Rhode Island’s State Treasurer Bests A Congressional Hearing to Balance A Budget
December 15th, 2011
December 15,2011
Too bad Gina Raimondo wasn’t a panel member on the failed Committee of Congress picked to find a solution on balancing the Federal Budget. Perhaps if there was gender equality in our United States Senate and women like the Rhode Island’s State Treasurer represented Rhode Island and sat as a member the outcome would have been different.
“Government worked tonight” she uttered after winning the approval of Rhode Island’s general assembly according to a December 5th article in Time magazine. Unlike the Congressional Committee which resolved nothing, this brave woman did her homework for several months and addressed a town hall meeting “this is about math,not politics.” Tough decisions like “raising the retirement age,tying pension boosts to the health of the fund and partially replacing guaranteed benefits with something like 401 (k) accounts.” These decisions kept Rhode Island from the brink of bankruptcy.
Female Equality in the United States Senate
October 20th, 2011
One other project I intend to pursue is about the unequal representation
women in our country have at the national level. In 2011 this passion
will come to fruition in the form of a blog. The United States Senate
has l00 representatives. I believe that each state should have one
female and one male representing them. This could easily be done if the
l7th Amendment added this addendum.
November 23,2011
The stalemates in Congress we hear about regularly could be caused by the lack of women’s ingenuity, and ideas. For example the latest bi-partison-Committee that was suppose to come to a compromise on lowering the trillion dollar debt failed. Could it be our country needs more qualified women in Congress to propose new and fresh ideas?
AASU Graduation
September 13th, 2011
After acquiring a Liberal Arts Degree from Armstrong University in May of 2010, I find myself writing and editing pro-bono for a publication Something Special. This magazine is for parents of special needs children. Information collected voluntarily by parents of these individuals and included in the quarterly issues, supplies other parents with knowledge of what works and what doesn’t in the care of their siblings.
`Parents of all children benefit by this publication as well. It is distributed locally throughout the Chatham County area at no cost to them. In addition to this I have published a memoir called From the South Bronx to Savannah.
