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The child support program rewards the states for actually creating broken homes and is an obstacle to shared equal parenting. Check out http://www.nationwideblueprint.com for more information about the program.

Articles are coming out across the board in Virginia and other states portraying that the child support program is ripping off poor mothers and poor families because of a $25.00 application fee after it has been determined the agency has distributed $500.00 or more in a calendar year. The propaganda couldn't be further from the truth and is simply untrue. My general response is that the State bureaucracies are just trying to solidify their position as savior to keep their jobs by rewarding a single party with a negative outcome, which is broken homes. Our irresponsible and wasteful government at work. My general editorial response (198 words) is pretty much as follows:

Federal cuts will not put more W. VA
families on welfare. This is a smokescreen that state bureaucracies put up in
an attempt to maintain comfy government employment with lush benefits.

The child support programs were intended to recuperate money
provided by the federal government to the states for welfare. This turned the
states that participate in voluntary Title IV-D programs into taxpayer
subsidized collection agencies. States now focus on revenue generation by
forcing middle and upper-income families into these “free for all” welfare
programs.

The states have created their own dilemma by trying to
artificially increase their participation numbers instead of focusing on families
that need them most, the lower income participants. Only 11% of the cases
should qualify for services on the taxpayer dime; people already eligible for
other state welfare programs.

There are sufficient private collection firms to make up the
difference of any budget cuts by removing nearly half the caseload which
shouldn’t qualify or be eligible for free government services in the first
place. Adding restrictions and removing income ineligible families will
streamline the agency and force the state to focus their programs on aid to
needy families and save the taxpayers immensely.

If a government agency cannot even protect your data...why would you think they could protect or decide in matters that are best for your children. Children need both parents to look over their children, not incompetent government bodies that benefit from tearing apart homes.

• FOIA REQUEST to State of Michigan Department of Human Services: HERE

• UPDATE ON FOIA REQUEST: HERE

• ACTUAL FOIA REQUEST: HERE

The above requests are directed to the Michigan Department of Human Services the Financial Data Match program required for the states to receive voluntary grant and incentive monies from the federal government.

Here are some great examples of what can happen with citizens' information that is in the hands of incompetent state agencies:

• Child Support Paperwork Glitch Exposes Private Information of over 10,000 Citizens: HERE
• Mounting Accountability Problems With Child Support Programs: HERE
• Identity Theft:: Opt Out of Family Court Services Before it Happens to YOU!: HERE
• Privatization, Identity Theft, and Crony Capitalism" http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=1186
• Hacker Breaks Into Nebraska Child-Support Database" FoxNews.Com, June 29, 2006
• Vermont Computer Hacked: 70,000 users at risk" Lock Down Your Identity January 30, 2007
• California Faxes 1170 Citizen's Private Information to Wrong Place: Press Release: California DCSS January 30, 2007

One blatantly apparent problem with Michigan's Financial Data Match program is that banks could potentially share citizen's information without their knowledge and without them having any open family court cases. This give the opportunity to the requesting agency to sift through the information of anyone's accounts that is greater than $500.00 as a potential match to an open family court case. The problem also is when a wrong match is made and money is taken from an individual that there is no recourse because the state has granted immunity from liability in these actions.

Do you want your personal information shared with government agencies that don't have adequate safeguards, violate federal privacy regulations, and laptops containing confidential information about you floating loosely around all over the place? Do you want to have to rebuild your credit from scratch because of mistakes made by incompetent government agencies that are sharing information back and forth?

You should opt-out of Family Court Services and/or Friend of the Court services as soon as possible and BEFORE identity theft happens to you! Here's how!

