Joni Ernst: The Coronation of the New Face of Privatization

It is only proper when a reigning queen abdicates, to regally hail the new queen.

This coronation is to recognize the next phase for control of social and economic national policies for corporations, or what I prefer to call it "selling chattel."

History is cyclical; I just really enjoy watching this one unfold.

Her Royal Majesty, Phyllis Schlafly

In the beginning there was Phyillis Schlafly, the queen mother of the Family Rights Movement.

She was the one person who stood up, with open arms, and took in the politically exiled, the socially and economically awkward, the fathers whose wives had filed for divorce, took full custody of the kids and were entirely decimated in character and financial substance with child support.

She was the one who wiped the tears of the middle class mothers who were losing their children to poverty and the States through Child Protective Services.

Phyllis Schlafly brought all the little groups together, from across the nation, to D.C. and told them, "Go forth my children, make new friends and bring them to the Tea Party!"

I witnessed the event.

When all her children came back together with millions of new friends just like them, she was so elated that she quickly sat her children down and began to tell them about the magical story called "Religious Freedom" and how they could get back everything they had lost, including parental rights as a religious belief.

The Madame Maura Corrigan

From there it was launched the Parental Rights movement, the genus of the Tea Party, Michigan Supreme Court Justice The Madame Maura Corrigan.

The Madame Corrigan (always said with clinched teeth in an haughty British breath), only held the golden scepter during her reign when she was Blue Slipped and launched the national movement of judicial lobbying, was eventually relegated to designing obfuscatory administrative policy structures to, in a nutshell, create constitutional constraints to control "the poors" and their God-awful "underground economies".

Underground Economy

Parental Rights was a brilliant policy strategy whose origins are in Michigan and I was right there at the table.  Basically, these newly and strategically selected leaders went back to their respective states and started a national structure to amend the U.S. Constitution to include parental rights as a religious belief whereby limiting the role of furthering a governmental interest by giving a newly personified corporation the ability to think and believe.

The Madame was one of the behind-the-scenes architecture of Michigan's Emergency Manager Law and the new frontline general in making sure the polices behind it stood up to public scrutiny after stepping down from the State Supreme Court to become Director of the Department of Human Services and lead advocate in defense of the federal consent agreement.

Her skills led her to back to national policymaking for more socio-economic policy experiments with the American Enterprise Institute.

Then came the next installation of conservative matriarchs, the one and only Michele Bachmann,

Queen of Child Welfare Fraud. to become the beautiful face to grace the Religious Freedom movement.

Her entire reign involved the promulgation of child welfare reform in the promotion of the platform of letting churches give it the ol' heave hoe!

Her role in history was to promote "the best interests of the child".

Foster care is the way to the end of poverty which is considered abuse and neglect as a result of moral turpitude.
The Parental Rights Amendment was about to toll as there were not enough states on board for ratification, but the roadmap was in place for the next ratification of the U.S. Constitution and it was the Religious Freedom Restoration Act legislation, and the States were cranking it out.

The next policy initiative was privatization:  the moneymaker.  By deregulating corporations through the belief that it is an animated, albeit artificial,  individual person, capable of religious beliefs, 

At this juncture, it is now written in stone that God cannot be audited, and in this manner, God has now been designed into a fully operational non-profit corporation while taking over the government trust, fiscally and socially, through privatization.

NOW COMES, Her royal majesty,  U.S. Representative Joni Ernst, Queen of Privatization.

Ernst carries concealed weapon “90 percent of the time” (AUDIO)

Privatization Queen Joni Ernst
of the U.S. House of Representatives

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst says she is “passionate” about gun rights — and she carries a gun nearly every day.

“I carry probably 90 percent of the time,” Ernst told reporters this morning.

Ernst refers to her concealed weapon as her “black purse.”

“It’s something I am with,” Ernst said. “I’ve grown up with weapons. I serve in the military. I’m comfortable with that, but it is a sense of security, too.”

Ernst, a battalion commander in the Iowa National Guard, spoke this morning at the Des Moines Conservative Breakfast Club and gun rights were one of the topics she raised during her remarks.

“The Second Amendment is not just words on a piece of paper,” Ernst said. “We have the right to keep and bear arms, period and it is something that I am willing to defend when I go to Washington, D.C.”

