Please sir, may I have some more? (of the money that is lawfully mine anyway)

[TalkingDog]

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NRSTAFF/71106034/-1/NEWS30

I was sorely tempted to break the 4 Ppg. rule and chastisement be-damned because this is so outrageous and convoluted.

We our military budget outstrips every country in the world and several countries combined, yet orphan children are having liens put against their property and Social Security income because the agencies that are in charge of their care have to pocket the money in order to survive.

We spend huge amounts of money to kill people in other countries, to kill our own citizens who got dragged into this misguided criminal enterprise while offering tax breaks and loopholes to the "fortunate sons".

Again, I ask you...why aren't the Republicans just sending these kids directly to the poorhouse? They could dismantle public welfare, take those funds and put it toward blowing up yet another country.

The Greensboro orphan known as "John G.," who sued the DSS to keep the house left him in his father's will, has won a court case being watched by child advocates nationwide.

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The agency wanted to pocket the monthly $571 Social Security benefit John's father left him and not use part of the boy's money to pay the $221 monthly mortgage on a small Habitat for Humanity house the parent left John, now 17.

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On the opposing side, so did the N.C. Association of County Commissioners, fearing that a victory for John G. would represent a costly defeat for budget-strapped counties, which pick up as much as 50 percent of the foster care tab. In North Carolina, that's more than 10,000 children; nationally, it's a half-million.

"They are budget-starved. But the answer is not to steal from children," said public interest lawyer Lewis Pitts, an attorney for John G. "The answer is to come forward and make the public aware that there's a crisis in child welfare spending."

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[Beerboy]

1. Orphan children are property owners?

Who knew? They should pay for what they've done!:grr:

[mainegreen]

2. Ahhh, bureaucrats. Or Vogons if you will.