Additional Criminal Activities that may already be occuring with your private information:

Title IV-D Program Serves the Greedy Not the Needy: More Child Support Fraud Reports

A Gas Station Owner is out over $15,000.00 for fraudulent unpaid child support debit card transactions but more importantly a total of approximately $82,0000.00 of money was spent without pin number verification. The Morning Star published a story called "Fraudulent Support Spree" on July 4, 2007. The curious thing is that charges have not been filed against the woman that was utilizing the State funds and the story makes no mention relating to the money not being allocated to the children for their expenses. Lack of Accountability and other major problems are a growing class of occurrences plaguing the overcrowded State Title IV-D programs where over half the participants in the Title IV-D program are middle and upper-class families that should not receive services through free-for-all welfare funding associated with the Federal Title IV-D. The current program unfortunately focuses on State revenue generation rather than actual aid to needy families which adds to the widespread problems being reported across the nation.

Child Support Program Plagued With Problems

Additional Federal Title IV-D Information

The Grim Reaper came to collect a little bit early again and he granted me an adjournment "sine die" while I complete my work here.

I met a gentleman the other day named Mr. Reaper, he was an old friend. He came to collect a bit early and granted me another adjournment, this one "sine die."

Some of you may have heard that either the Friend of the Court attempted a mail bomb hit on me or I was in a freak accident. The reality of it was, I was in an explosion. This explosion was at point blank range and it happened on Thursday in the middle of the day. I was standing next to a truck with a large gasoline tank, the kind that holds over 30 gallons or more. As I approached the tank on the driver's side I heard the sound of a canon and a blaze of metal and fire exploded into me.

I was able to block the main fireball (the majority of it) from my face with my left forearm. Unfortunately, bare skin does not hold up very well against Gasoline Liquid, Gasoline Vapor, and the Explosive Force necessary to escape a solid rusty metal tank.

http://www.burnsurgery.com/Documents/gasoline_safety.doc

Now some things that I happened to learn about was:

"In spite of the routine use of gasoline, many people are unaware of or unappreciative of the dangers of gasoline. Gasoline is dangerous because it is highly volatile – the fumes are capable of ignition up to 12 feet away from a pooled source.  This inherent danger is further multiplied by its explosive potential. Flammables burn at close to room temperature (100 degrees F), when they are near a spark, flame, or even static electricity. It can float on water and may spread long distances, making ignition and flash back possible. Gasoline vapor is highly explosive and may ignite as a “fireball” with a temperature of 15,000 degrees F."

Now again, my forearm was able to stop the majority of the fireball as I was escaping on the tail end of the concussive force of the tank exploding into me. As I was hit with the entire force of the metal and rust fragmentation I was also splashed with gasoline and remained on fire. As the doctors have already asked, are you sure that you didn't black out from the force? I keep replying, I wanted to, but I didn't really have time to fall asleep while I was on fire. I immediately had to focused on putting fires out that were still on my body, tearing off clothing and extinguishing open flames that were still on me. This was successful after a considerable amount of damage to my arms and abdominal region both through bruising, shrapnel, and burns.

I obtained a ride from a family member to the nearest walk-in clinic and asked if they were equipped to handle the damage that has occurred to me as it was becoming pretty critical at this point. I needed immediate x-rays to see if my left ribs pierced my lungs, because I was having problems breathing and the amount of visible trauma that had occurred to that general area was pretty visible. They were unable to handle any of the care except to wrap me up. They contacted an ambulance to get me to the nearest hospital. Their surgeon was not equipped to address the damage to my left arm. I received a tetanus shot and a vallium shot and eventually an iv which I refused for sometime. I had to get over it, to get treated.

I was taken by ambulance and arrived at one of Michigan's Burn Centers for them to begin working on me. Each day has been a new set of issues associated with the blast, but it looks like I am finally on my last full day at the Hospital. I will be checking out tomorrow after I am cleared by a neurologist and an ear nose and throat specialist regarding some equilibrium and migraine issues. The bottom line is, I have alot of work to do, and I don't have time to lay down and die. We all have alot of work to do, so let's get it done!

• Support: the Bike Trek for Equal Parenting Trip (August 11 - 18, 2007)
• Support: the DC Rally for Equal Parenting (August 18, 2007)
• Support: Budget Cuts for Title IV-D Services
• Support: House Bill 4564