Fatherhood Initiatives and Nanny Government

Generations of welfare cases and a perennial poor underclass have been created, with no work ethic, no desire to succeed, no interest in education as a way out of poverty, and no personal responsibility

Fatherhood Initiatives and Nanny Government

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By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

In the age when big government has displaced and replaced fathers, making traditional families obsolete by giving financial incentives in various forms of welfare to millions of out-of-wedlock mothers in head of household families, the idea of fatherhood programs and initiatives seems commendable.

According to the Pew Research Center, four in ten babies were born in 2008 to unwed women. Approximately 2.6 million households were led by single fathers in 2011, a sizable increase when compared to fewer than 300,000 in 1960. Twenty-three percent of single-household families were father-only families and 77 percent were mother-only families.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which studied 27 industrialized countries found that 25.8 percent of children in the U.S. are raised by a single parent compared to 14.9 percent in other countries. Seventy-two percent of black children are raised in a single parent household.

The OECD reported public spending on child welfare and education in the U.S. to be $160,000, higher than the $149,000 expenditure in other countries, most spending occurring after the crucial early childhood years. The study indicated that “the United States is the only OECD country that does not have a national paid parental leave policy.” It is important to point out that all socialist countries have such a policy that is sometimes abused by parents who learn how to game the system.

According to the Census Bureau, 32% of the 35 million families with children under the age of 18 were run by one parent.http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013F.html

Because in 2013 twenty-five percent of children under 18 lived in households run by their mothers, the federal, state, and local governments partnered with public and private organizations to develop programs to help noncustodial fathers be financially and personally responsible for their children, boosting involvement in their children’s lives.

“Responsible fatherhood” program

“Responsible fatherhood” programs are very important because research shows that children raised in single-parent families are “more likely to do poorly in school, have emotional and behavioral problems, become teenage parents, and have poverty level incomes.”http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31025.pdf

Federal funding for “responsible fatherhood” programs comes from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), TANF state Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE), Child Support Enforcement (CSE), and Social Services Block Grant (Title XX).

Fifty million dollars per year in competitive grants to states, territories, Indian tribes, public and non-profit groups were included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 for responsible fatherhood initiatives (2006-2010)

P.L. 111-291 (December 8, 2010) appropriated $75 million for healthy marriage promotion and $75 million for responsible fatherhood activities. Fatherhood programs promote the importance of “emotional, psychological, and financial connections of fathers to their children.” The fatherhood programs include “parenting education, responsible decision-making, mediation services for both parents, conflict resolution, coping with stress, problem solving skills, peer support, and job training activities such as skills development, interviewing skills, job search, job-retention skills, and job-advancement skills.”(Carmen Solomon-Fears, Specialist in Social Policy, January 28, 2014)

Child Support Enforcement

Child Support Enforcement (CSE) funds are used to promote access and visitation rights for fathers. Both single mothers on welfare and the biological father are more likely to have dropped out of school, have little work experience, and are likely unable to find and/or keep a job.

Representative Nancy Johnson said that these fathers are “dead broke,” not “dead beats” and the federal government “should help these noncustodial fathers meet their financial and emotional obligations to their children.” (House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, Hearing on Fatherhood Legislation, Statement of Chairman Nancy Johnson, 106th Congress, 1st session, October 5, 1999, p. 4)
http://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/stay-home-dad/
President George W. Bush’s Executive Office wrote in a “Blueprint for New Beginnings – A Responsible Budget for America’s Priorities” (February 28, 2001 in Chapter 12, p. 75), “While fathers must fulfill their financial commitments, they must also fulfill their emotional commitments. Dads play indispensable roles that cannot be measured in dollars and cents: nurturer, mentor, disciplinarian, moral instructor, and skills coach, among other roles.”
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2002-BLUEPRINT/pdf/BUDGET-2002-BLUEPRINT.pdf

To make matters worse, some noncustodial fathers are incarcerated and, upon release, must re-enter the lives of their children but do not have the skills to cope with such a monumental undertaking, further negatively affecting the fragility of the family that needs healthy relationship skills training.

Women’s groups such as the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the National Women’s Law Center expressed concern that:

Single-mother families might be under-valued by the emphasis on the importance of the father.
Services for fathers would take away from services for mothers.
Fathers’ rights groups would get more leverage in child custody cases, child support, and visitation arrangements.
Solomon-Fears asks the following questions in a Congressional Research Service report:

Is the federal government promoting and supporting the father’s involvement in their children’s lives regardless of the father’s relationship with the mother?
What if the father has children by more than one woman?
What about incarcerated parents or those recently released from jail?

Federal government support for counseling, education, and supervised visitation for abusive fathers who may or may not want to reconnect with their children? (RL31025, p. 13)
The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system has improved its collection of child support payments during 1978-2011 from $1 billion to $27.3 billion, located more parents, discovered paternities, and established child support orders.

Proponents of the CSE program additionally approve of the “increased personal responsibility and welfare cost-avoidance.”

