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Every stupid process in social services is driven by the NY Post and similar outlets.

Q: “Why did nobody notice the baby is sick?” A: Babies are weighed in every interaction, which is humiliating to parents.

Q: “Why didn’t you stop Sally from enrolling for benefits in 2 counties?” A: Fingerprint indigent beneficiaries, at their expense.

Q: “Why should people on drugs get welfare?” A: A family loses crucial benefits because mom smoked weed.

Bureaucracy builds walls out of process to remove individual agency. But politicians design programs to meet different goals, and social services law was no different.



> Babies are weighed in every interaction, which is humiliating to parents.

Why is this humiliating?


Every week, some random clerk can decide that your baby hasn’t gained enough weight, and therefore you are an unfit mother.


Yeah, my wife noted this. Puts a lot of pressure on mothers to overfeed their kids.




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