Obamacare, Kids and a Fiscal Cliff

Children's programming being thrown off the fiscal cliff

The Michigan Legislature is one of the several states that chose not to participate in expansion of the Medicaid program (a.k.a. Obamacare).   What this means for Michigan is that the state is about to miss out on crucial funding opportunities to help kids.

Of course, there are people who will immediately question the correlations between kids and Medicaid funding and the looming fiscal cliff but I will, with the greatest enjoyment, explain.

There is a battle looming over the entitlement programs of social welfare.  I strong-heartedly agree that these entitlement programs, complete with its policies, are archaic, riddled with fraud, waste and abuse, all running off incomplete data that is always, if states decide to report, at least two years behind.

In the age of informational technology there is one last variable that must be identified in the miserable operations of the child welfare programs and that is secrecy.  Child welfare programs operate under grants of immunity and shield of FOIA.  This means that there is no improvement unless it comes from the inside.

Here is an example of Michigan obviating internal policy damage control.  Michigan is about to expand the authority to remove a child from the home and terminate parental rights based on the definition of "unfit environment" and the prediction of an "unfit environment".

For those of you who recall my outspokenness on the equal parenting initiatives, you will understand that my position was on the determination of fitness.  According to current law, if a person is determined by the court to be unfit, then termination of parental rights proceedings are initiated.

What Michigan did was to embrace the "fitness" argument and dress it up as propaganda.  What I mean by propaganda is it hides it true intentions.  The parent or custodian is not questioned on personal "fitness" as a parent for it is the environment.  The environmental standard is built upon a morality platform where if it is found there are violations of law, including federal, or deprivation, where I interpret this to be a broad application of moral turpitude, the state can intervene and immediate commence termination of parental rights proceedings.

The Bill also proposes to give the predictive powers to determine future fitness to the Court.  It is even proposed that the state will have discretion to not provide reunification services.

So how is this all related to the fiscal cliff, state anti-obamacare legislation and kids?  Medical marijuana seems to be picking up steam on a national level.  Many people in poor neighborhoods find marijuana to be acceptable in recreational usage.  The moral majority in the state legislature does not like this.  Marijuana should be regulated for its medicinal purposes through pharmafarms.

A pharmafarm (a term I have created) is where the pharmaceutical industries come into the inner cities and farm the land with medical marijuana to clean the soil from the heavy metal toxins to prep for full agricultural usage.

Medical marijuana grown and sold by pharmaceutical industries is cost reimbursed under the Medicaid program, creates jobs and the corporations are taxable.  Think of it as an investment industry preparing for the big repeal of its prohibition.

Removing children from a parent, as Michigan operates under the "one parent" doctrine. based on the actions of one parent will allow the state to end its obligation of entitlement programs to the parent(s) and child as the child will now be fast tracked under federally funded adoption subsidies or uncapped placements in residential institutions.  For the older youth, there is the  Supportive Independent Living programs but those are woefully under funded and provide for no mental health assistance.

Since Michigan has made very little provision for the full implementation of obamacare, the only way kids can access medical services will be through state intervention.

This is Michigan's answer to poverty.

To make the historic story of foster care and adoption short and sweet, allow me to cost-effectively sum up the policy for the Industry of Human Trafficking: Poverty is abuse and neglect. Abuse and neglect is a crime. A parent(s) who is poor abuses and neglects the child. The state must protect the welfare of the child. The state never questions the work of God. Foster care and adoption residential institutions are in the name of God. People and corporations make tax write-off financial contributions to the institutions. Children get medicated; pharmaceutical companies get profit; social workers get jobs. The longer a child is in foster care; the more jobs are sustained. Sustaining and creating jobs saves money for the state. Foster parenting is a job. The state and the institutions are given financial incentives and receive financial rewards for each child transitioned into adoption. Michigan needs to make budget cuts. Michigan needs to create more jobs. Foster parenting is significantly more economical than an institution. Adoptive families receive financial rewards for each child adopted. The state no longer is financially responsible for the child. The state is no longer financially responsible for the birth parent. Everyone contributes to the economy. A stronger economy eradicates poverty. Poverty is a crime. When you stop poverty, you stop abuse and neglect.

LK: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/2008/10/human-trafficking-institutional-style.html#ixzz2Bx1xhNLs

According to the Bill, a person does not have to convicted of a crime, just found to have violated.  Can you imagine a child being removed from the home because a parent did not pay taxes?  This is the logic behind the entire child welfare policy.  If the state is going to pay for raising your child, then the state is going to have the ultimate final say on how and where the child is to be raised.  The goal is to raise a child to be productive and hopefully a tax-paying citizen.  

The other goal is to create jobs through new businesses investing in social impact opportunities.  This gets the state out of the business of taking care of kids and prevents another fiscal cliff from ever forming again.  

There will be no need for obamacare and the other entitlement programs are eliminated.


Michigan Senate Analysis On Bills To Expand Authority To Terminate Parental Rights
Even though this may be extremely intrusive policy, there has yet to be any other viable fiscal option presented.  It does not raise taxes and creates efficiency, but at what cost?

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