IMPORTANT INFORMATION

ALERT! SOCIAL REFORM IN

CALIFORNIA TURNS TO
SLAVERY

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a

more prefect Union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty
to our selves and our Posterity”.
As these famous ‘words’ known as the Preamble, have
long echoed in classrooms across the Nation, and more
in the hearts of Americans; today they serve as a
blueprint to understanding what our Forefathers desired
to be establish when writing the Constitution. The world
is forever changing, sudden change in Government can
be foreseen and unseen revolutionary, but gradual
change is what is called reform.
As a citizen of the United States, I believe it necessary to
push forward to insure our individual freedoms are not
violated, that our civil rights are protected, and a
guarantee that justice is for all Americans. Our
administration is forever evolving as social reform gives
birth to a stronger and more powerful Nation. The
Government Agencies and Departments that function
within each state are confined in jurisdiction and operate
under policy according to law and regulation.
Everybody around the Nation has been feeling the
crunch as the economy slowed down, but for California’s,
the financial hardship is compounded. After many years
of mismanagement by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger;
where over spending, unjust salary hikes, waste and
abuse, and broken promise to reduce the state's debt
has led to a crisis. The States debt had nearly tripled
during the seven years he had been governor.
Never in my life time have I heard more government
employees rally together to complain of unjust cutbacks.
The workers who get paid enough to form employment
unions and associations have funds to organize rallies
and have a trained speaker voice their demands to
improve their quality of life.
However, there is one group that does not have that
luxury. Those citizens cannot afford many things. They
live far below the poverty level and the cost of living.
They are in such financial despair they survive on what
is no more than humanitarian aid. These are California’s
Welfare Recipients and being the poorest of all groups
connected to the government for income has no voice. A
one parent family with one child can receive from the
California Welfare Department no more cash aid than
$533.00 a month, and two parent with child $720.00;
barely enough to pay for hygiene, toiletries, socks as
needed, school supplies, and CRV deposit for the drinks
they pay for with food stamps. This is not enough to pay
for an apartment; a week in a motel maybe. A roof over
their heads for the month is out of the question. They
stay in cold weather only shelters, and some are forced
to live in campgrounds, others live in illegal Hobo camps,
until caught and their kids are taken away. Right or
wrong the added expense is passed on to the tax payer.

The wrongs done to these silent victims were generated

by lies made by Governor Schwarzenegger and his
fictional Government cast? The broken promise made to
these citizens was Welfare Reform; in the first line of the
San Bernardino County Transitional Assistance
Department Employment Services Program Welfare to
Work Guidebook, it states, “You have probably heard or
read about the reduced funding--” knowing that there
has been cutbacks is not the issue, why is the Program
allowed to continue. Reform is a word used when Policy
produces positive results comes by is the result. Non
participation will lead to being cut off cash aid
completely.
Everything cost money, including the construction and
design of the plan. To make changes to regulations cost,
if not just for the printing of forms, and reorganization.
The Welfare workers required training, and many other
changes cost the tax payer in their attempt to make a
failed program function, but is that reason to keep the
program going when it doesn’t work. What the problem
is the Program is hollow; it was never given the funding
to make it work. More waste lay in the false promises
advertised by Schwarzenegger himself; both in
brochures and handouts and on-line promotions. None of
those exist today, but the cost is being felt State wide.
Promises of how this Program would increase the quality
of life by participation was said over and over; all turned
out to be false. The Nation’s economy played a part and
perhaps not all blame fall on the Robocop, but if a horse
is dead don’t make people try to ride it. With cutbacks
slicing the amount of cash aid given, if by alone no
yearly cost of living increases, being on Welfare is a
nightmare. Unemployment is still climbing and the jobs
just aren’t there. If it is a matter of not looking for work
there is a reason, and I’ll explain below, but as for an
increased quality of life, it is not happening. There are
government sponsored employment plans, but one
Welfare Office could claim only 3 leading to jobs thus far
for this year. There is no subsidized private sector
employment, no subsidized public sector employment,
and all other job leads come from EDD, and what good is
a double agency work load at the cost of the tax payer.
All on-the job-training where you get a paycheck come
from other agencies, the Welfare department produces
zero, and very little if at all work experience can be
obtained from working at a Church. As for the rules to be
allowed to attend school, you must be already attending
prior to seeking aid. If these cross beams are not in
place, what support is holding the shell?
The only part of the Program that is being enforced is
Community Service. This is an unpaid training activity
that is mandatory and performed in the public or
nonprofit sector, which is no more than slave labor. The
Welfare recipients must work for free 32 hours a week if
one parent is in the home, and 35 for two. If the
participant refuses or some emergency comes up and
they have no proof their cash aid is cut off. The people
are seeking humanitarian aid as a last hope for survival.
To demand work at 34 cents an hour is slave labor and
violates a list of freedoms guaranteed Americans.
1.) AMENDMENT XIII, neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.
2.) Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.
We don’t have to raise taxes just collect them. Do the
math; a two parent family must work for free 35 hours a
week, multiply that by 52 weeks a year, and that by
however many people are on Welfare. The sum will be
astronomic, I’m sure. I would hope to be wrong and
financial recovery was possible under this program.
Another issue involves benefits given to workers; these
workers cannot collect “Earned income credit,” or claim
the grant as income. If this is the case, they do not work
for the grant, but just for the master.
These injustices violate many laws, but they many
questions as well; how do they expect a person to get a
paying job if working 35 hours a week for free? There is
no time to look for work. What hope is there for a future?
More importantly, just how do they plan to deal with the
problem in the future? Is there a future? Do they know
something the average citizen does not?

Not all actors are evil villains, nor government officials;

I’m no expert on the social dilemmas that face society,
but there must of been some intelligent people who sat
in a think tank some where in Government to determine
how long should it take for a person receiving Aid to get
their life together. Whoever it was, they came up with a
60 month limit. I don’t know about other States, but that
is the amount allowed in California. I think it an insult to
that think tank and Americans Nation wide, for a State to
impose a failed program that under minds the freedom
of every American. I think it is reasonably determined
that when the 60 month time limit runs out for these
people and the system cuts them off, we will have a big
problem. Forget I used the words “abusing them”, many
to feed their starving family will resort to crime, and that
certainly will cost us more. It is my opinion if
intervention for reform is not done immediately, the
Arnold Schwarzenegger cast will have constructed for
society, a weapon of mass destruction.

Written in Raw Ink for the people of the

State
By J.R.Hairabedian March 16, 2011