AUDIO of Ernst’s speech and Q&A with audience, 29:40

During a question and answer period with the audience, Ernst said “pretty severe cuts” are needed in the federal budget.

“I don’t believe in an education department at the federal level. I think that is something that we could eliminate and that would save,” Ernst said. “We have to take a good, hard look at entitlement programs.”

Ernst did not mention the entitlements of Social Security and Medicare, however. Instead, she questioned the growing budget for food stamps.

“We have lost a reliance on not only our own families, but so much of what our churches and private organizations used to do. They used to have wonderful food pantries. They used to provide clothing for those that really needed it, but we have gotten away from that,” Ernst said. “Now we’re at a point where the government will just give away anything. We have to stop that.”

Ernst served as Montgomery County Auditor for six years. She’s been a state senator for three years and now faces a June 2014 GOP primary battle for the U.S. Senate nomination. At least six Republican men have said they are running or may seek the nomination.

Democrat Tom Harkin announced he would not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2014. Congressman Bruce Braley of Waterloo has been the only candidate to emerge as the Democratic Party’s likely U.S. Senate nominee.

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Justice Department Finds No Political Targeting at IRS

Washington, D.C. (Oct. 23, 2015)—Today, Rep. John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statements regarding the Department of Justice’s letter finding no evidence that the IRS targeted conservative groups for political reasons.

 

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conuyers, Jr.

Ranking Member Conyers stated:

“The Department’s findings confirm what we have known since the self-proclaimed ‘conservative Republican’ manager in Cincinnati explained more than two years ago that the IRS did not target conservative groups for political reasons and took no direction from the White House.  This is also consistent with the conclusions of two Inspector General reports and multi-year House and Senate Congressional investigations, including a recent bipartisan report from the Senate Finance Committee.  It is time Republicans end this partisan witch-hunt and focus on matters that impact the lives of the American people.”

Ranking Member Cummings stated:

"Today, the Justice Department confirmed the same conclusions we had years ago.  Over the past five years, Republicans in the House of Representatives have squandered literally tens of millions of dollars going down all kinds of investigative rabbit holes – IRS, Planned Parenthood, Benghazi – with absolutely no evidence of illegal activity.  I believe the American people have higher expectations for their elected officials, and they want Congress to start doing its job and focusing on issues that matter instead of these ridiculous, partisan, taxpayer-funded attacks."

The IRS reported on June 3, 2015, that it has spent nearly $20 million responding to requests relating to this investigation:

“More than 250 IRS employees have spent more than 160,000 hours working directly on complying with congressional investigations, at a cost of approximately $20 million.”  

As of March 25, 2015, the IRS had produced more than 1.3 million pages of documents in response to Congressional requests.  The Oversight and Government Reform Committee alone has conducted 54 witness interviews, and the Inspector General has conducted multiple inquiries, the most recent of which included interviewing 118 witnesses and reviewing more than 20 terabytes of data. 

According to today's letter from the Department of Justice:

In collaboration with the FBI and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the Department's Criminal and Civil Rights Divisions conducted an exhaustive probe.  We conducted more than 100 witness interviews, collected more than one million pages of IRS documents, analyzed almost 500 tax-exemption applications, examined the role and potential culpability of scores of IRS employees, and considered the applicability of civil rights, tax administration, and obstruction statutes.  Our investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia, leading to the belief by many tax exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints.  But poor management is not a crime.  We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution.  We also found no evidence that any official involved in the handling of tax-exempt applications or IRS leadership attempted to obstruct justice.  Based on the evidence developed in this investigation and the recommendation of experienced career prosecutors and supervising attorneys at the Department, we are closing our investigation and will not seek any criminal charges."

In June 2013, a self-proclaimed “conservative Republican” Screening Group Manager who worked at the IRS for 21 years as a civil servant and supervised a team of Screening Agents in the Cincinnati field office denied that he or anyone on his team was directed by the White House to target conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, or that their actions in screening tax-exempt applicants were politically motivated:

Q:        Do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the White House was involved in the decision to screen Tea Party cases?

A:         I have no reason to believe that.

Q:        Do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the White House was involved in the decision to centralize the review of Tea Party cases?

A:         I have no reason to believe that.

