Posted by sunny10 on December 5, 2004, at 15:02:46
In reply to What a great, great post!!! Thanks so much.. » Toph, posted by 64bowtie on December 4, 2004, at 14:34:26
CPS is like any other agency in the country. Overworked and underfunded.
That is the problem.
If we could have people donate money to CPS instead of underprivileged children in OTHER countries, we might get somewhere. Why do they not publicize for fund drives like all the ads for starving Ethiopian (or wherever) children?
We are all about "all show, no substance", in America anyway. We tell the rest of the world to be like us, democracy, democracy, democracy, when in truth we are all capitalism. The big conglomerate CEO's are running this country.
Wouldn't it be great if the federal government ran a one year only HIGHER tax on the coglomerates just to fund this extremely important agency?
I was just hiking the higher trails at Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia today. During my cooldown period, I walk back on the main trail. I got to reading the historic posts spread throughout the trail. One of the posts was about the WPA, an association to have unemployed, or underemployed, individuals working for pay and/or assistance (food and shelter) during the Great Depression. What a concept, eh?, people were given government assistance IF THEY WORKED on government projects. And now it has degraded to welfare... paying people to do nothing. People who are competent to work.
And that money disappears from the coffers which were designed to help agencies like CPS, adult services, and all of the other "incompetents"- people who cannot otherwise help themselves.
So who makes the government fix their mistakes? Any ideas?
Sorry for my ramblings to get to this, but I thought it was, overall, important to make my point...
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