| MORPHEAL'S SOCIAL COMMENTARY - 191208 |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2008/12/19 11:08 |
On the question of CODE OF CONDUCT for educators:
I firmly believe that all teachers should have full psychiatric
assessments before being permitted to teach. Partly this is to protect
those who become educators from later allegations that they are
unsuitable, or mentally unfit for the profession, as much as it is to
protect those they educate. I am saying all educators at all levels,
including those of professorial rank.
I also believe that regular drug tests should be mandatory and
specific drugs and mental health conditions should be banned from the
profession. Not all substances, legal or illegal, are necessarily
harmful to the conduct of proper educating, but some are and we must
learn to discriminate properly rather than improperly.
I also believe that the personal lives of employees only become
properly the concern of employers when it has a detrimental effect on
work performance and conduct on the job. That is true of any
employment or profession. To some extent the employer has the
responsibility of bringing the problem to the attention of the
employee and both have a responsibility to negotiate an effective
resolution, inclusive of any professional assistance required for
remedy, where the conduct is not such as to be a danger to others. Of
greater concern is an effective retraining of teachers as to how to
instill discipline and keep order in today's classroom. Most are lost
souls on that issue. They are even lost on expressing that issue and
how it is affecting their performance and health.
On the question of OIL PRICING:
Some nations can pump and sell oil, in exchange for foreign currency,
at very low prices. In a free market, free enterprise, system they
have a right to do so. In some instances they can do so to prove that
the free system is a failure, and they are likely to do so for that
purpose if they find they have a chance to do so.
Clearly we do need a worldwide base price, based on averaged cost of
production for the major producers. This needs to be updated and
published regularly. Unregulated deep valleys will lead to higher
peaks in pricing in the struggle to achieve profitable balance, but a
maximum is also necessary to stop the simple fact of an unethical and
ignorant world of human greed which otherwise takes anything it can
get. I think that the free market, free enterprise, system of pricing
oil and other similar commodities is rapidly coming to a complete end.
This is a direct product of the American led globalization fostering
the creation of a world economy, furthering economic evolution in ways
that the American system could not predict and cannot offer any real
and immediate solutions to, in terms of the narrowness of its
ideological beliefs. The American view of unregulated human nature as
being essentially good is simply as much a false myth as that of the
merely the primitive belief of what will be soon considered a
primitive system.
On the question of NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (UK) dental care:
One of the things we need the most in Canada is a national dental
plan, included in our healthcare plan. So we, in Canada, can be truly
envious of the UK NHS offering, despite its limitations.At least it is
progressive rather than the regressive American stress upon free
enterprise privatization of health care which brings with it nothing
but increased problems for the largest portion of the population.
Problems that the system itself is unwilling to admit to. Further
indications that American economics is more kindred to religion rather
than science.
Private plans also create immense age and health based discrimination
in employment and do not in any way serve social justice. Similar
discrimination then affects minority groups which are seen as needier,
and a cause of increased premium costs to employers.
For more than half the population the high costs of dental care can
create immense hardship and uncompetitiveness. When dental needs take
money that is badly needed for other purposes that often puts the
victims out of social and economic competition in a society where much
of what is to be valued in life is dependent on economic status.
Teeth are as much a part of the body and its health as is any other
part of the anatomy. So in Canada we can only hope for a national
dental plan in the near future. Certainly the discrimination against
teeth, when every other part of the human body is taken care of by the
national healthcare plan is questionable in legal terms. How can a
healthcare plan discriminate against teeth ? It is utterly
irrational.
Robert Morpheal
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