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Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today

The following was written by Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum – 1988

Many of the writers I present may have already passed. The organizations they represented may be defunct.

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Welfare programs tend to discourage the formation of families by making a bread winner spouse/father unnecessary. His function is replaced by a guaranteed tax paid income that carries no responsibilities or duties. It has been obvious for some years that the welfare system is a major cause of the breakdown of the family structure among the people who receive those taxpayer-paid benefits.

What is news is the role played by the Legal Services Corp. The LSC was created in 1974 as an agency to provide legal services to individual poor people unable to afford a lawyer. A new booklet published by LSC called “Legal Services Corp. vs. the Family” paints a depressing picture of how tax-funded lawyers have adversely reshaped family law by initiating and litigating class-action suits.

In their first foray into federal courts (with their buddies in black robes), LSC lawyers brought test cases in which courts in 1968 knocked out the regulations of 19 states that denied Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits to a woman who cohabitated with a man, a law designed to discourage illegitimacy and to foster familial values.

In 1973, LSC lawyers brought a test case which knocked out laws that excluded illegitimate children from benefits, and the precedent of that court decision pre-empted attempts by the states to develop programs that favor traditional families. (So much for State’s Rights)

Next the LSC lawyers went after what is called “deeming regulations,” the various laws which stated that the income of members of a family were “deemed” to be available to the entire household. The congressional intent of these regulations was to eliminate duplicate benefits and to reinforce the family as a cooperative, self-supporting unit, based on the commonsense concept that family members share with each other.

LSC lawyers filed more than 30 challenges to these laws, particularly attacking “deeming” regulations that involve siblings and grand parents. (liberals hard at work undermining American way of life) Each of these LSC suits is an attempt to get an independent source of income for pregnant teen-age girls without requiring them to live with their parents and without requiring parents to share in the support of their minor daughters.

LSC lawyers challenged the policy of restricting food stamps to traditional households, and succeeded in getting the Supreme Court to throw out a legislative provision that favored families over non-familial groups. LSC litigated to invalidate the section of the Food Stamp Act that distinguished between family households and households composed of unrelated individuals.

In visiting supermarkets I leave trembling with resentment towards government because of the multi-billions in corruption in this program. I take my hard-earned money and pay the cost of groceries while others with carts full of groceries pay with welfare credit cards. They leave the store and get in a brand new pickup truck or SUV. At least once I witnessed a woman paying with the card and her man paying for liquor with a $100 bill. I don’t blame this dishonesty, many come from countries where this is a way of life. I blame this rotten government. Just imagine what we could do with those billions by eliminating this gigantic fraud and waste by weeding out moochers.

From the beginning, LSC lawyers have given a high priority to getting divorces. The evidence shows that LSC lawyers encourage divorce as an alternative to resolving domestic problems, since divorce opens up the availability of immediate welfare payments…and more work for lawyers.

LSC training materials advised their lawyers, when arranging divorce agreements, to sign an agreement absolving the absent parent from paying child support. In case after case, LSC lawyers tried to relieve parents of their obligation to support their children so that the children could be supported by welfare payments.

As Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote for the U.S. Supreme Court in one of the cases brought by LSC lawyers, “Our jurisprudence historically has reflected Western civilization’s concepts of the family unit with broad parental authority over minor children.”

But LSC lawyers have been in the forefront of litigation against parental consent laws, particularly in the area of abortion and contraceptives. Although parental consent is required for every other medical procedure performed for a minor, LSC lawyers have argued in court that parental consent “violates a pregnant minor’s right of privacy, which includes the right to decide to terminate a pregnancy by abortion.”

LSC lawyers argue in court that minors’ constitutional right to privacy includes engaging in voluntary sex, even under the age of 14. LSC lawyers have even participated in cases on behalf of abortion clinics (hardly indigent clients) seeking to prohibit demonstrations, picketing or counseling nearby.

Despite a clear prohibition in the statute, LSC lawyers have been active in most of the legal challenges to state and federal abortion regulations. LSC lawyers tried to knock out laws prohibiting the funding of abortions except those necessary to save the life of the mother and argued in court that indigent women should be able to have an unlimited number of abortions at public expense…how about telling “indigent women” to keep their pants on.

The result of this vast network of LSC litigation is that traditional family law has been largely changed to relieve family members from financial responsibility for each other, so that welfare programs replace both parent and spouse.

The result has been to undermine the stability of the family as a self-reliant, cooperating unit, bound by duty and responsibility, and replace it with individuals (a large percentage of whom are minors) who have little hope of ever escaping dependency on welfare payments because they have been taught not to help each other…end of article

Articles such as this were never seen in the mainstream newspapers. The system was undermining the family for dependency and for the Democratic Party voter rolls. Even today, the communists in Congress (Democrats) keep promising the moon, and still, the ignorant fall for it. And so it is, with much crucial information omitted by the control press just as years in the past. Thank God for talk radio, blogs and the Internet.

Earlier I wrote about the government not having jurisdiction over illegal immigrants because of being citizens of other countries. The 14^th Amendment makes it clear, to me anyway. What do you think?

AMENDMENT XIV (civil rights)

Section 1. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

It is this part “nor deny to any person” the communists in our society use to bullshit the people that it includes any person in our country. If this is used to twist the meaning of the 14^th what about the word jurisdiction – does the U.S. government have jurisdiction over illegal immigrant citizens of other countries??- I don’t think so.

I don’t believe the intent was to include everyone. When the 14^th was legislated and later ratified in 1868 I don’t think Congress foresaw the kinds of people who would misinterpret and mislead Americans so blatantly in the future. This is why our Founding Fathers gave us the 9^th and 10^th Amendments – the right of the people and States to decide things, correct misdeeds or improve amendments for the better. The rotten government does whatever they want and the hell with your U.S. Constitution. How clearly, one must now understand the importance of the type of people who are appointed to the judiciary, especially to the Supreme Court. There are too many liberals, communists, socialists and now “progressives” in the judiciary – ditto for academia.

States are beginning to pay attention to the 9^th and 10^th Amendments. Hopefully, the interest will gain momentum and any thing criminals do in Congress, we shall correct. We could take it a step further. Why not elect people who will go after those in Congress who have committed crimes? Why should they retire on our dime after the damage they have caused? We should make ourselves understood that we are the Kings and Queens in this country and they ARE SERVANTS! Throw out the incumbent democrats across our land and throw out those in the GOP that cross the aisle too many times to deal with their “esteemed colleagues.”

“I AM SORRY I HAVE ONLY ONE BAT TO SWING FOR MY COUNTRY!”

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