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Sacramento CPS Racks Up Seventh Dead Child
Nannycrats Back and Fill as children’s bodies pile up in Sacramento County
Under fire for a string of seven recent deaths of children who had been known to Sacramento County Child Protective Services, county officials said they will conduct an independent review of the troubled agency. Children’s advocates have called for a stronger response, specifically a new investigation of the agency by the county grand jury.
The county’s Health and Human Services Department said an oversight committee that reports to the Board of Supervisors will handle the review. Not good enough say child advocates fearing a white wash and more dead children.
Earlier this month a 4-year old child who was the subject of a CPS case opened five weeks before was beaten to death, and authorities have charged the mother’s live-in boyfriend with murder. The case piled on top of six other deaths spawned a firestorm of criticism of CPS.
Meanwhile a legislator has introduced an anti-child spanking law that compared to seven dead children seem like classic hypocrisy or simply stupidity. The child was not spanked to death he was beaten to death while supposedly being protected by those county bureaucrats.
Of course there is no shortage of plan stupidity inside or outside the nannyocracy like the harebrained grandmother who put her month old granddaughter through an airport luggaged xraying machine
McCain Says End Gas Tax; Raise Child Deduction, And End Spending Increases.
John McCain wants the federal government to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. He also renewed his call for the United States to stop adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and thus lessen to some extent the worldwide demand for oil. Federal taxes are per gallon while many states put a sales tax on gasoline and diesel so the higher the price and higher the tax.
McCain also called for the Department of Education to act to strengthen the student loans program that is under stress as many lenders have been cutting back or eliminating loans. He also wants to raise the income tax exemption from $3,500 to $7,000 per child, and suspend for one year all increased spending by federal departments.
McCain called for these reforms on the event of the April 15th income tax filing deadline.