Posted on 03/04/2013 1:32:32 PM PST by grundle
If you want to know why the U.S. Government is going broke look no further.
A four-month investigation of the $340 million taxpayer-funded "Wisconsin Shares" program of childcare welfare found that the program is riddled with abuses and loopholes.
In one case, the investigation carried out by the news media found that four sisters with 17 children between them racked in $540,000 in taxpayer dollars since 2006, just by staying home and babysitting each other’s children. The most impressive of this all is that it is perfectly legal.
"It's a loophole," said Laurice Lincoln, administrative coordinator for child care in Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services. "We are not worried about that? Yes, it can be a problem. But if allowed, it is permitted. There is really not much we can do." There's more.
The Wisconsin Shares program also allows parents to work in child care centers where their children attend. In one case, the newspaper found an employer and a team of parents accused of defrauding taxpayers more than $360,000.
Part of the problem is that the care of children in Wisconsin Shares subsidy program has wide parameters of what the state considers "work". For example, the research found that mothers who "claimed to work for a man ironing shirts, drying fruit and selling works of art made during art class," all received checks funded by taxpayers.
The program is so lax that it even pays for parents to sleep. As a report said, "counties have no way of verifying if parents are truly sleeping while their children are in kindergarten."
An estimated 34,000 families in Wisconsin today take advantage of the $340 million program funded by the taxpayers of Wisconsin.
Most of me doesn’t feel OK with it.
Which part of you does?
This is a strategy, intentional NO DOUBT, to funnel not
inconsiderable amounts of money DIRECTLY to INDIVIDUALS
rather than to middlemen like daycare workers, NONE of which
would likely be the same people who are getting the payments.
Doing it that way is the old fashioned way.
This way it is direct welfare, with little oversight or monitoring that might accrue to a daycare center that might
be subject to certain regulations.
Add to that that this is, as I put it, exploitable as “a family affair” and it is a classic welfare-state scam, one invited (and invented) by the (State?) Government.
This is a 3rd rail, being in Wisconsin, that even Gov. Walker dare not touch.
I’m a 55 year old ‘blue collar’ worker who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Had two kids and wanted more but stopped due to that’s all I could afford.
If someone wants kids, it’s their parental responsibility to raise and provide for them, not the government.
Even a ill 8 year old can work to help support the family. I see no scab in this picture.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/14805
Many landlords will only take Section 8 renters because it’s a guaranteed check.
This is criminal. Put the perps in prison. Seize whatever assets they have. Place their kids in foster homes. I know this won’t happen, but one can dream.
No one should be compelled to pay for another but we are.
I was making the point that $20K per year isn’t much for 4-5 people.
Sure they probably get WIC, S8 etc, but, the cost for daycare far exceeds $20K and if these gals are single I don’t see how they would juggle a job or two jobs and manage the various hours of scheduling which would be different for each child.
The real problem with this program is they are federally subsidized and undermine the intent of Welfare Reform. Which was to make the social safety net temporary, not a lifestyle.
The state is the one in error here and they have trained the girls to live one way instead of encouraging them to live another.
I don’t have a problem with anyone’s grief here but realistically what would be the solution. There are kids involved.
Are you one of the sisters?
“I don’t have a problem with anyone’s grief here but realistically what would be the solution. There are kids involved.”
At the risk of igniting a firestorm of personalized criticisms, the kids are far less important than the Constitution and the Republic for which it stands.
Better lots of dead children, which would be replaced quickle by well trained ‘workers’ than loss of the Republic by bankruptcy from supporting endless bastard farming by the Feral Gub’ment.
As Webster said:
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
No child, or group of children is worth the Constitution.
We made illegitimate children more important than the Constitution and proved what Webster said long ago.
Anarchy squats in the White Mosque as I type.
No..those are my children....
I honestly thought I’d hear the correct answer to this problem but, here goes:
The proper source for charity should be the church. Whatever your faith is.
They would see to it that each families unique needs would be met and it would come with an understanding that the time self determination and self sufficiency looms shortly in their future.
That would put many on the right road quickly.
Now that I’ve thought about my answer a bit further I wonder if we wouldn’t be met at each stop sign/light and exiting a grocery store with even greater numbers of the mother class as they hold a sign with their desperate pleas of “Alms for the poor”......with a pack of dirty faced children playing with a dog....
“Now that I’ve thought about my answer a bit further I wonder if we wouldn’t be met at each stop sign/light and exiting a grocery store with even greater numbers of the mother class as they hold a sign with their desperate pleas of “Alms for the poor”......with a pack of dirty faced children playing with a dog....”
Given that those mothers would be urban black Obama voters, is it not probable the children would be killing the dog and cooking it?
The Immaculated Won sez “Dog is good. Mmmmn, mmmmn mmmmmn!
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. Thread BUMP!
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