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• Monday, December 3, 2007 02:44 PM

  Exactly Who Benefits From Eliminating Child Protective Services?

  Wow. Do all of these people who are deriding Ron Paul and his supporters really believe that the government is looking out for their best interests when it comes to health care, education, the water supply, regulation of business?

  Do you really expect any rational person in a Post-Enron Post-Halliburton Post-Blackwater age to believe that corporate America has earned our trust?

  Enron bankrupted citizens and got caught on tape laughing about it! Haliburton is under so many on-going fraud investigations that it’s impossible to know where to begin with them. Blackwater, Bush’s private mercenaries, are also under so many “unnecessary force/murder” investigation and over billing/fraud investigation that it’s difficult to believe anyone still thinks these corporate for profit mercenaries are better (hell, even equal to!) our United States soldiers!

  My goodness! We’ve already turned over government functions to private business and what happened? Murder, torture and literally billions of dollars in cash missing and unaccounted for!

  And your theory is that these un-elected and totally unaccountable CEO’s are somehow “better” than democratically elected officials?

  So you’d rather eliminate elections and just hand things over to unelected CEO’s under the theory that our democratically elected government officials are somehow not as trustworthy as the CEO’s of Enron and Worldcom?

  Really? Seriously?

  If I want to treat my kids who are ill at home, I don't want the gov't telling me it's child abuse.

  I do. I especially want someone checking up on you to verify that you aren’t crazy. Think how many children could have been saved had someone in Child Protective Services done their jobs properly or those local agencies had been properly staffed and funded?

  How many children have been physically abused by their parents because anti-government zealots (like Bush!) have de-funded that agency on the theory that “people should be free to beat their kids in privacy”?

  The people screaming the loudest for privacy in family matters (it often seems) are the very ones doing things they ought not be doing. Sorry, but it’s true.

  I don’t think turning over our health and welfare to Enron is going to improve our quality of life – I think it will lower it. Substantially. I also don’t think totally de-funding (or eliminating) social services and protective services is going to make anyone “freer” except the child molesters.

  —Anonymous
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