The Political Platform that has yet to be addressed!

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The Political Platform that has yet to be addressed!!
Posted Jan 7
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The Political Platform that has yet to be addressed!! The City of Norfolk is a wonderful place for a select few like so many other places in the United States of America. I can talk about change and I can be the symbol of real change. Credit History Reports as a use of employment requirement. What happen to the qualifications and experience being enough for the job in which you seek. We eliminate those because instead of the content of their character we address the social woes in order to be the requirement to eliminate those that only seek for a chance to those that have been given second chances because of financial dominance. Its easier for us to find ways not to find someone qualified but criminal history isnt enough but had to go to another source which is irrelevant to the mandate and requirements of the job. We strive for better jobs to handle and facilitate our struggles to do better. It is instead determined more so by the rich to stay rich which would only yield jobs not based off the qualification but the income bracket. It is a time to change this within our city government but also to those in which we choose to conduct business. Government is suppose to represent the people not particular people. I've lived my life without the silver fork, but it would just be luxury to have that simple fork mixed in to other items on my plate. How about we look into other peoples background on the same social ailment. The ailment of the silver fork putting in their extra silver forks to keep their family secure based off one criteria as others do not matter. It is hard to get terminated especially when you are the one controlling the day to day operations of the business. The business itself seeks many different avenues to discouraged as a key word other applicants, but won't regulate nor have to within its own ranks. Gangs - Their is not a big enough gang than the city of Norfolk. We need to use this gang in order to plant seeds to change the motive of our growth. The seeds in itself that we plant in Norfolk. It is a beautiful city to select some and a very determinant of wealth to a select few. How many other than athletics and music have been able to extend fruits which have spread out seeds into our community. These seeds continue to grow but as a city do nothing to exploit the positives but fester the negatives. The music itself is real live imitation of social ills that have consume our city. It is a message that decision makers choose not to hear, and instead choose to lock up as a branch of society that is wrong. What are we doing to prevent the mass traffic of crime in our city. The traffic is based off jails instead of prevention. Lock them up before they have a chance to pick the prison. We can not heal until we decide to confront the issues of the past leading up to today. I challenge and do not hope for businesses to take on these youths into their headquarters. I would like for these youth to plant seeds into their neighborhoods that it is a brighter future. The brighter future is the elements of today. The drug dealer and the pimp which are striking forces into our communities. Their voices heard louder than anything that can be said at a town meeting. Our answer is to lock them up and instead not use them to bring in a new breed of minds urging for direction. The politicians are scared to walk on the same street while the real citizens are on those streets everyday. What makes a select few better than most. It is our challenge to seek and find the truth. The youth of this city and every other city are looking for answers and solutions. We create tested measures in order to bring safety to other parts of our city instead of looking at all of our city. Norfolk is not broken up because it is what the people call for in this state of recession. Norfolk needs someone that considers Norfolk/ Norfolk and not some 5 point. Five points in different directions but no one will go in all of those directions to bring out the voice of the people. The people is the city of Norfolk and not Norfolk is just another city. My proposal is simple and I have challenged those on the board. Instead of meeting to discuss gangs, than how about meetings to talk with the gang leaders. Most gangs are built because the protective mechanism of the police have been compromise not by the city but by the peoples eyes that witness their constant impact on their community. Most are derived by the principles of self defense, but only the negative words can be heard. I do not think so because it is plenty of gangs in the city of Norfolk. It is just that the city of Norfolk wont recognize itself as a gang. Initiate programs that invite them to sit at the table and take a look into their eyes. Our eyes are blind to the madness that goes on through their minds. Lock them up with no prevention instead of prevention before they do get locked up. We will see their criminal records first before we even decide to acknowledge them before it even got started. We have plenty of dealers so why dont we use these dealers to give out knowledge instead of death. We are all products of our environment. Our environments always have a different path when aligned amongst others. We want to punish those by association but it is plenty of associations if we dig deep enough into people closets that have the same influences as our present state. The state of not knowing and not being accountable. The responsibility falls on our youth that are not as educated and knowledgeable as others. The others need to take