I will surely make people mad somewhere by contrasting the county’s approach to domestic violence to its Juvenile Crime Prevention plan. The county submitted a request to the state for $508,064. To be eligible, the county must show that recipient organizations have bylaws, diversity, and a whole bunch of other bureaucratic nonsense. The programs will help if they open doors for kids to connect with inspirational leaders.
What stinks is the concept of having the state nurturing children. Sure, the state should stop crime, but doing so by cutting out paper dolls with kids should not be a proper role of government. I just like the old-fashioned idea of people doing the nurturing and the state removing dangers from society. If the state has to nurture, then it must do so in a politically-correct way, which leads to stuff like value-neutrality and that state described with the adjective they used with communism. All that runs contrary to what I read about recovery. Numbers justify the bureaucracy, but people have to fill the big empty with something the state isn’t allowed to offer.
