P SC 1113 1st Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I Economic Insecurity a Unemployment affects blue and white collar workers II Social Upheaval a Breakdown of traditional families b High school dropout rates c Rate of imprisonment d Loss of good teachers in public schools III Potential Solutions a Government run orphanages b WPA type program c Job training program d Government job subsidies to employers Outline of Current Lecture I Volunteerism a George Bush 1000 points of light b Social Capital i Bowling alone ii Civic Engagement These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute II Political System Needs Reform a Congressional staff i 1940s 2000 ii Today 38000 b Congressional Committees i 1940s 38 ii Today over 200 c Revolving Door d Campaign Finance III Devolution a Federal employees i 1970s 2 4 million ii today 2 million b State and local employees i 1970s 6 million ii today 16 million IV Civil Rights in Oklahoma a Sipuel Case 1948 Current Lecture I Social Capital a Voluntarism Americans give 6 7x as much as the rest of the world b Bowling Alone c in the last 50 years more than of all the clubs and organizations in the US have disappeared garden clubs etc II Government is all clogged up a At the end of WWII congress had 2000 employees but now there s between 3040k b In the 1940s there were around 38 different committees i Now there s over 200 with the average senator belonging to 12 of them ii There are assistants for every committee and they end up doing most of the work c We re called the greatest deliberative government in the world but when do they even have time to talk to each other III Revolving Door a Government officials take jobs in the private sector b The minute you retire from a government job you get offered a big job in the private sector c Makes people wonder where their loyalty had been the whole time i Are they working for Americans or are they vying for the big job IV Devolution a Moving central power from federal government down to the state government b Federal Financial Deficit is really hurting centralized federal government i Used to give and take money to state governments in order to coerce them into following their orders ii Now there s no money and therefore there s no power c 1970 6 million working for local and state government vs 2 4 million working for federal government d Today 16 million local and state government workers vs 2 million working for federal government i People are following the money e Is the shifting of power a good thing or a bad thing i 1954 first year people of different races went to school together V Civil Rights in Oklahoma a Sipuel case 1948 b First black law student was a female c Students cut down the ropes that sectioned her off and freely welcomed her d It was the first time this had happened in the country and it happened at OU