He further stated:

Q:        In your opinion, was the decision to screen and centralize the review of Tea Party cases the targeting of the President’s political enemies?

A:        I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development.

DOJ Letter on IRS Investigative Findings of Targeting Conservative Political Groups

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When Politics Becomes Child Abuse

When logic no longer exists in a political debate, launch an ad hominen attack.

When that fails, attack a child.

This is what extreme conservatives are doing on the internet.

Tea Partiers Unleash Torrent Of Racist Hatred At Malia Obama Over T-Shirt

Attacking a child, particularly on the internet, is child abuse.

These attacks are fully disclosed with a poster's name and insidious remarks which are preserved in the annals of history, in the Library of Congress.

This is child abuse and should be reported immediately.

Now, is the time for the anti-child abuse organizations to launch an educational campaign to report such activity.

Now is the time for the #DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) to address the need to protect children from this onslaught of economic, educational and cyberattacks.


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CPS allows hundreds of children to be abused

Someone needs to report these people to CPS!

Where are all the Child Protective Service people?

 Save the children...or is it just American children?

 
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Danville summer school teaches Tea Party values to kids

Danville summer school teaches Tea Party values to kids

Liberty school teaches kids Tea Party-style values: During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history. The school is sponsored by Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project.

DANVILLE, Ky. — Eighteen children filed into a small Danville church one evening last week to learn about the principles of American liberty — including lessons on the failures of communism, the Constitution's biblical roots and gold's superiority to government currency.

During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history, including stories about how colonists' prayers once helped turn back a threatening French fleet and the principle of equal opportunity, but not necessarily equal results.

It marked the latest of a growing number of Vacation Liberty Schools, volunteer-run programs for children mostly aged 10-15 that resemble a mix between vacation Bible school, U.S. history and tea party-style conservative ideas that supporters say aren't taught in public schools.

They're run by members of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, a group that holds to a series of nine principles, including “America is good,” God is “the center of my life” and “My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government,” which “cannot force me to be charitable.”

“What we need to do is get this country back on track,” said Penny Lister, of Perryville, who brought her 9-year-old son, Jacob McCowan, to the Danville session to “learn about responsibility.”

The first Liberty school was held in Georgetown, Ky., in 2010 by 9/12 members including Lisa Abler, who fashioned a curriculum and made it available for free online on the Vacation Liberty School website.

Since then, the summer schools have been held in Owensboro, Versailles and Danville. An estimated 1,000 children have attended 40 similar schools across the country this year in states including Florida and Michigan, most using a curriculum developed in Kentucky, according to Eric Wilson, head of the Kentucky 9/12 project.

The lessons on founding-father history and virtues, peppered with patriotism and faith, have proved a draw for 9/12 members, tea party followers and other conservatives, said Wilson, whose 9/12 groups has about 3,000 members in 13 chapters that meet monthly.

“There's a growing liberty movement in the past couple of years,” said Eric Wilson, head of the Kentucky 9/12 Project, who said demand for the schools is rooted in a desire to teach the “self-governing leadership and personal responsibility” that “this country was founded on.”

The schools, held for about three hours a day, are mostly free, though some charge nominal fees, funded primarily by volunteers and participants and held in churches. They have garnered media attention in several states, and some criticism.

'Very troubling'
Joseph Conn, a spokesman for Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the teachings are “clearly biased toward a particular religious and political viewpoint” and part of a larger movement to teach “a Christian version of American history,” which he said tends to “take history and rewrite it. We see it as very troubling.”

But 9/12 members contend the material is “fact-based” and uses original documents, including the written words of the founding fathers. And Wilson contends they steer clear of politics, and are not a form of political indoctrination. “People say it's politically driven — it's not,” Abler said. “I look at it as revealing the truth.”

Abler said her curriculum is based on the 1981 book “The 5,000 Year Leap,” by the late anti-communist author W. Cleon Skousen, who advocated private property, minimal government regulation and the belief that that the U.S. Constitution is rooted in the Bible. Copies of the book sat on a table at the Danville camp.

Skousen's work has been criticized by scholars and groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has called it a “recipe for turning the United States into 50 little theocracies.”

Abler said the curriculum has gained a strong following, especially after Beck highlighted the effort last year on his TV show — saying the schools gave him “great hope” because children weren't hearing enough about faith, the Constitution and founding fathers.