Critics of the CSE program enumerate the nanny state, “big brother” compliance venues such as withholding licensure (professional, driver’s, recreational), passport revocation, seizure of bank accounts, retirement funds, lottery winnings, and automatic withholding from pay checks. The CSE program ”collects only 20 percent of child support obligations for which it has responsibility and only 57 percent of its caseload.”

CSE program is based exclusively on financial support, critics say, alienating low-income fathers from their children when they cannot meet their child support payments. Such a narrow view of fatherhood, specialists say, devalues fathers and robs them of the role as “nurturer, disciplinarian, mentor, and moral instructor.” On the other hand, it is hard to be a disciplinarian or moral instructor to your child when you lack the moral compass to begin with or are in jail.

Noncustodial fathers from welfare supported families complain that the CSE program does not help their children because child support payments are used for welfare reimbursements to the federal government and the state. Mothers use the CSE program as a threat to report fathers to the CSE authorities, to take them back to court, to have more wages garnished, and to have them arrested.

The 1996 welfare reform law stated that “marriage is the foundation of a successful society.” “Marriage is an essential institution of a successful society that promotes the interests of children. However, some child welfare advocates argue that marriage is not necessarily the best alternative for all women and their children,” especially when taking into account an abusive father. (CRS report, “Fatherhood Initiatives: Connecting Fathers to Their Children,” Carmen Solomon-Fears, p. 14)

Research found in 2011 that 72.11 percent of black births were to unmarried women and 29.1 percent of white births were to unmarried women. Based on this demographic, the researchers, Ronald B. Mincy and Chien-Chung Huang, from Bowling Green State University, thought it “racially insensitive” to devote five times as much money for marriage promotion as for responsible fatherhood promotion. Thus in 2011, P.L. 111-291 made the funding for responsible fatherhood grants equal to marriage promotion grants.

The federal government is trying to redress the disintegration of the American family, a problem it has created through generous welfare programs that have rewarded out-of-wedlock motherhood and replaced fathers. Many generations of welfare cases and a perennial poor underclass have been created, with no work ethic, no desire to succeed, no interest in education as a way out of poverty, and no personal responsibility.

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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, (Romanian Conservative) is a freelance writer (Canada Free Press, Romanian Conservative, usactionnews.com), author, radio commentator (Silvio Canto Jr. Blogtalk Radio, Butler on Business, The Liberty Express, Free Market Radio, and Republic Broadcasting Network), and speaker. Her book, “Echoes of Communism, is available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Short essays describe health care, education, poverty, religion, social engineering, and confiscation of property". A second book, “Liberty on Life Support,” is also available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle. A third book, “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy,” is a best seller at Amazon.com under Globalism, Politics, and Environmental Policy.

Her commentaries reflect American Exceptional-ism, the economy, immigration, and education.Visit her website, ileanajohnson.com.

Dr. Johnson can be reached at: ileana1959@gmail.com

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Silence

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

 Martin Luther King Jr., I am reminded of one aspect of him that is most compelling to me. Over and over, King warned us to refrain from keeping silent—to speak up when we encounter injustice. One of his most profound statements was: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” King reminded us that we cannot merely sit back and watch injustice; we need to speak out and consciously push back against it.

All too often we complain about injustice and prejudice; we watch as the rights, history, and culture of others are trampled on or erased (take a look around, it’s happening now). Yet we say nothing and we do nothing. Sometimes, we refrain from speaking out because we assume that “speaking out” means protesting with signs or acts of civil disobedience. Speaking out can manifest in this way, but it can also happen through writing, through the way you live your life (being consistent in your values and actions), and by pointing out injustice in everyday situations when you see it.

Writing about the civil-rights era, King said, “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” I can’t help but think that his words are applicable today in our current political climate—a climate in which civility has been replaced by anger, hate, and atrocious deeds. In order to change the tone of the rhetoric of hate, we must speak up. We must stand up against injustice and for those who are being treated unjustly.

King urged us to feel passionate about freedom and justice, even calling upon us to give our life for what we believe in—much like he did. He said, “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” Whether he met this in actuality does not matter to me. What he was saying is that when we feel strongly, we must act in the ways that we know how. We must use our strengths as individuals to make society better and we must act as the conscience of our nation.

Whenever I feel strongly about an issue but fear the idea of speaking out, I think of the words of King. He said “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” These are simple words, but they are wonderfully profound in their message to all of us.

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A Call to Duty and Action!Feinstein’s Cronyism Punishes Homeless Veterans

A Call to Duty and Action

Feinstein’s Cronyism Punishes Homeless Veterans

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans:

This is a call to duty and action.

Our Veterans need your support to block a Federal District Judgeship recommended by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein who continues to reward her rich cronies at the expense of disabled homeless Veterans in Los Angeles

Feinstein Rewards Rich Cronies at The Expense of Homeless Veterans:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/04/16/sen-feinstein-rewards-rich-cronies-at-the-expense-of-homeless-veterans/

When you sort through the bullet-pointed summary and timeline in the article, you can see how Sen. Feinstein has really done a number on Veterans with her backroom wheeling and dealing, all the while lying that this land must be used for Veterans only.

