http://www.cracked.com/article_18884_the-7-most-horrifying-cost-cutting-measures-all-time.html
can you copy and paste some of them? its blocked.
I’ll do the first one, the Child “Protective” Services
sources, :
http://www.wlky.com/r/14596226/detail.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S36rozABiZk
A little from the article on cracked.com:
Everyone is thankful for Child Protective Services, which takes “let’s think about the children” as an organizational slogan. But when a senator from Georgia admits that the organization tears families apart to hurriedly adopt children off for huge wads of cash, well, that’s when CPS starts to look less like a government agency and more like a human trafficking ring.
… The problem seems to lie with laws like the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. According to it, for each child adopted into a foster family, the responsible state receives $4,000 to $6,000, with an additional $20 million bonus if it exceeds the average number of adoptions from previous years…
… the policy also encourages CPS to make an increasingly liberal interpretation of the term “rescue.” Consider that, a few years ago, CPS employee Pat Moore was fired for refusing to put a child in a foster home simply because everyone in the foster family had a felony conviction, and the family occasionally hired a convicted sex offender to babysit…
The situation is so bizarre that CPS whistleblowers have even reported foster parents putting in orders for other people’s children, at which point the organization will reportedly investigate the shit out of that family until they hear someone use a cuss word, and then it’s hello, new parents.
If you still don’t buy the mob analogy, consider this: When Vanessa Shanks’ child was taken away and she fought the decision in court, CPS responded rationally by taking away children of her relatives, and after Shanks finally won in court, they took away her attorney’s children…