GOVERNMENT MICRO-MANAGEMENT: Or, How I learned to Love the Nanny State.
by Camille Giglio
April 23, 2010
On 4/22/2010, I wrote an article entitled “ Obama Care may not be Socialistic, but Sen. Mark Leno’s SB 810 is.”
In that article I analyzed the bill pointing out its intended merger of the departments of Health, Education and Labor into one partnership in order to deliver a full slate of pre-planned community level family intrusive services to residents. It’s actually called building the sustainable community. It’s Hillary Clinton’s “It takes a village..” mantra and raises it a notch.
Today I have two real life examples of this program.
The San Jose Mercury News, 4/23/2010, page A3, has a brief article entitled: “ SCHOOL SCENE: Career fair for kindergartners.” The article states that “About 1,500 kindergartners attended their first career fair Thursday, visiting with cosmetologists, scientists, paramedics and other professionals at a ‘Kinder Caminata.”
At this four hour fair, children from San Jose’s Alum Rock School District “wore badges declaring their ambitions: firefighters, veterinarians rock stars, etc. and visited booths focusing on environmental themes, to honor Earth Day” and to foreshadow their future college goals. The majority of the children attending were Hispanic.
Notice the title of the fair - Kinder Caminata - a combination of german and Spanish. Taking a stab at translation I’d say it stands for child pathways. Career Pathways is the new name of the education game .
In yesterday’s article I spoke of the education/workforce development partnership contained in SB 810, in which schools would focus more on the goals of becoming training centers for future labor force entrants rather than academic centers of learning.
This is not just some cute little idea thought up by a kindergarten teacher to amuse her tiny students. There is an entire industry developing that claims it is important to begin developing the minds of babies, shaping their brains and thinking in infancy, to be the future leaders of the world. There are numerous proponents and opponents of this re-wiring of the brain, so to speak. Rob Reiner with his “I’m Your Child” campaign has provided the greatest promotion of this way of thinking. This is the major motivation driving the movement to get government funded pre-k programs for 3 and 4 year olds. They would really like to have your kids by the time they are potty-trained. To see the whole program click on www.brillkids.com.
The next article was published in the Monterey Herald, 4,23,2010, and titled: Community health plan spells out goals, priorities.” It is written by Jim Johnson of the Herald Salinas Bureau. Here are the first three paragraphs:
“A community-authored plan aimed at improving
health and safety in East Salinas is in place, and
backers are already working on a management
structure and putting the plan into action.
The plan is part of a 10-year, multimillion-dollar
initiative backed by the nonprofit California
Endowment. It is contained in a 29-page report that
lists priorities, strategies and a blueprint for
promoting what organizers call "sustainable change"
in the community.
The document is the result of nine months of work
by more than 400 community members and
organizations after the endowment’s selection of
East Salinas as one of 14 low-income communities
in the state invited to participate in the initiative.
The endowment, which formally accepted the plan
earlier this month, is expected to provide as much
as $10 million for the local effort.”
To read the whole thing go to: http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_14943653.
The article reports that three community organizations have been selected to “host” this community changing mega-nanny control plan (basically, direct the lives of this unsuspecting community. The community, non-profit groups are the Alisal Healthy Start Family Resource Center (early childhood), The Action Council of Monterey County, www.actioncouncil.org (community activists for women and girls) and Second Chance (anti-gang intervention. Probably early release youth offenders).
The goals, as stated in the article, are: 1. Children and families safe from violence in their homes and neighborhoods. What this means is home visitation programs and mandated training sessions. 2. Health and Family-focused human services focused on prevention. This is where Planned Parenthood and it’s pregnancy prevention, abortion and family planning agenda comes in. 3. All Children have health coverage. This is enrolling them in the government Healthy Families and or Medi-Cal programs which are little more than family planning programs. 4. Families will be assigned to a “health home.” This is where the contract or partnership between the health department and the individual comes in. A health home means that one organization will be assigned to oversee all aspects of personal physical, mental and emotional development. Children entering these programs are viewed as independent contractors for their own services. This is where Senator Lelend Yee’s efforts towards using the schools as mental health counseling and evaluation centers for all students comes into play. 5. These organizations will be charged to oversee the “economic welfare of residents.” “Efforts must see to the economic inequities that exist in this community.” This is the Workforce Development aspect of the overall SB 810 and Obama Health Care agenda. The article finishes up by declaring that these “gross economic inequities” and “significant levels of distrust” between residents and law enforcement are obstacles which must be overcome in order to bring about a “systems change” in community life.
And, not to be overlooked is the arrogance of a statewide, non-profit Think Tank full of intellectuals being allowed to decide that there are certain counties and communities of residents in need of their special protection and nurturing.
The residents of East Salinas are not going to be the ones to profit in the long run. It is the non-profit employees who will have well paying jobs and the freedom to develop as they see fit, not the poor unsuspecting residents who believe that America is the home of the free.
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