We’re garnering rapid support for the attached Resolution and would appreciate if you could reach out to your organizations for support.

In addition, please send this to all your trusted news sources and request that they investigate Sen. Feinstein’s abuse of power and her aiding and abetting in the misappropriation of Veterans property, including political payback for a Federal District Judgeship to the U.S. Attorney who fought against disabled homeless Veterans and their legally deeded land in Los Angeles.

Fellow American Patriots need to unify and block this sinister and duplicitous Judgeship nomination, then the publicity will finally expose all the crime and corruption of Sen. Feinstein and her cronies and blow wide open this shameful assault on war-injured and impoverished Veterans.

This is criminal in the worst sense and requires Congressional, FBI and Grand Jury Investigations.

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The Culture is killing us

Over the past three decades the culture has morphed into a vapid, shallow backwater of mediocrity. Ignorance is the order of the day

The Culture is killing us

One of my college professors, told me the penultimate difference between capitalism and socialism was that under capitalism man exploited man, while under socialism it was exactly the other way around.

I personally couldn’t have defined the difference any more succinctly than my late prof, but I am given to wonder how any sentient person could still believe that socialism is the salvation of man.

Interestingly, most socialist regimes of the past were imposed on countries through violent revolutionary actions that entailed significant numbers of deaths and near endless human suffering in order to someday create a ‘workers’ paradise. Think the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, etc. Fairly each and every nation that has ever adopted socialism as its economic model has failed to advance the fortunes of its citizenry. Indeed, the exact opposite has happened. Hence the total collapse of the Soviet Union and its subservient satellites, the failure of the Cuban economy, where the average income is between $12 to $25 per month and the misery now plaguing Venezuela, where socialism was imposed by Hugo Chavez’s revolution in 1999.

One thing for which socialism is famous is its penchant for lowering the standard of living for everyone, save and except those of the ruling class, or nomenklatura, as it came to be called in the old Soviet Union. Hence the leaders lived like the Czar they overthrew and the rest of the population shared equally in misery, a fact that bespeaks my old prof’s sardonic definition of the difference between the two systems.

America is currently undergoing a revolution in efforts to turn its own economy from capitalism into socialism. And while this is not a particularly remarkable development in and of itself, what makes it remarkable is that for the first time in history socialism is being imposed on the people by its existing ruling class. The process to achieve this isn’t necessarily one involving violent revolution, but the end result will undoubtedly be as if it had.

Take for example the imposition of a draconian national healthcare regime. Designed to provide coverage for some 10% of the American population that did not have healthcare coverage, the regime was imposed on the other 90% that did. And while the administration crows hollowly about this Brobdingnagian victory, evidence of its harm is everywhere.

No rational individual could possibly believe that 7 million Americans actually signed on to this outlandish and expensive scheme, but it was necessary for the administration to postulate this lie, if for no other reason than to offset the over 6 million Americans that were documented having lost their existing healthcare coverage because of the new healthcare law.

But healthcare isn’t the only area in which socialism is being imposed on the nation from the top down. In other areas, such as finance, industry and agriculture the socialist hordes in the form of government regulators are running rampant and wreaking havoc in their wake.

It’s fashionable to blame George W. Bush for the housing crash, but few understand that this economic disaster had been 30 years in the making and was made inevitable by George W.’s predecessor, Bill Clinton. Clinton’s strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act (which was initially instituted by the hapless Jimmy Carter) and its enforcement through Janet Reno’s intimidation of American mortgage lenders created the conditions that resulted directly in the collapse of the housing market and the Great Recession of 2007.

To date none of the policies the Obama administration have imposed on the country have resulted in good economic news. On the contrary, any economic gains in the US economy were in spite of the administration’s policies, not because of them. What’s more, it’s difficult to ascertain if the economy is any better off today than it was in January 2009, given the administration’s mendacity. Is the unemployment rate really at 6.7% as claimed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or is it closer to double digits, when considering that there are over 93 million Americans not participating in the labor force?

Then there’s the global warming/climate change boondoggle, which the administration is once again pursuing with total disregard to the economic damage its policies will impose on the nation. And what’s remarkable, as more and more people see these policies for what they are, i.e. a massive wealth redistribution scheme, its proponents are doubling down their efforts to impose their dubious policies. Now they’re calling for the incarceration of prominent individuals who argue that climate science is still open to debate and they’re legitimizing lying about their claims in the interest of the common good. But it’s all to accomplish a positive outcome.

Where have we heard this before? The Soviet Union? Nazi Germany? Fascist Italy? These are all states whose ruling classes justified their actions because they were working for the common good, much in the same way that our political elites and their intelligentsia are arguing the same.

Saddest of all is my realization that this phenomenon has little, if anything, to do with politics and everything to do with culture. Over the past three decades the culture has morphed into a vapid, shallow backwater of mediocrity. Ignorance is the order of the day. Being smart is no longer desirable. Working hard is for suckers. Honesty is for the naïve. Patriotism is a form of racism and being heterosexual is so yesteryear.