the rubber gloves off and put their real hand into the mix. It is so much that a city as a hole can know about each other to bring in a better Norfolk for all and not for some. My next issue which is long overdue is the landlord tenant act. If the laws of the state are not going to protect us than it needs to be a influential figure that will do everything in its power to make up for the lack. Our citizens are constantly in and out of court having their roof over their head taken away not because of being able to pay the rent, but due to the expenses incurred during the time frame of occupancy. A leak should not have 100 percent responsibility if no responsibility is being address to the party. How many of the citizens have went into court over problems in their rented habitat but have no recourse of actions being address to the sole proprietor. Escrow is easy for those with the income to facilitate but how about those that work to facilitate the little that they have left. You are expected to move with 100 percent upfront responsibility but even if someone had 75 percent of the matter that you still are held to that situation. A person living check to check has no voice even though its a voice that needs to be heard. Most lawyers will insist in the state of Virginia that the laws benefit the landlord. This projection was not made by citizens but lawyers who try their best to give people a fair hearing. If it is unfair from the start than how can it be fair at the ending. If the law was meant to protect everyone than one side would not have the benefit of the potential outcome. The people losing their houses are trying to have a voice but how about the people just trying to keep their apartment. We cant address everyone problem but we can make it fair to all those involved to have a fair and just greviance to their situation through a open eye of the court. The statutes are meant to favor landlords and not meant to favor citizens whether landlord or tenant. This needs to change. How we address this needs to change. You want people to pay their bills than give them the jobs in order to pay their bills. My proposal is to have a independent inspector made mandatory that knows the history of the place being rented or occupied, inspect the place before any major changes are done to make a case look better than the others. The first 48 hours are important than make a notice to people leaving a possible place with indiscrepancies have that same opportunity. Make it mandatory for this option to be address to a tenant before and after their move out date. This opens up a fair interpretation of rights to both parties. Second, bring in the value of those damages being proposed by both sides at the fair rate of the time of move out. It is so often for apartments to ask for brand new prices over used items. We have a car blue book than it needs the same value rates of items in those complexes to be addressed. Why should anyone pay for blinds 2 to 4 years old as brand new when they no longer carry the value. At will employment in this state is another issue that needs to be address. Employment has been made that within 30 days you can terminate employment without any financial risk to your business. Most employers use this as a reason whether good or bad to bring in who they want and lose who may be capable at anytime. It needs to be recourse based off good job performance and being on time for unemployment benefits. The time frame is good, but it has to be done fairly and not done as a matter of convenience to the business. This type of employment eliminates rights that should be afforded not only to the citizens of Norfolk, but to the citizens of the United States of America. This form is used to protect the business, but where is it in the form to protect you the employee. Youth Employment - Stop sending our youths in the summer time to just clean up schools. We have a very sexiest idea going on that ladies should be in the office and the men should be cleaning them out. We needs to have transparancy in these departments in order to uplift all youth. I think us all as citizens of the city of Norfolk would like to see our youth learning the jobs in which they seek at a higher academic level. This stimulates growth within your business and gives a better outlook of those applying. It is hard for us to say a janitor has the qualifications for a administrative or executive job. If we put into their minds that they are capable and give direction than it benefits the business and the city as a whole. Instead of raising the next criminal of Norfolk. We are raising and making our youth into the leaders that we want them to be instead of the ones that are becoming what most expect. If we can eliminate this form of thinking that everyone other than our own kind is a threat than the door is open for us to all work together. We should build up our own kind first and let the city of Norfolk be a learning curve to other cities. This takes more than just my help. It takes a community, business, and those that care about us all instead of a few to make a city better. I believe this is capable with open minds and hearts to bring in those that have lost theirs. If we can uplift a few bad apples than we can spoil a bunch. I challenge Norfolk to confront the issues of today and make it a agenda tommorow. If not than we need someone that will. I have been there and done that. I relate to people because I have struggle in the similar environment. Im just sad to know I waited until today to wake up. I will make a choice to wake up and do something about it. I hope that one bad seed in the past can be a good seed for those in the future. I'm not the drug dealer that sales death, but the dealer that sales a better life.