Thread: California's Children Punished for Their Parent's and State'

So I guess it's OK to punish American kids for their parents actions? Then I see NO problem with deporting illegal aliens who would be dream act eligible no?
What a completely screwed up logic these people have!

Here are some ways to draw in revenues CALI: Stop giving anything and everything to illegal aliens and their families! Cancel you nightmarish dream act, stop the welfare payouts to illegals, stop the freebies! Report illegal aliens for DEPORTATION! That'll save BILLIONS!

California's Children Punished for Their Parent's and State's Welfare Mistakes

By Phillip Warlove | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 3 hrs ago
COMMENTARY | California's cash-strapped government revealed a disturbing means of drawing in revenue: charging children for their parents' welfare debts.

The Associated Press reported Dec. 3 a longstanding illegal California practice of charging the children of ex-welfare recipients for unreturned overpayments.

Jamie Hartley of Riverside and Clarence Ayers of Fresno have filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court, hoping to stop the illegal and immoral practice.

California recouped $61.5 million in overpaid benefits this fiscal year with some coming from innocent children of welfare recipients.

Hartley, a student at Riverside Community College, was informed that her next income tax refund would be "intercepted" to repay $766 of overpaid welfare benefits.

In 2008, when Hartley was only 16, her family received the money in question during the three months of the summer after her brother turned 18 and graduated from high school.

Hartley's mother receives untouchable disability aid, and according to an illegal California practice, she must pay her mother's debts, endangering her ability to pay for college.

Rather than allow its youth to help reverse the state's woeful fiscal fortunes, California is allowing its agencies to circumvent the law to saddle them with debt before they become adults.

Ayers was notified his future welfare payments will be reduced by 10 percent until he pays back $2,846 of debt that his great granddaughter, Irene Lara, 14, inherited from her former caretakers. Authorities are charging Ayers for Irene, even though they don't know what caused the misallocation of funds due to the mysterious disappearance of Irene's case file.

Despite having no hand in either the distribution of the payment or the failure to return it, thousands of young Californians (1.1 million of the state's 1.4 million welfare recipients) are being forced to pay for their states' and parents' mistakes.

California law doesn't care who is to blame for the overpayments -- even in case of state error -- it simply pursues whoever it can to recoup the money.

Young Californians like Hartley and Lara are clueless to the debt hanging over them until they become adults and are informed that their incomes and futures will be compromised.

Lara was born in 1997 and the alleged overpayments occurred from 1996 to 1998 but still must pay a debt potentially from before she was born -- a debt that has become Ayers' headache simply for taking care of a family member.

The statute of limitations for criminal charges or lawsuits on these cases is four years, but the Department of Social Services is permitted to chase extremely old debts through administrative measures like cutting future distributions, automatic wage of tax return deductions.

With the school budget cuts that the Huffington Post reports are endangering its public education system, California is skirting the law to keep poor children from having a fair chance to escape poverty. If it hopes to ever escape its economic doldrums, California should do so without feasting on its own young.

Originally Posted by miguelina

Report illegal aliens for DEPORTATION! That'll save BILLIONS!

$25 Billion a year to be exact, this chart is from 05 I can't imagine the price going down!