CPR
Center for Parental
Responsibility
Website: cpr-mn.org Email: info@cpr-mn.org
April 15, 2004
Legislative Education Notice (9th
in SERIES)
Dear
_______________________________ RE: BILL # HF 1031/SF 974
VOTE
YES for Nonpartisan Welfare Reform:
Clarify
Title IV-D Eligibility Standards (currently no eligibility exits)
Reminder: Misleading information & erroneous analysis will distort
perspective!!
How something meant for such great good
could end up destroying the very people it was meant to help.
92 years ago –
A little
bad information can make you go down in history!
QUESTION: Are you receiving flawed information from the DHS staff that limits your ability as a
legislator to make the right decisions for the families, children, and
taxpayers of
QUESTION: Does it appear that everything is smooth
sailing with Title IV-D, when it’s really NOT?
PROBLEM:
Misapplication of Minnesota
family laws which exceed federal requirements are unnecessarily Costing Minnesota
Taxpayers Millions, due to an over-reach
of authority by the State DHS and UNWARRANTED
INTRUSION by the County Title IV-D agency that fuels prejudice, animosity,
and further havoc on the family. Title IV-D is another “pork barrel” project to
expand state government, that is being mischaracterized as a necessary mandate and erroneously camouflaged
as “for the children.”
REALITY CHECK:
The Title IV-D program
benefits the bureaucrats and deprives
the children. Conflict escalates; Families
are damaged; & Children suffer under current Title IV-D policy. Society
loses.
Non-Partisan SOLUTION:
You’re the captain of
the ship – i.e. the state budget! Take
a stand – no longer waste precious program dollars by rearranging the deck
chairs. Instead, support a long term
solution - will you support Title IV-D
welfare reform?
An
opportunity missed; the time has run out:
AGAIN this session,
the Minnesota Legislature decided (by indecision)
that a $100 million a year
savings is
not worth exploring!?
If you didn’t have
time last year to save $100 million;
If you didn’t have
time this year to save $100 million;
Will NEXT year be a
better time?
Citizen
Request: Be a Better Steward of Our Money!
|
Corporate
GREED (at the
expense of stakeholders) -or- Government
Agency GREED (at the
expense of taxpayers and children) What’s the Difference?! |
|
Corporate Greed
“Prosecutors accuse Tyco executives of stealing $170 million from the company by abusing loan programs.”
SOURCE: “Drama
Fuels Tyco Trial,” St. Paul Pioneer Press,
Government Agency Greed
“Citizens allege DHS is plundering $500 million from
private individuals in order to abuse federal loan programs and gain increased
funding, resulting in taxpayer fraud.” SOURCE: CPR Press Release, February 2004
RESULT: State Budget
Problem
We
have a serious budget problem. Does the
SOURCE: “Higher
Office,”
THE CHOICE IS YOURS. Voters are watching.
Do you have the courage to ask the right questions? Help the boat stay afloat – learn about Title IV-D reform NOW! Call
CPR to find out more information how YOU can:
ü
support
positive Title IV-D welfare reform to help heal & unite fractured families,
ü
eliminate
unnecessary spending and help reduce the budget deficit,
ü
appropriate
money to social programs in jeopardy and preserve public aid for the truly needy
and vulnerable,
ü
discontinue welfare services to affluent people
living in ½ million dollar homes, with upper middle-class incomes.
Continuing
a welfare service program with NO means testing is pure foolishness. Providing
subsidies to the rich defies logic. The eligibility bill will NOT affect outcomes
for individual cases, it will prevent public money
from being spent for private collections. Aggrieved parties have private
options available to seek remedy.
Name:_________________________________(print)
____________________________________(signature)
Address:___________________________________ City:
Phone
Number: ____________________________ Email:
____________________________
From A Constituent and/or Interested Citizen Involved in Community
Solutions