what do you thinks political policy?

Question

1. Describe the four factors that shape the American approach to welfare policy, and discuss why this system is quite different from those found in European nations.
2. Describe the major elements of the system, including the Social Security Act of 1935, the Medicare Act of 1965, the abolition of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, and the development of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.
3. Explain why some welfare policies involve majoritarian politics, while others involve client politics. Give examples and indicate the political consequences of each.
4. Discuss the politics of welfare reform.

Answer 1

1. Social policy may be influenced by religion and the religious beliefs of politicians.

2. In United States politics, social policies are those which regulate and govern human behavior in areas such as sexuality and general morality. Social policies are in contrast to other, more traditional forms of political policy, such as foreign policy and economic policy. Modern-day social policies may deal with the following issues:

abortion, and the regulation of its practice
the legal status of euthanasia
the rules surrounding issues of marriage, divorce, and adoption
poverty, welfare, and homelessness and how it is to deal with these issues
the legal status of recreational drugs
the legal status of prostitution

3. Political conservatives as a whole generally favor a more traditionalist approach that favors individual initiative and private enterprise in social policy. Political liberals, on the other hand favor the guarantee of equal rights and entitlements to all people and tend to favor state regulation or insurance to support this.

4. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security. In an academic environment, social policy refers to the study of the welfare state and the range of responses to social need.

Answer 2

Like you, Bush was a liberal. There were many things I didn't agree with him on. "Any student of the constitution knows there is no religious test for office and that the Government cannot establish or destroy a religion." True, but the part you don't want to hear is, our own government was the very first organization that printed the King James Bible in this country. So much for this lie about separation of church and state. Furthermore, I wouldn't as anyone to be religious. We have enough people going to hell because of religion as it is. What you and many others don't understand is, Christianity and religion are not one in the same. People only assume so for whatever reason. I will, however, agree with you that religion is vacuous. It is base on false hope. Base on the Bible and the Bible alone, Beck is only religious. He's a mormon. I don't listen to him very often. But I don't do it because he's a mormon.