Beck, who has been criticized by some for promoting conspiracy theories, had his Fox News show canceled earlier this year.

“I'm hoping it'll whet their appetite to learn more,” said Anne Nagy, a Danville-area conservative and 9/12 member who decided to hold the Danville school after feeling “disheartened about the direction of our country” on issue such as health care reform and gun control.

On the first night of the Danville school held at Faith Church, children began by escaping a tyrannical Old World Europe, where the king's representative stood in a candle-lit room. He provided only water and bread and made them repeatedly sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”

Then they snaked through a “path to liberty” to arrive in another room representing New World America, filled with such games as Twister and checkers, soda, confetti, patriotic music and colonially dressed adults.

But they had to clean up afterward — learning that with freedom comes responsibility.

Individualism rewarded

Later they played a game where they blew bubbles from a single container, earning candy for popping each other's bubbles with squirt guns. Then they tried making and shooting their own bubbles, learning that individual efforts, rather than collectivism or socialism, was a better way to earn candy that represented gold nuggets.

They were asked which was better.

“Having your own bubbles,” Jacob said.

They could use their nuggets in a general store to buy snacks, toys and gifts. Later in the week, a man playing a central banker offered to buy the gold for government paper money, whose value, the children would learn, would decline in relation to gold.

“The gold standard — that's how the country started,” said Jim Fishback, a retiree who was volunteering to play the central banker.

Volunteer Seth Slone, a local resident dressed as a founding father, gave the children a lecture about how collectivism and communism in the New World led to starvation until settlers found that the use of individual property worked better.

“Let's apply communism to schools,” he told the children, arguing that no one would study if good grades were given to everyone, regardless of how hard they worked.


The weeklong curriculum includes themes of hope, charity and sustaining liberty in the Revolutionary War and founders such as George Washington and Ben Franklin.

According to the curriculum, it also includes such lessons as “understanding false extensions of separation of church and state,” “faith's role in the Revolutionary War,” “avoiding the enslavement of debt” and how charity should not be forced through the government or “enable dependency.”

Emily Knetsche, 12, said she enjoyed learning about the economy and lessons on “relying on yourself.” Her mother, Lisa Knetsche, said she heard about the school from friends.

“The values are in line with what we teach in our household,” she said. “We want our kids to understand that we need to defend the Constitution … to get back to our roots.”

Carolyn Underwood, a home-schooling mother from Danville, brought her children Mattie, 11, and Michael, 10, to the school, saying she appreciates what was being taught partly because it fits into the American history she's teaching at home.

Robin Rodgers, who brought her daughter, 11-year-old Faith, said she enrolled because “it's something important the kids aren't learning school.”

Conyers: Limited Government Party Turns Out to Be a Party of the Unlimited

What is the term I am looking for here.....hmmm..... can you say Legally Kidnapped?

Conyers:  Limited Government Party Turns Out to Be a Party of the Unlimited

New Bill Authorizes Prolonged and Indefinite Detention With No Respect for the Rule of Law

(Washington) – Today, at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on H.R. 1932, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) criticized the bill as a massive, unconstitutional expansion of the government’s ability to detain immigrants for many years—even indefinitely—with little or no procedural protections at all.

“It is ironic that this bill comes from the Judiciary Committee leadership that should be protecting the Constitution and from the party that prides itself on limited government and the protection of individual liberty,” Conyers said.  “The Republican Party’s Pledge to America was all about ensuring limited government and fiscal responsibility.  Tea Party Patriots lists ‘Constitutionally Limited Government’ as a core value.  And TeaParty.Org says its ‘non-negotiable core beliefs’ include: ‘Intrusive Government Stopped’ and ‘Government Must Be Downsized.’

“Under this bill, thousands of immigration detainees would become subject to mandatory detention—with no opportunity for a bond hearing—even if they pose no risk to the public and no risk of flight. 

“Ten years after the Supreme Court cautioned that the Constitution would permit extended detention of immigration detainees only in very narrow circumstances accompanied by strong procedural protections, H.R. 1932 allows immigration detainees to be held indefinitely simply by the stroke of the pen of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The writ of habeas corpus is a fundamental guarantee of the Constitution.  If H.R. 1932 becomes law, all habeas corpus petitions challenging the legality of mandatory, prolonged, and indefinite immigration detention would have to be filed in the District Court of the District of Columbia.  The only possible explanation for doing that would be to make it harder for a person who may not speak English, almost always has no lawyer, and is being detained in Arizona or Texas to get into court.

