-better-ways-you-stremsky/?published=t