And you learn about everything that is going on in their lives, things that they have never told a soul, and many of them, especially the boys, will never tell another person. So many of the young men with whom you work will be married fathers, grandfathers, holding on to the thing that you have heard. We hear this conversation about how we need to have health care, universal health care, universal health care, but we re not talking about universal Mental Health care because you are silent. The doctors are organized. The teachers are organized. The trash workers are organized. The social workers, you know, just being social workers. We are just out there doing the work. I submit to you that if your interest is to transform the circumstances in which our young people and adults are living, then we have to work towards more political activism. A true social worker works with the society, not just with the individual. It is not enough for you to just serve your clients. It is not enough t
Interests are there. They can really be that Democratic State we have always sought in the middle east from the u. S. Perspective. One of the frustrating things, i think in the past decade, and what really has been revealing to me, is the notion of democracy is a way to bring these things together is a broad philosophy. A flawed philosophy. It is not going to bring about the result we want. We will not see another version this nited states in these countries, due to the ethnic and tribal differences that have been there for centuries. So i am for looking at breaking up these countries or allowing them to cook autonomous. That doesnt just apply to iraq. Somalia is an example where we have seen a country that has functioned as three countries or nationstates for quite some time. That could actually give us allies, it could give us some sort of strength in the region. Rather than trying to compete with other adversaries like iran to push our influence in a country like iraq. I am open to
Waiting as the governors get settled around her conference table at the National Governors association. This is their winter meeting held annually in washington, d. C. Of iowa Terry Branstad will be joining us tomorrow morning on washington journal to talk about his work. Were waiting for the first session to begin, titled America Works, session and job training. The guest on the first panel of the day, ceo and chair of general electric, Jeffrey Immelt. To the be talking governor. Governor mary fallin of oklahoma is the chair of the nga this year. Governor John Hickenlooper of colorado. And later today, a look at ,omeland security for the state 3 00 eastern time. Tomorrow, a special session on growth and jobs in america with moderator and business journalist who is now with fox business network. Just waiting for the session to begin as the governors start their day at the National Governors Association Winter meeting. Who will begin in just a moment. Please take your seats we will begi
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Have jim fong and we have edgar right here and then i think that is all that is here tonight. So the board wants to thank you for your work. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, as i was saying we have had a number of Program Managers that are part of managing the funds here, and we are really appreciative of all of the work that they have done to present the material to us and we have at times in the past presentations from them and we had written reports from them this year and the first area that i want to talk about is professional development and this is an area that we as an Oversight Committee are trying to understand better and where the funds fit into the Bigger Picture for the professional support, and as you know there were budget cuts a few years ago where the state funding for professional development was it was flexed and so there more funding that paid for the three days of professional development and so essentially qta took over those three days and this year, back for