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Price Of Success In Iraq Is Destorying Our Children

February 15, 2007 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

How can success in Iraq be more important than child safety right here in America? How can a first lady who relishes taking pictures with children allow her husband to preside over a Government that has abandoned American children so blatantly? Child Protective Services organizations throughout the United States are dealing with budget crunches and lesser funds issues because federal funding has all but dried up for federal child programs in America. With unemployment on the rise the protective services programs throughout America have become overwhelmed. The same Government presiding over all of the job losses causing many families to be split apart are also the same members of the Government abandoning the children affected by the job losses their poor leadership has created. The United States Government has overspent so much in Iraq that they are actually having to pull from other areas of federal funding, such as the Protective Services areas and the Departments of Human Services, to pay for shortfalls of the Iraq War. The United States Government is abandoning its responsibility to the homeless children and the foster children of America so that they can continue their senseless and useless war in Iraq. Child Services throughout America have plans to take care of children in need but they don’t have the money. Conversely, the War mongers banging in Washington have all the money and no intelligent plans. I heard a guy yesterday saying that his T-Shirt, which displayed a saying, “Kill Em’ All and Let God Sort Them Out.”, was a more credible plan than Washington has for winning the war in Iraq. Could this idiot be more right than our paid politicians?

Look around and the devastation of the Iraq War is displayed. Rather than debate American issues our politicians spend days and weeks cooking up a useless non-binding resolution designed to prove a point to the President that he cannot do as he pleases in Iraq. Meanwhile, over 100 children a day are living in abusive situations where they are exposed to physical and sexual abuse because the proud and caring social workers of our Human Services programs are spread to thin to take care of them in a safe and proper fashion. Even the most caring of workers can only physically do so much in a day. If we took a few billion back from Iraq and put it where it belongs we would have a much better child situation in America. We can’t blame the children, they are victims of circumstance. It is hard to blame families because most abuse is a result of one or both parents losing their jobs and acting out as a result of their stressful situations. We cannot blame the social workers; they are doing all they can with what they have. We have to look at Washington and ask them why they are letting the poor innocent children suffer while dedicating so many resources to the war and rebuilding effort in Iraq.

Fight the war if it has to be fought but to keep starving American children while feeding foreigners abroad is traitorous. Go down to an orphanage, take the time to talk to a human services worker, ask them about the real devastation wiping out the children of our future because of the economic state the war in Ira has caused right here in America. In some counties there is an almost 2% rate of children being raised by an individual who is not a parent of the child. What type of devastation are we allowing to occur to the family unit in America while we stay so focused on Iraq?

Every child has a right to grow up in a safe and happy family environment. Regardless if the child is with a birth parent or a foster parent. However, when we drain the funds needed to properly maintain these organizations we are harming the innocent we always so publicly profess to want to defend. It’s time we got real on the issues the war in Iraq is causing and the devastation of this generation of children is probably the saddest legacy this current generation of political leaders will have. They should be ashamed of themselves for both abandoning America economically and morally. The children of our United States deserve better. Let’s pray some of the politicians pull their heads out of their asses and get things fixed right here in the United States.

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