It’s in a culture such as this that diseased philosophies, like those espoused by Barack Obama and his acolytes, find root and blossom. I see very little hope for meaningful change within my lifetime and likely not within the lifetime of my children.

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Devil’s most useful tools: Discouragement

Life Lessons: All you got to do is overcome de devil’s wicked tool: discouragement

Devil’s most useful tools: Discouragement

When teaching me life lessons, my boyhood best friend and mentor,used conundrums so effectively that, once solved, the lessons were indelibly imprinted in my mind, which was the case when he told me about one of the devil’s most useful tools: discouragement.

The old black man explained that Satan had updated some of his tools and was auctioning off the out-of-date versions, among them The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, Wrath, and Sloth.

The sale was a great success. Wealthy bidders were willing to go to any length to get the tools, and offered huge amounts of money for them, knowing they would be extremely useful when dealing dishonestly with other people.

“But,” Jaybird said, “dey wuz one tool — discouragement — that Satan wouldn’t sell, and some of de sho-nuff rich folks wanted to know why.”

“It’s a tool that never needs updating,” Satan told them. “I can depend on it to serve my purposes almost every time. No tool works better for prying open human hearts, and when I get in, I can do just about anything I want to with that heart.”

Discouragement was one of Jaybird’s favorite techniques. His riddles often caused me to rack my brain, give up, and let discouragement sink in.  In time, he’d explain, but only after he knew the solution I wanted to obtain so badly would become a permanent part of the guidelines for life that he was instilling in me.

One day, when I asked him if he was afraid of dying, he put the technique to work.

“Ain’t nothing to dying … once you git de hang o’ it,” he answered.

“That’s stupid,” I retorted. “How can you get the hang of something you will do only one time?”

“Ain’t nothing to dying … once you git de hang o’ it,” he mumbled again.

Whereas Satan uses discouragement for destructive purposes, Jaybird used it constructively. In his own unique way, he was teaching me not to give up when striving to attain worthy goals.

As a patriot,and a Sovereign citizen and former army trainer of young men and women , I sometimes utilize a “can’t do” ruse to generate a “can do” mindset among students.

The strategy involves presenting a challenge in such a way that students are determined to overcome it; then I orchestrate their efforts to obtain the solution.

If I am successful, I teach them what Jaybird taught me: One must never let discouragement be a deterrent to overcoming difficulties encountered on the road to achievement, and that life is an interminable problem-solving process in which discouragement must be overcome constantly. The more it is overcome, the less of an impediment it becomes. Experience in defeating Satan’s tool leads to losses for him and victories for humankind.

Looking at me agonizing in discouragement, Jaybird chuckled, patted me on the head, and said, “Boy, what I want you to see is, once you git de hang o’ it, dey ain’t nuttin’ to livin’. All you got to do is overcome de
devil’s wicked tool: discouragement.”

Think outside the box,live outside the cage

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Veterans on American soil who are visibly crying out for help

Media: Focus on despondent Veterans on American soil who are visibly crying out for help

Malaysian Flight More Newsworthy Than 8,000 Veteran Suicides

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By Robert L. Rosebrock

LOS ANGELES - On March 8, Malaysian Air Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board who were from 15 nations and regions with the majority of them Chinese citizens.  There were three American passengers on board the fateful flight.

Since March 8, CNN and FOX News have been reporting the air disaster non-stop. As a result, we’re forced to watch countless “airline experts” guess and theorize at what might have happened, compounded by countless politicians who are even more clueless.

Since March 8, an estimated 418 of our Military Veterans have committed suicide on American soil. That’s 415 more than the number of American passengers who perished on Flight 370.

A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that that an average of 22 Veterans commit suicide every day

There’s never been any mention on any news station anywhere about the greatest human disaster in American history, which is the catastrophic loss of 8,000 lives annually by suicide of those who defended our Nation’s freedom.

About 70 percent of Veterans who commit suicide are over age 50.

VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki submits: “The mental health and well-being of our courageous men and women who have served the Nation is the highest priority for VA, and even one suicide is one too many.”

Really?

Highest priority?
If the Secretary was really serious and concerned about the loss of a single Veteran from suicide, never mind that 22 Veterans take their own life every day and more than 8,000 a year, don’t you think he’d be appearing on ABC, CBS and NBC, along with CNN and Fox News, reaching out to America’s citizenry for answers and solutions?
And if any of the aforementioned TV / Cable News programs were really serious and concerned about reporting major news, they would be talking about the tragic number of Veteran suicides with the same intensity they are reporting the tragedy of a missing airplane.

Any idea on the total amount of money and man hours that have already been spent searching for the Malaysian airplane?

Have we forgotten the price of war to defend our nation’s freedom, never mind defending other nations around the world?

Let there be no misunderstanding: War is Hell! 

Whether America’s Military men and women are fighting a war or trying to heal from fighting a war, it’s always hell because the war never ends.

