Posted on 02/16/2013 3:21:29 PM PST by Texas Fossil
My plant's safety manager was forced to pay child support for his 19 year old daughter who had already been in the Navy for a year and a half.......You can't argue with the ignorance that goes on in that court system.
I am sure there was some of that, skips in employment.
But after 25 years? Looks like someone would have told him about the death of the child. Suspect the mother did not want to reduce her income and the courts said, “he is out of state” so we will make it as difficult as possible.
I honestly have no knowledge of the details of this, but I am not surprised about “bureaucratic efficiency” in Detroit. /sarcasm
That is exactly what they are doing with Obozo’s unemployment figures. Getting lower by bogus calculations.
But, yes the deficits are growing rapidly and they see no problem.
Hospital bills, probably. Was he informed? It is obviousl he was not. That was 23 years ago.
Am I defending a flaky father, no. But rember the people who are in charge of collecting this have the mind of a collection agent. And they have no sympathy for the father, ever.
I never defended the father. But if you read the article even “the friend of the court” cannot understand why he still has a balance 23 years after the childs death (they had been garnishing his wages).
Also note the variance of the audit. Each time they were reduced and each time they were worlds appart.
Bureaucrap suck.... I do not appologize for that statement.
If I remember correctly she said something to the effect: the key or prerequisite to a totalitarian government is a large and unencumbered bureaucracy.
I don’t know if its still a problem but here in Jackson, they used to have a problem of guys losing their jobs because of court ordered community service. You had to do the service when they said so and they didn’t concern themselves with your job.
They had guys getting all tied up in that mess and they simply couldn’t get ahead but it was free labor for the county.
No doubt we have that when the rule of law is destroyed.
The Federal Government is very large, unaccountable if not tied to constitutional restraint.
There are serious consequences of allowing this.
The solution? DownSize DC! Eliminate entire Rogue, unaccountable, unconstitutional departments.
We can begin with the US Dept. of Education, including it’s SWAT teams. Then the EPA. Then we are just getting warmed up.
Can that happen? Not sure.
I will have to dig her book out of my library and see what I have forgotten that it contained. I might gain a better perspective by re-reading it after a 25 year lapse since I read it.
A common story in the divorce/cohabitation regime for at least three decades or more. Have fun. Enjoy the feminist/romanticist slide.
These child support agencies can “attribute” all sorts of earnigns to a guy who does not show up. The mother can say well he worked construction once upon a time and earned $30/hour so gross income is based on that. The support is set. The guy is unaware he can ask for a “review” of support amount due to his un or underemployment. Agencies fight lowering due to their 2% processing charge on every dime that goes through them.
They also can make Dad pay birth expenses if Mom was on benefits. In this case, probably make him pay the funeral bill.
Filing bankruptsy may not relieve him of this obligation.
“But after 25 years? Looks like someone would have told him about the death of the child. Suspect the mother did not want to reduce her income and the courts said, “he is out of state” so we will make it as difficult as possible.”
In most cases the child support isn’t going to the mother, but rather to the state because the mother is on welfare/ADC.
The state has no reason to agree to shut off the cash flow when the child is 18, or dead as in this case.
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Well, it can happen but I see that only after we go full bore hyperinflation until money has no meaning because we are so broke. The school of hard knocks seems to be the only way people as a whole learn or wake up from their trance when the culture has descended down into complete depravity.
Thanks for the explanation.
Learn? We have a steep learn curve.
“Essays on Political Economy”
By the late M. Frederic Bastiat(1874)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
-That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen-
“This explains the fatally grievous condition of mankind.
Ignorance surrounds its cradle: then its actions are determined by their first consequences, the only ones which, in its first stage, it can see.
It is only in the long run that it learns to take account of the others.
It has to learn this lesson from two very different masters—experience and foresight.
Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves.
For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one.
I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.”
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