“We need to make sure that our detention and removal system works, so that we are holding the right people, under the right conditions, and for the right reasons.  And that we remove people from this country when they have gone through the process and received a final decision in their case.  But this bill will not advance any of those goals.  Instead, it will just increase our already enormous and expensive detention system and will remove or limit the few meaningful checks that still exist.”

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Policy Pimps and Welfare Queens

Here we have an elaborate scheme where University of Louisville is caught up in the middle laundrying Medicaid money in order for the state to maximize its revenues by claiming more Medicaid funds.

The levels of fraud, waste and abuse in social welfare programs do not really take place with its recipients and if so, it is minimal.  Here is an example.

Many years ago, President Reagan made use of a term that has become synonymous with individuals on public assistance.  That term is the "Welfare Queen".

The Welfare Queen was promoted as the representative icon of all welfare persons.  She was the one who would wear mink coat, driving a Cadillac, while buying groceries with food stamps with 8 kids at home.

The nation has since adopted this distorted perception of welfare recipients as having children for money and being lazy.

It was the Heritage Foundation that created the image of the Welfare Queen.  The story was based upon the fraudulent activities of one woman who fraudulently claimed around $80,000.00 in welfare.

I consider the Welfare Queen to be one of the greatest propaganda tactics of all times.  Here you have an immediate, instant, on the spot available heuristic there to whip out every time there are stories such as the ones in the video, below.

A welfare queen is a pejorative phrase used in the United States to describe people who are accused of collecting excessive welfare payments through fraud or manipulation. Sensational reporting on welfare fraud began during the early-1960s, appearing in general interest magazines such as Readers Digest. The term entered the American lexiconduring Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's South Side.^[1]Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations.

David Brennan, AstraZenneca Policy Pimp

A policy pimp is a phrase of parody used in the United States to describe a corporation or state, federally prosecuted of "illegally and wrongfully" filing false claims for reimbursement of welfare payments through Social Security programs of Medicare, Medicaid or TRICARE.  Censored reporting on corporate welfare fraud began during the early 1960's, manifesting in the promotion of a national healthcare system, what is known today as medical insurance.  Pharmaceutical corporations funded the design of university curriculum of social work and psychiatry, federal and state healthcare policies, and lobbyied as special interest groups to promote social programs which generated more customers who were mandated to take psychotic medications, allowed for clinical testing on foster children, all reimbursed through federal medical welfare programs.  Since then, the appellation of policy pimps has become a national sensation, exposing the harmful nature of drugs such as Seroquel, Celexa, Geodon, Lexapro and Zyprexa.  


Now, every time there is a major story of a pharmaceutical company or state being prosecuted for billions in welfare fraud, the story gets swept under the rug and reworked to blame the Welfare Queen by their corporately billionaire-funded minions, the Tea Party and their bought and paid for propaganda merchants.  Tea Party campaigns are funded to stop socialism, their new name for welfare.  Tea Party campaigns are also funded to distract the public from the true Welfare Kings.


Meet some Policy Pimps

HHS Announces New Competitive “Early Innovator” Grants for States that Lead the Race to Develop IT Systems for State Exchanges

While you have masses of Tea Party hoopla and 20 States Attorney Generals moaning and groaning over healthcare reform, it is being done right under their noses.

That 'mandatory' insurance is nothing but a pretty shiny bobble to distract those who are economically unsophisticated.


Brilliant administrating.  Brilliant tool to end Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

HHS Announces New Competitive “Early Innovator” Grants for States that Lead the Race to Develop IT Systems for State Exchanges

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced competitive funding opportunities for States to design and implement the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure needed to operate Health Insurance Exchanges.  The Exchanges represent new competitive insurance marketplaces that will help Americans and small businesses purchase affordable private health insurance starting in 2014 and a strong IT infrastructure will be critical to their success.  For the first time, funding will be directed to States that are willing and able to lead the race to develop IT systems.  These systems can then be used as models by all States in their efforts to establish Exchanges.