When our Military Troops go to war, they serve under the Department of Defense as highly trained professional warriors who are equipped with the finest defense weapons in the world to defeat the toughest enemies in the world.

After returning from war, they are supposed to be served by the Department of Veterans Affairs with the finest healthcare facilities in the world. But instead of healing from overseas war, America’s military Veterans are fighting some of life’s toughest battles, day-by-day, just to survive in the Country they defended with courage and honor.

Unfortunately, these homeland battles are not fought as a collective and supportive Military unit, but as one lonely Veteran at-a-time against arrogant bureaucrats of the VA, which is the second largest bureaucracies in the federal government. 

To make matters worse, Veterans are not trained to fight personal “David vs. Goliath” wars with our own government and they have no protective force or weapons of defense in these endless and tiring battles.

As time goes on, their warrior and survivor skills diminish and their sense of victory becomes hopeless while their opponent keeps getting bigger and more powerful. Tragically, every year more than 8,000 Veterans voluntarily surrender their lives … victims of bureaucratic battle fatigue.

Their only solace is found in Plato’s prophetic claim more than 2,500 years ago: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Every day, 22 American Military Veterans who pledged their lives to defend our Nation’s freedom will end up taking their own lives because we have failed to defend them.

This is unquestionably one of the biggest news stories in the world, but it is being shamefully suppressed here in the USA. 

Its time for the major media to stop searching for “traces of life” in the vast Indian Ocean and to immediately begin focusing on despondent Veterans on American soil who are visibly crying out for help.

God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!

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The Injustice of the Department of Justice

Hopefully true American justice will finally replace our U.S. Government’s injustice against our deprived Veterans

The Injustice of the Department of Justice

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By Robert L. Rosebrock

LOS ANGELES - More than 2500 years ago, Aesop prophetically forewarned: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Putting this into today’s perspective, if a homeless and hungry Veteran pilfers some food for personal survival he or she will go to jail. If dishonest public officials embezzle billions-of-dollars of Veterans’ property for personal advantage, they will be shielded from prosecution. This discriminatory injustice must cease, posthaste!

The Los Angeles Department of Justice (DOJ) has continued its war of injustice against war-injured and impoverished Veterans who are forced to live homeless and hungry in back-alley squalor because the deeded land to their National Veterans Home has been pillaged and plundered for non-Veteran use.

Shamefully, the DOJ has ignored the biggest land-fraud scandal in American history that has become an international disgrace of Biblical proportion because of the inhumane treatment of disabled and disadvantaged homeless Veterans in Los Angeles.

On June 12, 2010, the Los Angeles Times featured an article titled “U.S. Attorney to Target Corruption.”

It was about Andrew Birotte, Jr., the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney who had just announced that he was creating a specialized unit to prosecute public corruption, such as those involving politicians or police officers accused of crimes.  Its mission, he proclaimed, will be “to bring to justice those public officials and public employees who violate the public trust.”

Unlawful use of federal VA property that benefited non-Veteran entities instead of providing supportive healthcare and housing for disabled and homeless Veterans
As we know, President Barack Obama and General Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), have made bold claims that they will end Veteran homeless by next year.

On June 8, 2011, one year after U.S. Attorney Birotte claimed that he would bring justice against public employees who violate the public trust, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against public employees Donna Beiter, executive director of the Los Angeles VA, and her boss, General Eric K. Shinseki, for the unlawful use of federal VA property that benefited non-Veteran entities instead of providing supportive healthcare and housing for disabled and homeless Veterans.

But instead of investigating Ms. Beiter and General Shinseki on behalf of homeless Veterans, Mr. Birotte and his large staff of deputy U.S. Attorneys aggressively fought the lawsuit.

However, on August 29, 2013, Mr. Birotte and his team of Deputy Attorneys lost as U.S. District Judge S. James Otero entered a Federal Judgment against Defendants Beiter and Shinseki for engaging in nine separate real estate deals that were adjudicated as “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”

Instead of bringing justice to these public employees who violated their public trust, U.S. Attorney Birotte continues to violate his own public trust and personal promise as he and his fellow U.S. Attorneys have Appealed the Federal Judgment at the costly expense of the American taxpayer and the prolonged misery and suffering of disabled and destitute Veterans who need immediate housing and care.

On the other hand, Mr. Birotte and FBI Agents have spent that past couple years investigating and recently indicting a California State Senator for allegedly taking $100,000 in bribes and kick-backs.

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte (L) and FBI Assistant Director Bill Lewis (R) speak at a news conference February 21, 2014, in Los Angeles. These Federal law enforcement authorities announced multiple charges of bribery and cover-up against California State Senator Ron Calderon.

What State Senator Calderon is alleged to have done is small-time compared to the billions-of-dollars of Federal VA property that was unlawfully transacted with sweetheart land deals, including a “rent free” agreement with a wealthy homeowner group to build a public park on Veterans property, which is endorsed by U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. 

U.S. Senator Feinstein used the power of her own public trust to write a letter to former VA Secretary Nicholson on behalf of the homeowner group directing him that a long-term “sharing agreement” between the VA and the homeowner group must be approved. Three months later the VA entered into a 30-year “rent free” agreement with the homeowner group to build a public community park on Veterans VA property, in complete violation of Federal law.

