Yes, Bill Johnson has slithered into another secret division of DHS. Johnson has abdicated to his trusty side-kick, Bruce Hoffman, who has taken over the throne of omnipotence.
I am guessing, as I really do not feel like finding out where he went at this particular moment, that he is doing something with child welfare contracts.Now, how did I come to this conclusion?
Well, the Madame Maura Corrigan has stepped down as DHS Director after successfully running a game on the federal court monitor that "all is well" in Michigan child welfare.
All is not well, not even close because it seems the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
has picked Michigan, under the Madame's leadership, to launch a pilot
model for privatizing the entire system of child welfare, or more
specifically, foster care. The pilot city is Grand Rapids and it has a
long, nasty, sordid history of snatching kids via bible thumping.
When I say "bible-thumping" I specifically mean the
Michigan Legislature just seriously attempted to slam a Bill down the throats of the people under the guise of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). This Bill, mirrored from its namesake federal Act, was originally used as the backbone for the Michigan Parental Rights Resolution which was introduced for an Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I worked on the construction of the Bill.
The RFRA federal case was centered on a Child Protective Service case of parents using certain plants with hallucinogenic properties in their traditional, indigenous religious ceremonies. Parenting was transmogrified into a religious belief overnight.
The Tea Party began to take roots as a family economic movement and I was there to witness. It was built off the desperation of parents who had their children legally kidnapped. These families became powerful catalysts for the extreme right wing to, predatorially, push through their
RFRA will take the same course as the Parental Rights Amendment, mark my word. Also mark my words when I say that it just might steam roll the national level and become an Amendment as there are a series of states which have already signed on.
RFRA is not alone in its ride to becoming an Amendment. The Hobby Lobby decision opened the flood gates for legal challenges to "religious freedom" as corporations, legal persons, now have recognized religious beliefs.
Michigan has introduced, sine die, major changes to its Non-Profit Corporation Law. From a quick overview, I see it is now easier for a not-for-profit to set up and transfer to a for-profit.
This got me thinking that timing of the shift in Michigan child welfare leadership is not a coincidence.
Michigan spends $1B on charter schools but fails to hold them accountable
Medicaid Expansion + RFRA + Non-Profit Corporation changes +Privatization = Corporate $$$
Charter schools do not provide special needs education but child welfare does and the money comes from Medicaid. The federal A+PLUS Act would give direct access to CPS in viewing school records, with no oversight, to generate more child welfare cases by providing special needs services.
Every corporation is about to hire a child and no one will stop this from being a nationally diffusable model.
Children under the auspices of the state (ie. foster care, residential institutions, juvenile justice, court child welfare cases) are not calculated in the national child poverty numbers.
This is God's economic model to reduce child poverty.
#Time2AuditGod
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