[GOP Poet]

Totally whacked!

[beaversmom]

We are all going to be in foster care.

[calcowgirl]

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/1684956.html

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a statement Monday supporting the concept, saying he is committed to a bipartisan solution that ensures foster youth are “provided with the tools needed to succeed at life.”

AB 12 is an attempt to boost services by making the state eligible for about $70 million in new federal funds for foster programs.

The legislation is being fine-tuned and no public hearing has been held. The goal is to offer housing subsidies and other assistance for the 4,500 foster teens who leave the system each year in their late teens.

No formal opposition to AB 12 has surfaced, Beall said. Republican Assemblymen Danny Gilmore of Hanford and Hanford and Nathan Fletcher of San Diego attended the news conference.

[eclecticEel]

This is only the beginning; soon enough we’ll all be wards of the state.

[tcrlaf]

Hell...
Why not 25? or 30?

In fact, why not take care of them THE REST OF THIER LIVES?

[naturalman1975]

I was orphaned just before my tenth birthday. I wound up in the care of my father's old school (the school has a policy going back to the First World War of looking after the sons of ex-pupils when they need to - the Headmaster was my legal guardian, but raising me was very much a group effort on the part of a number of people).

By 16, I was in the Navy training to be an officer. I was commissioned at nineteen and by all normal standards was an adult. But I was still a teenager and I still needed the emotional support a lot of teens need at times. People kept an eye on me in some ways until I was at least twenty one, though they left me to do what I needed as well.

Lots of kids aren't quite ready at 18 to be complete adults, whatever the law says. Kids who are in foster care didn't do anything to deserve to have harder lives and just washing your hands of them at that point as I saw happen to so many other kids who weren't as lucky as me is heaping more problems on them.

Yes, to an extent, it is about money - but even when foster parents want to continue given their former foster child support, and are willing to do that without money, a lot of the kids themselves have a real problem being a drain on their foster families - even if the parents don't worry, the kids do. How would you feel knowing you're a financial drain on people who've already given you so much? A lot of these kids already have a lowered sense of self worth - they need help and they need to know those people helping them are being helped.

[Fresh Wind]

Beall said the state had a "moral" duty to help the foster kids. "They're our responsibility and if we're going to be responsible parents, we shouldn't send them out on the streets at age 18 because literally they'll be on the streets."

So now they'll be literally out on the streets at age 21 with no more idea of how live than they did at 18. It's like the unemployed person who doesn't even start looking for a job until the unemployment checks run out.

[wac3rd]

Nanny State Farm League!

Wow, we keep Johnny in government control for over 25% of his expected natural life...

Of course Dems favor this, more tax money spend on dependents = VOTES.

The feigned “compassion” is merely a way of creating dependence and a voting block that votes for their own personal upkeep vs. who wil govern least.

Marx would be proud. This is insanity.

[tflabo]

Has the Sacramento State House become an asylum for the insane? Billion$ in Arrear$ and these cretins pushing for a nanny state full speed. Creating government dependents for a lifetime. Arnold Atlas not shrugging anymore either!