Privatizing CPS...another "option"...i.e. an alternate way the corporations can ruin our lives.

in #familyprotection5 years ago (edited)

The idea of privatizing "child protective" "services' (CPS) is not new. The State of Kansas privatized their entire CPS system many years ago, with mixed results. But the newest craze seems to be a push towards "for profit" foster care, and associated "services." This phenomenon seems to be coming into play at the same time (surprise, surprise) that corporations are also pushing to take over public education in much of the Western world. I have raved about the weaknesses, blatant corruption, and outright evil of government-run CPS systems, but there is very little chance that shifting the profit incentive for seizing children and breaking up families from liberal governments to liberal, globalized, NWO-supporting corporations--most of which no longer even have any national identities or
loyalties--is going to improve outcomes.

As I pointed out in yesterday's article, whatever happens in Europe (most specifically in the U.K.) seems to be almost immediately reflected in what happens in North America. Consider the follwoing two links:

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/foster-care-sjbn/

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/does-privatized-foster-care-put-kids-at-risk/562604/

These articles are both from this past summer, and were written only a couple of weeks apart. One refers to the privatization efforts in Britain, and the other to the same thing in the United States. Both, to be fair, are cautious about the concept of privatization in general, and for-profit privatization, in particular. That's a good thing, but as we are all finding out with more constant regularity--what big business wants, big business usually gets, regardless of public welfare or opinion.

Consider this excerpt from that first citation:

"Hard earned money is being stripped away from the British people to fund corrupt social services, legal systems and foster carers–some of whom have been known to be paid around £2,000 a week. Years ago, investment bankers viewed the fostering system as a high private equity with a propensity for exponential growth. The Financial Times revealed that Caretech, which also runs adult learning disability, children’s and mental health homes, became the first stock market-listed company to enter the sector in 2010, with the purchase of four fostering groups for £14m."

AND this excerpt from the second citation:

"Buzzfeed’s harrowing 2015 investigation into MENTOR exposed the grim repercussions of privatized foster care, detailing Alexandria’s and others’ tragic cases that likely resulted from shortcuts made in the pursuit of profit. Piling too many cases on social workers, for instance, can result in abuse when foster parents aren’t properly vetted or monitored. Among the omissions in Alexandria’s case: MENTOR failed to interview Small’s sisters, who said they would have warned the company about her. (MENTOR denied that it cuts corners to make money.)"

Clearly, turning CPS corruption into a profit-making enterprise for rapacious internationalized corporations is no panacea. In fact, I would say there is only one place that is WORSE than incentivizing governments to seize children under false pretenses, and that would be to do the same thing, instead, via multi-national corporations that are totally soulless as well-- PLUS totally unaccountable to the people (even in theory.)

Now, everyone should know that when the government partners with the private sector to pick winners and losers in what should be the marketplace of free competition for goods and services, you no longer have any form of capitalism, and have shifted over into economic fascism. This seems to be the world our "Powers that Be" have in mind for us...a Communist government and social structure...totalitarian and totally invasive...paired with economic fascism, hidden behind a facade of "privatized, 'capitalized' welfare distribution and 'services'."

Sadly, even many people in the movement to reform or eliminate CPS will likely be fooled by this "alternative." The "Powers that Be" ALWAYS prepare the "alternatives" they are willing to accept, and then they secretly promote those alternatives by using their lapdog "media" to propagandize the people to accept the transition by pooh poohing the planned alternative as undesirable. The people then consider that if the mainstream media is "against something" than it must be good, and they fall all over themselves to then support it. We clearly see this playing out in a slightly more advance fashion with the current march to the McSchools (voucher "choice") agendas, where public schools will eventually be replaced by corporate run FOR PROFIT corporations, and true choice will be gone, as charter schools with no genuinely elected school boards or any local control fill the gap.

With the McSchools agenda, as well as the nascent McFoster care plans, it also may be the case--to some extent--that the current systems are being made to fail on purpose. This is more currently evident with the public schools which have been intentionally dumbed down now for decades, making the marginally (if at all) "better" charter schools the coveted "solution" to the problem created by those providing their very profitable replacement plans. It is possible that the current CPS milieu is on the same type of propaganda trajectory, with all the horrors even being sometimes covered in the mainstream media as a prelude to giving the whole system over to private FOR PROFIT corporations also.

Neither government nor corporations should be handling the very few cases of legitimate abuse. That should be purely an LEO matter on the front end, and a private charity/church/local matter on the back end..i.e. providing resources for those few children who may truly need protection from abusive parents.

Let's hope enough good people wake up to the bait-and-switch shell game before it is too late.

We don't need or want EITHER of the bogus "options" provided for us, you elites.

Here that you mattoids! No more Clinton or Trump "choices" EITHER!!

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