California Legislation Regarding Convicted Animal Abusers Thread Deleted - Page 3

That's $1,500 per month PER CHILD, by the way, and it sure smells like money to me! A work buddy of mine said he did a job at a gated estate on Palos Verdes Peninsula (VERY rich neighborhood), owned by a woman who had a "non-profit" umbrella organizations with SEVEN of these juvenile / child foster homes under her, each set up as a "non-profit", and her monthly gross was $150,000.. That's $150,000, per month, before expenses. Expenses probably consisted of anything she could write off, in addition to legit expenses like a visiting nurse and certain administrative expenses.

This brings up a very interesting point.. The CPS system was originally set up by the Federal gov't under the 1974 Mondale Act, and has been adopted in every state under their own Federally compliant charters.. The Federal gov't cannot force participation, but offers handsome funding incentives.. the "carrot" approach, which seems to work well.. So, well, in fact, that programs are set up not so much as a matter of conscience or need, but out of a desire to go for the money. The CPS system has become a multi-BILLION dollar industry. And, just connecting the dots a few steps ahead, I can see that this is where the AR activists want to go with pets. If the current trend continues, pets and animals will have legal standing as persons in courts of law, and right to legal representation and each animal will have an advocate of their own, just as children might have.

Now, children are people.. little people.. and they have need for advocacy. I have no problem with that. I DO have a problem with comparing animals to people and giving them equal legal standing. There is no foundation for this in jurisprudence, yet, but AR activists are working towards that. They would like to see a foster care system for animals, just like CPS, becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. And, if your neighbor is annoyed by your dogs' barking and decides to "drop a dime" on you, the authorities can come and take all your animals, AND your children, and you will have to sort it all out in court. You will also be obligated to pay the costs of the storage of all your two-legged and four-legged charges, as long as they remain in the custody of a court-appointed guardian.. be it for life, then so be it. $$$$$$$

So, you know where this is all going, and remember I told you. I find it very, very interesting that no one particularly gave a rat's ass about children, animals, elders, mentally / emotionally retarded patients, until there was big money in it.. VOILA!!! Suddenly we become a passionate and caring nation of do-gooders! Too bad about the perception of children and others in the system, who do not feel very well loved, and often feel helpless and abused. From time to time the abuse becomes impossible to hide any longer and we hear of children dying in foster homes where care was negligent, probably rendered by the relative of someone high up in government administration, and otherwise unemployable.

Just like Ronald Reagan said: "Government is not the solution.. It is the problem"!