While State Senator Calderon violated his own public trust with bribery and kick-back scams, he never gave away any Federal VA land or forced one disabled Veteran to become homeless like what transpired at the largest VA in the nation and eventually led Los Angeles to be our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans.

Since the U.S. Attorneys will not investigate the biggest land-fraud scandal in American history compounded by heinous Human Rights Violations, this is to once again request Congressional, FBI and Federal Grand Jury Investigations into this unconscionable land swindle of incomparable measure and devastation.

This is also to request immediate investigations by The Human Rights Council of the United Nations, The Hague’s International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, The Vatican, et al., against the United States Government for heinous crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated against our war-injured Veterans who have defended freedom around the world and are now impoverished and forced to live homeless and hungry in despicable and inhumane conditions.

The Los Angeles DOJ has shamefully failed to defend our disabled and needy Veterans, but instead aggressively fights the lawsuit that produced a Federal Judgment against the VA Secretary and his Los Angeles director for unlawful use of Veterans property.

Vietnam Veterans of America is a major Plaintiff in the lawsuit and by the VA’s own admission, nearly half (47%) of today’s homeless Veterans are from the Vietnam War era, which ended nearly 40 years ago.

By vigorously fighting this lawsuit, U.S. Attorney Birotte prolongs this national disgrace and nullifies President Obama’s own proclamation:

“One of the most painful chapters in our history was Vietnam—most particularly, how we treated our troops who served there.  You were often blamed for a war you didn’t start, when you should have been commended for serving your country with valor. You were sometimes blamed for misdeeds of a few, when the honorable service of the many should have been praised.  You came home and sometimes were denigrated, when you should have been celebrated.  It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened.  And that’s why here today we resolve that it will not happen again.” President Obama - Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. on May 28, 2012

Correspondingly, if President Obama is serious about his promise to Vietnam War Veterans and to end Veteran homelessness by next year, then he needs to make major changes in his Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and that means immediately replacing Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki and his Los Angeles VA director Donna Beiter.

It’s important to point out that Henry Waxman was a Vietnam War protestor.  In 1974, shortly before the fall of Saigon that ended the War, he was elected to the public trust as a U.S. Representative that included our nation’s largest VA within his Congressional District.

Thus, it’s no surprise that during nearly four decades of public trust, Henry Waxman never appropriated a single dollar for a single blanket for a single homeless Veteran while Los Angeles became our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans.

Did I mention that Congressman Waxman and Senator Feinstein support a rent-free public park on a billion-dollar parcel of Veterans property that was adjudicated in Federal Court to be “unauthorized by law and therefore void?”

Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, needs to begin immediate investigations into all this crime, corruption and cover up under Henry Waxman’s 40-year entrusted “watch” at the painful expense of tens of thousands of war-injured and impoverished Veterans.

Hopefully, these neglected Veterans will finally get some poetic justice since Henry Waxman was a former Chairman of the powerful Oversight Committee even though he never once investigated all this crime and corruption in his own Congressional District that was being conveniently covered up.

Hopefully true American justice will finally replace our U.S. Government’s injustice against our deprived Veterans.

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Obama Insults Homeless Veterans

Obama Insults Homeless Veterans with Judgeship Nomination

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte

Obama Insults Homeless Veterans with Judgeship Nomination

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By Robert L. Rosebrock 

President Barack Obama continues to insult and denigrate America’s disabled and homeless Military Veterans as he has nominated U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte for a Federal Judgeship in Los Angeles.

Incredulously, Mr. Birotte fought the ACLU lawsuit filed against the VA on behalf of disabled homeless Veterans.

With poetic justice, Mr. Birotte got his butt kicked by a stellar legal team as U.S. District Judge S. James Otero entered a Federal Judgment against Birotte’s Defendants, VA Secretary Shinseki and LA VA director Donna Beiter, for engaging in VA real estate dealings that are “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”

Now, President Obama is “rewarding” Andre Birotte for his fighting the ACLU lawsuit and homeless Veterans with his nomination for a Federal Judgeship.

Andre Birotte

Obama nominates US Attorney for Federal Judgeship in Los Angeles

Adding insult to injury in this shameful nomination, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein recommended Mr. Birotte’s name to the President for this lifetime appointment, which has to be confirmed by the United States Senate.

One of the nine illegal “sharing agreements” the VA has with non-Veteran entities is Veterans Park Conservancy, a wealthy homeowner group in Brentwood. 

Senator Feinstein and Congressman Henry Waxman are major supporters of this infamous operative that has a 30-year rent-free agreement to build a public park on a billion-dollar 16-acre parcel of Veterans property.

The agreement is “unauthorized by law” and in 2007, Senator Feinstein aided and abetted in getting this illegal agreement approved on behalf of the wealthy and elitist homeowner group.

