Complaints About Public Officials Cannot be Released?

   Utah Attorney General John Swallow says that telling the media about complaint filed against him violates the state bar's rules of ethics.
   Really? That sounds like one rule that ought to be changed. It just cannot be that we make it illegal for complaints against public officials to be disclosed to the public.
  

Background Checks are the Right Idea

   Senator Orrin Hatch would have background checks, and DNA testing added to the Gang of Eight's immigration bill. Amending the bill to add the background checks sounds wise. The DNA testing sounds good, also, until you consider it probably will not pass constitutional muster concerning searches.
   Don't even put it in the bill if you know it is going to be constitutionally ill-founded.
   The background checks? If it is crime we are wanting to stop from coming across the border, if it is terrorism we are hoping to avoid, yes, background checks are the right thing. While most countries do not have as good of national background bases as we do in the U.S., at least contact their home city, or home province.

Let In the Ones Who Money Wants In

   I do wonder how many of the proposals for immigration reform get their start. Are lobbyists behind them?Who proposes who we should let into this country? It is as if the reformers are saying, These are the ones we're going to let in, the ones that money wants in.
   I want more immigrants to be allowed here, but wish it didn't almost seem as if the invitations were being issued by those with money, on the basis of the desires of those who are rich.
   Who will we let into America? The ones that money will have? If an industry is needing high-tech workers, do we say, Let them in? If an industry is needing If an industry (paid prisons) are making good money off jailing souls till they are deported, do we continue to require them to return to their home countries? I suppose that will be okay with me, as long as we do not jail them in paid prisons while we await their departure. 

I Run Into Those Suffering for Food

  By the time I got home from the charity banquet, I had already ran into someone who said they grew up missing food, and even now she struggles to feed her children. The next day, I ran into a lady who said she might not be going hungry, but she sometimes can afford no more than a simple sandwich for lunch. I consider that there are probably a lot of folks like that.
   Utah, fourth in the nation in hunger? Utah, where one in five children suffer hunger? I do not know, but wonder.

Utah is Fourth in the Nation in Hunger

   Utah ranks fourth in the nation in hunger. And, it has one five of its children who suffer hunger. Such are the statistics I heard tonight. Surprising, aren't they. I do question them, though, just not being able to believe the numbers are that unfavorable, that that many people are going hungry here.
   Hungry, I said, not starving. It was explained that the measurement was going without just one meal in a day.

Unemployment Stands at 19.2 percent?

   Cannot find it.
   Heard a story on KSL Radio today, saying that there are different ways of measuring unemployment, and, by one measurement, the national unemployment sits at 19.2 percent.
   Sit on that. Think about it. That is not so far removed from -- what was it, 24 percent -- during the Great Depression? Back when the Great Depression was starting, it is true, there were not the safety nets we have today, unemployment insurance and much of the welfare programs. So, if you were unemployed, the danger of having no source of food was greater.
  Still, if this 19.2 percent is true, our unemployment is great. Will a nation wilt, eventually, if it does not have greater employment? I only know it cannot be healthy for the economy. That is obvious, isn't it?

The Poor Immigrants Also Deserve a Break

   What has it been, two weeks on since the Gang of Eight released their immigration reform proposal?
   I still haven't caught up with what all is in it, but I do understand it offers more opportunity for the educated than for the common worker.
   I sure would like to see us throw an arm around the common workers, the day laborers, the people who come here willing to work for a pittance. These are the people who deserve a break.