Starting in 2014, Exchanges will help individuals and small employers shop for, select, and enroll in high-quality, affordable private health plans that fit their individual needs at competitive prices.  By providing a place for one-stop shopping, Exchanges will make purchasing health insurance easier and more understandable.  Similar to any consumer-based industry such as the airline or banking industries, sophisticated, consumer-friendly IT infrastructure will be critical to the success of the Exchanges.  Although Exchanges are not scheduled to launch until 2014, work is already underway to design and implement them across the country.  As States prepare, they have requested early funding assistance to develop the right IT, particularly with respect to eligibility and enrollment systems. 

The new competitive “Early Innovators” grants being announced today will reward States that demonstrate leadership in developing cutting-edge and cost effective consumer-based technologies and models for insurance eligibility and enrollment for Exchanges.  This will help to create a simpler, consumer-oriented system for individuals, families and businesses to sign up for the health insurance plan that they choose.  Additionally, all States, including recipients of this award, will be eligible to apply for a future funding opportunity that will support ongoing Exchange implementation.  We expect this funding opportunity to be announced in February 2011.

“States are focused on implementing the Health Insurance Exchanges because they know the Exchanges will empower their citizens by forcing health insurers to compete,” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.  “Consumer-friendly information technology is the backbone of that effort which is why we are creating an incentive for States that are willing and able to lead the way to do so.”

Two-year grants will be awarded by February 15, 2011, to up to five States or coalitions of States that have ambitious yet achievable proposals that can yield IT models and best practices that will benefit all States.  These States will lead the way in developing consumer-friendly, cost-effective IT systems that can be used and adopted by other States and help all States and the Federal government save money as they work to develop these new competitive market places. Funding, which will vary based on States’ proposals, will provide necessary resources to develop and establish the most innovative systems possible that meet consumer and employer needs in a cost effective manner.

“States are developing cutting-edge innovative systems to deliver cost-effective and consumer friendly care to families and small businesses,” said Joel Ario, Director of OCIIO’s Office of Health Insurance Exchanges.  “By encouraging and rewarding states for their innovation, we can build and leverage models that can be adopted and tailored by other States and generate taxpayer savings across the board.” 

To find the FOA, go to www.grants.gov and search for CFDA 93.525. 

Intergenerational Ignorance

There comes a time when I reach my breaking point listening to political individuals who lack economic sophistication in understanding the need to master all facets of the argument with empirical fact and logical necessity.

Meet Rand Paul:

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To start, Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse prevails due to the continued moritoria on the rules.

Regulation of Medicaid falls upon the States for which the Medicaid Fraud Control Units were created.  These Units do absolutely nothing in ending Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

'Intergenerational welfare' is a code word for child poverty.  For the most part, private insurance companies do not cover for basic needs of physical conditions such as Autism, congenital birth defects or mental illness.  This leaves families who have exhausted their financial resources and at the 200% threshold and below of the federal poverty level no other recourse but to access Medicaid programs.

Failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child, even medical needs, is considered abuse and neglect. These policies perpetuate 'intergenerational welfare'.

The majority of child welfare programming has been privatized by the States.  Regulation of a state program is a state issue. Since there is a dearth of regulation of the child welfare/pediatric Medicaid programs (i.e.Targeted Case Management, SCHIPS) and scant opportunities for contractual debarment of these privatized agencies, fraud flourishes. Foster care is the most notorious for kiddy kickbacks, phantom programs, double-billing, fictitious billing, fraudulent reports ... oh, just peruse the National Archive On Child Welfare Fraud.

In the light of 'intergenerational welfare', youth who age out of foster care face a dismal future, forced reliance upon institutional welfare.  These former foster youth will have children and the cycle will continue with their children being placed in foster care on the basis of being poor.

This nation has a strong tradition of military history in families. TRICARE is the 'Medicaid' for military, serving Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide.  Is Rand Paul implicating that TRICARE is 'intergenerational welfare', also?  Does he wish to privatize TRICARE and make service members establish medical savings accounts?????

Rand Paul, along with his political colleagues, must cease his tactics of defaming the characters of the poor.  Just as the original participants of the Boston Tea Party disguised their tactics by blaming Native Americans, the current members of the National Tea Party need to immediately stop assigning blame of the Medicaid program to, no matter how subtle, historically and economically disparaged members of society.