Fellow Americans, on behalf of our disabled and homeless Veterans who have been illegally exiled from these sacred grounds at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home, we must speak up and demand that President Obama drop this insulting and shameful nomination of Andre Birotte for a Federal Judgeship.

In addition, President Obama must demand that U.S. Attorney Birotte drop his disgraceful Appeal against the Federal Judgment so that we can move forward and build a new and modern Veterans Home on these sacred grounds and “Bring Our Homeless Veterans HOME.”

The Injustice of the Department of Justice
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Poverty at a Glance

Poverty at a Glance,
 There is a diversity of faces and voices that define people that are currently living in poverty. If you seen them on the street would you know them? Who are these unfortunate people? Do you think you could point them out? Where do they come from? While some impoverished people are apparent -many are hidden and walk amongst us everyday, fighting to survive, playing the societal game, and hoping to rise up and leave behind a life of poverty and despair. The impoverished is made up of people from all aspects of life with differences in age, race, color, and ethnicity. This group also includes fallen power elitists; impoverished by greed or over consumption of addiction. The issues of poverty and homelessness go hand and hand. The two are so closely intertwined that we often fail to see that they are in reality one problem, and that the homeless, excluding the handicapped, the aged, and the mentally ill, is merely the most severe expression of it. Charity and handouts do not solve the problems, although they often soften the blow. The impoverished continue to fight their battle to survive, and hope, and pray that the next day will be better then the last. When we speak of the poor, we speak as though they are an unchanging and faceless group to be pity despised or feared. To talk of the "poverty problem" is to talk of some depersonalized permanent fixture on the U.S. landscape. The poverty is people, it's people standing in welfare lines, it's people standing in soup kitchen lines and unemployment lines. It's people living in rat-infested projects and people sleeping on the streets. It's people struggling to acquire things that the rest of society takes for granted. It's people coming up short in their quest for the American Dream. It's 13% of the American population that came up short of the American dream in 1999 (U.S. Census Bureau, 1999). However, what truly defines poverty? Is it a lack of money, or lack of food or even lack of proper hygiene? Although these characteristics alone or combined can often define people living in poverty, the truth is that these are only perceptions. To live in poverty means that your income falls below the official poverty line for a given family size. In a broader sense, the living conditions of the poor are difficult to measure, both because annual cash income is only one factor related to living conditions, and because the poor are quite heterogeneous (Federman, Garner & Short, 1997). The perceptions or "myths" that the population has about poverty are distinguished by a "high degree of constancy" across generations and by an "equally pronounced capacity for evolution", adapting to changes in knowledge and social circumstance (Blumenburg, 1995 pp.34). Society buying into these myths and some impoverished adhering to the myths feed the fuel for society's beliefs and perceptions. So why is there a need to change society's view of those living in poverty? The truth is that these perceptions and myths aren't just generalizations about the mass of impoverished because most of them "fit" the mold. While the belief is that the impoverished are homeless, the fact is that 48% own their own homes, compared to 78% of those not living in poverty. Typically, these home are three-bedroom houses with one-and-one-half baths. The average values of these homes are $65,000 (Goldman 1999). Not only does a good percentage of the impoverished own their own home; they also own the amenities to go along with it. Ninety-two percent of the impoverished own a color television, with nearly half of that population owning two televisions (Bartlett, 1998). Three quarters of the population of those living in poverty have VCR's, microwaves, telephones and even a car in the driveway (Bracey, 1997). Their homes are in good repair and are not overcrowded. Moreover, by their own report, the poor are not hungry -and even have sufficient funds to meet all essential needs (Susser, 1997). While life is not opulent, it is far from what the popular consensus understands by poverty. Poverty is the inability to secure for onesself the benefits of 'civilization': necessities, comforts, pleasures. What are the causes of this 'shortage'? What was formerly done by human hands is now done by machines (technology). These machines are owned by the minority (the rich) and are worked by the majority (the poor) for the benefit of the minority (the rich). The minority also own the land. The majority must pay the minority for the 'privilege' of being permitted to live in the place of their birth. Generally, the majority works hard and lives in poverty so that the minority may live lives of luxury without working. Poverty is caused by Private Monopoly; landlordism, employerism, ownership. Until recently, poverty has never been simply the existence of poor people. It was that, combined with a set of understandings about how poor people fit into the overall scheme of things, how economic destitution and its possible eradication relate to ideas about divine providence, human nature, and the ideal society (Russel 1997). These larger meanings inspired the non-poor to take an interest in poverty and to commit their selves to do something about it. Today, however, the idea of poverty has been reduced to a drab, predominantly economic issue. It is a social problem encompassing other social problems --drug abuse, violence, panhandling, children having children--inspire few visions of opportunities to enhance compassion, equality, and justice (Bracey, 1997; Goldman 1999; Russel 1997; Susser, 1997). Their vileness is stark, encouraging the rest of society to block out poverty and retreat to its own more comfortable and intelligible world. In these circumstances, increasing numbers of non-poor are opting for an alternative posture. Lacking confidence in and commitment to the proposition that