Doublespeak of your government

Wow! Kind of a dry week as opposed to my prior ones with blogging.

I'm still wondering if last week's statement over the potential of a 'cargo container' community by Diane Gilbert of the ESHC was fluff or actually being considered as possible.

What I do know is there's still families in this county who're living in a hotel room not suitable for even two people to stay overnight in. I see regularly these parents taking their children to school by City Bus, rather than having their children picked up and transported...which is Federally protected.

I see parents that are afraid of being identified as 'unfit', fearful of having being reported to Children and Family Services and losing their children.

I see parents who have seen other parents reported for alledged abuse, neglect, drug use...and those children taken immediately into State Custody, based on a service provider's statement. My wife has also heard a Supervisor of these investigators state openly that a trend shows these reports are higher with some providers when compared to their peer agencies.

I see the McKinny-Vento Act state one thing, while what's practice is another. I remember when nobody would post homeless student's rights, except for me...on my family's room door in a shelter. I have seen excuses and arguments made why children have to walk past needles, single homeless men, and dangerous traffic patterns daily...and it's still accepted to this day.

And now there's legal wording trying to make Federal Law now that states people 'doubling up' with family, of people 'couch surfing' with friends, of a number of things identified in the McKinney-Vento Act as 'litmus tests' to determine eligibility of students to receive services...all of those people WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED HOMELESS.

Baloney. We'll end up with one law saying "You can't count them", and another that states "They're countable". But people say I'm a whiner.

The hilarious thing? If I were to be asked to speak on these issues to Congress, it wouldn't help any homeless people. It'd help people that make a living off them.

And that's wrong.

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