No More Privacy

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You)
Question #2
I think Etzioni shows aspects of privacy that we never really put a lot of thought into or things we have merely over looked. For instance, testing new born babies for HIV, it is something that should be routine in prenatal care that mothers do not want done, so when the baby is tested it is considered infringing on the mothers privacy. I think every new born baby, if the mother was not tested prior delivery, should be tested for HIV and if positive the mother should know and the baby should be treated. In the long run it is for the good of many more people then I think we see now. Also when Etzioni goes onto talk about biometrics I do not think we see how much good it can do for us, I believe we only see the negative side of it all. Biometrics could save our country, which is in a tremendous amount of debt, so much money, there are billions and billions of dollars every single year lost to criminals, who change names and get new aliases and essentially slip under the radar of the government. Biometrics should come into play in situations like this because people can change their names and use different social security numbers all they want but they will never be able to change their voice, hand design, or their eye patterns. This is how we can catch the criminals out there swindling billions of dollars from our nation. Privacy issues are a debate that I do not think will really ever end, I mean what is being too nosey and what is giving too much privacy? There will never be a fine line for us to see when our rights are being crossed. Etzioni goes into the slightest amount of detail about privacy rights but shows us so much.

" My Home"

It is amazing to see how much Immokalee has grown and changed in a little over a century. Indians moved there for the hunting and food, and for the high dry ground where they kept their cattle and farmed. But people began moving there during the wars, and they started raising cattle on top of Gopher Hill, cattle ranching was a huge part of what was and still is Immokalee, the climate alone on top of Gopher Hill due to the fact that it in the highest place on south west Florida, a mere 40 feet or so, it helped the ranchers and the cattle raising. Today the Seminole tribe of Indians is one of the largest cattle companies in the United States. When the Roberts came down to Immokalee at around the turn of the century there was barely a dozen families loving there. The rail road was brought to Immokalee in 1935 and it was a lot of what helped the economy, lumber became a major export .Immokalee is still the heart of agriculture in south west Florida. Immokalee has transformed from a place with tons of hardships to a place that is a haven for people who want acres and acres of wide open spaces.

I think Immokalee is an example of the old American dream, people working hard and starting new lives in new places. In ten years Immokalee will still be a large agriculture and cattle community I think. The population will have grown but not nearly as much as somewhere like Fort Myers will grow, the residents will still be the old Floridians who farm and live off of the agriculture. Cattle and farming will be what pushes Immokalee forward and keeps its economy going, also due to the Seminoles who still live there the casinos and gambling will be something that brings in money to Immokalee.

I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, between Immokalee and there it is such a huge difference. Fort Lauderdale is very populated and over developed. We do not live off what our land provides for us in Fort Lauderdale. There is not much open area for farms to even be built. South Florida alone is more populated and more developed then Immokalee is and more then I think Immokalee ever will be.