Medicaid funds segments of the nation's public educational system.  Is Rand Paul advocating the demise of civic learning?  From his rhetoric as of late, it surely sounds as much.

The only major national issue Rand Paul has raised is the pervasive problems with 'intergenerational ignorance' of policymakers, such as himself and his colleagues.

Rand Paul says Medicaid has created 'intergenerational welfare'

The result is 'intergenerational welfare,' he contends

By Jack Brammer - jbrammer@herald-leader.com

FRANKFORT — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul said Medicaid's lenient eligibility standards have led to "intergenerational welfare" in a discussion Monday with three members of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

Paul later campaigned in Lexington with his GOP opponent in the spring, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, and asked why his Democratic rival, Jack Conway, does not enjoy strong backing from his primary election conquest, Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo.

Conway's campaign responded by saying Mongiardo will appear with Conway Saturday night at a Democratic dinner in Louisville.

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During Monday's rally at Fayette County Republican Party headquarters in Lexington, U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, right, appeared with Secretary of State Trey Grayson, left, whom he defeated in the May GOP primary, and Urban County Council member Ed Lane.

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  News briefs from around Kentucky at 4:58 a.m. EDT

With less than a month to go in the U.S. Senate race before the Nov. 2 general election, Paul was interviewed on five issues by three chamber leaders.

On major changes in government, Paul said the country needs a balanced budget amendment and must better control spending on federal entitlement programs.

He focused on the high costs of Medicaid, a federal-state health-insurance program that covers about 800,000 poor and disabled Kentuckians and costs nearly $6 billion.

"When we have a government program to help those who are in need or who have unfortunate problems, let's help those truly in need," Paul said.

He contended that lenient eligibility standards have led to "intergenerational welfare."

Conway's campaign press secretary, John Collins, said Paul's comments were "troubling and show how far out of touch he is with life in Kentucky."

Sheila Schuster, who works with organizations that advocate for disabled Kentuckians, said the state does not have the most liberal eligibility standards for Medicaid and disputed that it has become a welfare system.

"It's a system of taking care of people with serious needs," she said, noting that she is not endorsing any candidate in the Senate race.

Schuster acknowledged there might be some people receiving Medicaid who shouldn't, but she does not think it's a large number.

"Any system will have some degree of fraud, but I recall how the administration of former Gov. Ernie Fletcher said it would get rid of waste, fraud and abuse and didn't turn up many who shouldn't be on the Medicaid rolls," she said.

During a segment dealing with education, Paul said Kentucky lost out on federal funding from the Race to the Top program this summer in part because its application did not include charter schools, which operate outside many of the rules of regular schools.

Kentucky had hoped to receive $175 million from the program designed by President Barack Obama's administration to reward innovative efforts to improve schools.

Paul said he favors charter schools and school choice, including vouchers to allow families to select the public or private schools of their choice and have all or part of the tuition paid.

He also said busing of students to schools two to three hours from home has not worked.

The candidate, a Bowling Green eye surgeon who is making his first bid for public office, stopped short of calling for elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, which he has done previously.

Concerning federal government spending, Paul said every agency should be scrutinized. He specifically criticized the U.S. Department of Commerce's use of jets to fly corporate officials "around the world looking for jobs," and said there is waste in military spending.

Paul has previously said the Department of Commerce should be eliminated.

On energy and the environment, Paul criticized "an out-of-control bureaucracy" of regulations, saying the nation's air is 30 percent cleaner than it was 30 years ago.

He emphasized the role of coal and said nuclear energy should be part of the country's energy strategy.

On health, Paul said the entire federal health care reform act backed by Obama should be repealed but acknowledged that would be difficult with the president's veto power.

He said the legislation might have to be changed piecemeal.

The law will increase insurance premiums and be burdensome to businesses, Paul said.

He said the legislation should have allowed more competition among insurance companies "to drive prices down" and should have encouraged more health savings accounts.

He also said he favors tax credits for employer-sponsored wellness programs.

The interview with Paul will be posted on the chamber's Web site later this week. Chamber president Dave Adkisson said Conway has been invited to participate in a similar discussion but has not accepted yet.

Conway spokeswoman Allison Haley said Conway intends to participate in the chamber's roundtable.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Paul, but the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will not be endorsing a candidate, Adkisson said.

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