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More and more groups are taking a stand for their children to have equal access to both parents without further state intrusion and incredible bureacratic taxpayer waste. As many of you know, child custody cases are driven by Federal incentives for the States to arrive at two conclusions: 1. Create an absent parent whether or not there was one before. 2. Create a Child Support Court Order for State Bureacracies to enforce. These two predetermined conclusions allow the States to collect massive federal block grants by forcing the over-participation of middle and upper-class feuding families in the Title IV-D welfare programs.  These bureacratic agencies want more of your tax money and will continue to break up families at taxpayer expense unless you stand up for your children and ask that legislators reduce available funding so that agencies provide services only to actual needy families instead of abusing the programs for State revenue generation at taxpayer expense.

The State of Michigan has growing legal problems regarding its' defunct Judiciary and the broken system that has been operating against residents. The ACLU, on February 22, 2006, filed a suit naming the State of Michigan and Jennifer Granholm, alleging that "Michigan is violating the state and federal constitutions by failing to fund and oversee a system to ensure that criminal defendants, who can't afford an attorney, receive sufficient legal representation." The Detroit News on Thursday, also reported that "as many as 90 percent of the people who are charged with serious crimes in Michigan are forced to use public defenders because they don't have the money to hire their own attorney."

A Press Secretary for Jennifer Granholm was quick to state that "obviously the governor is committed to protecting the constitutional rights of all citizens." I couldn't disagree more with Granholm's propaganda department. Michigan routine engages in interfering with basic rights on a daily basis when it comes to privacy, property, and family. The culprit to many of the violations is excess federal funding programs that base payment on negative program results.

Even though the Public Defenders aren't funded, Michigan is quick to fund its' Friend of the Court operations, including the 45% over-participation that shouldn't even be in the program in the first place. Let's take this excess money and provide it to the Public Defense funds as soon as possible. For each rushed judgment in a Family Court Case that results in a child support order, the State of Michigan gets additional funding. For each inmate that is housed in County Jails from the federal inmate population, additional money is sent to the County. Follow the money and you can start to follow where the rights violations occur most frequently.

It's time to scale back programs that don't work and give the money back to the people instead of raising our taxes. It's simple, it's right, and it could be done overnight.

48 Hours is investigating an ongoing case surrounding Darren Mack, "a Reno pawn shop owner who has been charged with attempted murder in that shooting as well as first-degree murder in the stabbing death earlier that day of Mack's estranged wife, Charla."  Be sure to tune in Saturday night at 10:00pm on CBS.

48 Hours Mystery - Marriage, Sex and Murder 

The June 12, 2006 murder of Charla Mack in Reno, and the same-day shooting of family-court judge Chuck Weller, who was overseeing Mack's divorce from husband Darren, are investigated. Darren Mack is the chief suspect in both crimes. Troy Roberts is the correspondent.

In response to Jennifer Granholm's plan to bring in more immigrant workers at the expense of State residents: "no en mi moneda de diez centavos" - Not on my dime, Jennifer Granholm.

According to SperoForum.Com, also confirmed by the Columbus Dispatch, Jennifer Granholm wants to bring in more migrant workers to Michigan, marketing this State's social services programs and benefits to encourage them to come to Michigan. Michigan papers were busy covering how our Governor wants to raise our taxes and must have overlooked Granholm's "other plans" to finish converting the residents to welfare programs under her control.

“Venga a Michigan” (which means “Come to Michigan”) is the official program that intends to fill in the migrant labor shortage in 2006 in Michigan. Officials from the state Department of Labor and Economic Growth visited sites in Texas last week where jobs are scarce for members of the Hispanic community.

The officials showed a video in Spanish to prospective laborers that touted the jobs, housing, education and health services available to them in Michigan. Michigan officials met with some 500 families during their visit to Texas.

In a State that certainly has no shortage of available labor and where jobless claims rose to 357,000 last week according to an article entitled Michigan and Virginia lead nation in jobless claims increases (Detroit News 2-15-2007) why is Michigan's Governor recruiting Texas Migrants to come work in our State and join the State's Social Welfare programs? Bear in mind that its not like our agricultural companies can just up and move out like the rest of the State's employers, why not encourage recruitment of our State's unemployed for stable seasonal employment?

