Why are the American Tax Payers Funding the Inclusion of the Middle Class in ...

This is the question that needs to be asked when Counties such as Kent County are begging for their bloated FOC and Family Court Budgets to be increased. The State Court Administrator's Office recently made a recommendation to add a Circuit Court Judge. The Kent County Friend of the Court will be soon touting that they are losing money because of changes in Title IV-D welfare. Expect it. Simply put they are misleading you.

Here is what greedy politicians, judges, and Kent County FOC employees are not telling you:

The reason that the Kent County Friend of the Court is going to be whining is because the changes made in Title IV-D welfare is going to require them to pay for 1/3 of their own costs instead of allowing the FOC to double-dip from the same pot for reimbursement of Title IV-D Welfare Services.

The U.S Tax Payer is footing 2/3 of the entire bill for Kent County Title IV-D Welfare Services for the inclusion of the middle-class into their welfare scheme. The rest of the 1/3 is going to now be coming out of Michigan/Kent County residents pockets for including the middle-class into the Title IV-D welfare scheme that have never received cash assistance under TANF welfare programs. 

Tax Payers should reject arguments by Kent County that they are "losing money." Kent County will be "losing money" only because they are providing welfare services without eligibility requirements which has unnecessarily wasted tax payer money and included willing parents that are middle-class into their wasteful welfare program to make it appear to the federal government that their federal monies were justified.

As a resident of Kent County you should be mad as hell that Kent County has been sucking in the middle-class into their title iv-d welfare program at YOUR EXPENSE. *This has been going on for almost a decade* 

Every person that Kent County shoves into their welfare program they get some money from the U.S. Tax Payers. Now that Kent County can't double dip money from the U.S. Tax Payers they are going to be begging the local community to maintain their same level of funding before the double-dipping loophole was caught by legislators. Meaning that they can't use other federal funding to make up for their share of the expense for operating this wasteful welfare program. They are going to start sweating because they are providing too many entitlement welfare services to people that never belonged in the system in the first place. Kent County and other Counties will be caught with their pants down.

I have co-authored a piece on the subject of Title IV-D welfare which can be viewed here. You can also download the that went out nationwide uncovering the bloated Title IV-D agencies that have been trapping middle-class into their welfare programs in an effort to obtain federal funding.

Counties like Kent have been trapping willing parents into temporary orders to elevate their child support collection costs, get more federal money, and manufacture "non custodial parents" that absent court orders that limit the children's interaction with one parent, would provide loving custodial environments for their children. Stop the inclusion of the middle-class into Kent County's welfare programs. Children deserve to be parented by both parents, not to be sold out for federal money.