Posted by aogSunday, 21 January 2007 at 06:02 TrackBack Ping URL

Government is people, too, not just a natural disaster

Via Instapundit is the story of a convicted murderer who is getting state aid intended for helping out foster kids leaving the foster care system. What was interesting to me is how, despite this being an investigatory article about an abuse of the state, no detail at all is provided about how, exactly, this decision was made within the state bureaocracy. Here is a typical quote —

The state ordered the Wayne County program support for Abraham, even though he was from Pontiac and was convicted in Oakland County.

It’s always “the state” or “the state Department of Human Services”. While it’s possible that the department is concealing the identity of the actual decision maker, the article contains no hint that the journalists made any attempt to find out. Given how the result seems to violate multiple state policies and regulations, wouldn’t the identity of who is making this happen be interesting to know? It’s like a Willey Horton story that doesn’t mention Dukkakis.