This State already has a 1 in 9 Food Assistance Program, where the State is justifying that there are even more people that qualify who haven't applied. Is it the goal of our State to truly become a "Welfare State?"

I guess it is really easy to see how we are getting such a high deficit when our government continually encourages free for all welfare spending on programs for migrant workers and other groups that shouldn't even qualify for services, while offering to raise taxes for the rest that have the few remaining stable jobs in the State. I only have this to say: "Not on my dime Jennifer Granholm."

Lary Holland granted permission for this article as a guest editor at MichiganDemocrat.Net and continues writing about this and similar issues affecting the nation at http://www.laryholland.com.

The State of Michigan fails its children whether they are stuck in foster care homes or involved in child-custody disputes between parents. Large federal block grants repeatedly compromise and sway the discretion of family court judges in Michigan.

The Social Security Act proscribes programs under Title IV for Aid to Needy Families. Unfortunately the programs are often geared towards state revenue generation as opposed to helping families or their children. All too often the programs provide incentive for predetermined outcomes of separating children from parents, whether it be through the foster care system or the creation of an absent parent in a child custody lawsuit, often under the guise of the the subjective "best interests" standard.

The Associated Press today reported that a Judge will be granting class-action status in a foster care lawsuit on behalf of the state's 19,000 foster children in the next couple of weeks.

According to the article about the suit, "It alleges that the state's foster-care system has for years been plagued by shortcomings in resources and services that have resulted in inadequate physical and mental care and foster children being repeatedly moved between homes."

The State of Michigan's legal bill is going to keep climbing with more and more groups getting fed up with how Michigan treats its children as a commodity instead of human beings that need both parents.

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A guest column was written today for Michigan Democrat.Net:

"Jennifer Granholm, Michigan's Democrat Governor, has a plan, to take more of your money. Her plan is not to cut government employees like Chrysler's estimated 13,000 cuts to stay solvent, but rather just to tax you more. If business operated the way our government does, there wouldn't be a single one left because customers wouldn't want to pay the high product costs or the high employee salaries. Michigan's government employees certainly aren't the ones on government food assistance, in fact, they are probably eating pretty well these days."

Holland calls for about a 50% reduction in Friend of the Court staffing and a change in focus of the organization from state revenue generation back to aid for needy families. You can read the whole article at the Michigan Democrat site.

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Dearborn — A local parents' rights group has pledged its support for a Jordanian American who filed a federal lawsuit in January against the Michigan Department of Human Services.

You can visit their website at: http://www.parentsforchildren.net

You can attend their next rally this Friday, February 16, 2007 by contacting their organizer via telephone at: 313-999-6685 for more information or showing up at:

Time: 3:30pm through 4:00pm

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The Honolulu Standard reported:

"Hawai'i's Child Support Enforcement Agency ranks last in the country in collecting overdue child support payments, according to federal statistics."

What the report didn't bring up was that the focus of the program doesn't have to really do with the children, but providing and collecting child support as a welfare benefit to middle and upper class families that shouldn't be in the program in the first place, all at taxpayer expense. The State has shifted its focus to revenue generation and competition for collecting the "most" instead of focusing on families that actually need the services. This is a huge waste of tax payer resources, when people are receiving services that they would not otherwise qualify for.

The State is obviously overburdened with trying to provide service to the additional 45% caseload that is estimated at being families 150% over the poverty level before even receiving the services. The State should focus on those that actually need services instead of trying to compete for more federal money while forcing affluent families into the program. The money is still taxpayer money even if it comes out of a different line of your paycheck.

Let's limit these welfare programs that are being developed under the guise of helping our children so they actually focus on needy families instead of state revenue generation. The only ones truely benefitting from an unrestricted welfare program are the State employees receiving high salaries that are competing for more.  

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A Federal District Court Judge ruled that it is against the law for an officer to shoot a father in the back for a misdemeanor child support charge.

More evidence of a program that is lacking sufficient adminstrative and legal controls, where even the officers have become the executioners of the corrupted legal system.

According to the article:

"LITTLE ROCK -- A Kensett police officer violated a suspect's rights during a 2005 attempt to arrest the man on misdemeanor charges and the officer should pay more than a half-million dollars, a federal judge says."

If anyone wants to argue the mythical and nonexistent "best interests" of the child being served by a father being shot in the back, please send me an email and I will sell you a prime piece of property in Louisiana.

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