poverty can be eliminated, we at least can order where we live, where our children go to school, what we read, and whom we encounter in such a way that we insulate ourselves from contacting or even thinking about the poor with their sordid lives and criminal tendencies. This is the coming solution to the problem of poverty: to make it go away by the cheap and simple expedient of refusing to acknowledge it (Bracey, 1997; Goldman 1999; Susser, 1997). The impoverished meaning of poverty, and the resulting indifference toward it, enables and encourages politicians to join the rest of us in turning our backs on the poor. The structure of our society is not condolent to helping those in poverty or to improve their situation (Bartlett 1998; Gibbs 1995; Goldman 1999; Susser, 1997). While the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it seems that if you bend down to help someone up, there is someone else there to kick you down. Poverty is a disease of "The Money (Profit) System" (Susser, 1997). The smallest group "the rich " does little or nothing and enjoys the abundance of things made by the largest group - "the poor "- who live lives of semi-starvation and misery. The newspapers (just one of many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the status quo) are full of accounts of 'crimes' committed by the impoverished ('theft of trade' mainly). When people in mainstream America think of violence, they also think of poverty: the deviant, defiant, dangerous "underclass" or "undeserving poor" (Federman, Garner & Short, 1997). Such stereotypes contain a grain of truth amid their untruths; the typical American stereotype of an impoverished person is one that is marked by numerous defiant behaviors. Though often seen as drug using, welfare abusing, baby making, jobless minorities, this is rarely the case. While the myth is that the vast majority of the poor are blacks and Hispanics, the fact is that forty-eight percent of the poor are white, 27% are African Americans, and 22% are Hispanics (Bracey, 1997). Another common belief is that most people are poor because they do not want to work, but, facts show that 7.5 million poor adults work at least 27 weeks out of the year (Hale, 1999). What also must be taken into consideration is that 60% of the poor in the U.S. were not able to work due to their age (to young or to old), or due to disability. This can further be broken down as: 40% were to young 10% were over 65 with the remaining 10% as disabled (Federman, Garner, & Short, 1996). A myth held by many is that most poor get welfare so they aren't really suffering and once they are on welfare they stay on for long periods of time and make no effort to improve the situation. However, most poor citizens do not receive aid from the government, either because they are not eligible, not willing to apply, or do not know that they are eligible. For those families receiving welfare most did not receive aid for more than two years at a time (Thomas, 1997). It is believed by many that: "Welfare mothers are promiscuous. Most are morally weak and undeserving. If women do not want to be poor they should make different choices, and change their behavior. This is the myth of the "culture of single Motherhood"" (Thomas, 1997 pp. 351). Women on welfare are shown to have fewer births in comparison to the rest of the population (Hale 1999). Most welfare recipients are not teenage moms as the media hype and recent myth-driven welfare reforms tend to indicate. In fact, no more than 7% of the U.S. welfare families are headed by teen moms (Thomas, 1997). Another, strongly held myth about the poor is that they are heavy drug and alcohol abusers, statistics show that one out of every four people living in poverty is a substance abuser, many of these are included in the 25% who are mentally ill (Corcoran, 1995). However, the truth is that bad apples exist in all classes, from muggers among the poor to manufacturers of defective products among the wealthy. Either street crime is primarily caused by poverty and unemployment, or it is not; this need not be a matter of permanent debate. After all, the middle and upper classes do not mug. The crimes that the middle and upper class commit are rarely the crimes that are exploited day in and day out on television, newspapers or media in general. This is due to the fact that the upper classes control society's views, interests and biases. There is historical bias in the law that favors the power. The power of the powerful interest groups in society determines who and what are deviant by using the power of social control (Corcoran 1995). Social control is used to punish or neutralize organizations or individuals that deviate from society's norms, especially the poor (Corcoran 1995). However, the only real crime that the poor as a society commit is that they are unable to fill in the gap between the goal of success and the means to attain it. With the biases in hand, the only real and lasting solution to changing the relationship between the poor and the deviant is to radically transform society. The following is a personal journey to Gods Kitchen to learn more on how the poor and impoverished live: My journey to God's Kitchen was a true eye opening experience. I was surprised to see all the hungry people inside, surprised to see all the hungry people standing in line and surprised to see all the hungry people outside . . . and surprised to see that many of them look like you and I. While many people don't take a second look at the man on the street begging for change, I took a second look while I was at God's Kitchen. This person could be my neighbor, a co-worker or even a fellow churchgoer. I found it most ironic that in a place called God's Kitchen, you couldn't see the difference between the impoverished and your fellow man. The feeling that I got inside from helping these people far outweighed any joy or excitement that I ever received from a material object. From this event, I was able to close some of the biases that I had against the poor and impoverished and learned that we could share the same goals, beliefs and ideas. The real tragedy I feel is that mainstream America appears to be unwilling to give the poor a chance at decent full-time jobs. They need a means to fill the gaps in their search and many are not only willing, but also able to fill various available positions. Without these jobs, the lure of the streets will be too strong, and the incentive to move into seemingly secure and well-paying criminal
occupations too great.