The Social Service System is Almost Completely Privatized - corporate welfare

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If you hate corporate welfare try this on for size. The state of Idaho has privatized social services since 1994 and the vast majority of human service workers or social workers are private sector workers. Most other states followed suit and privatized social services - The States perform supervision of private sector agencies who exploit workers and clients for cash rewards. I was a contract worker (and an employee) for a private sector agency at the same time - Its illegal to be both by US Department of Labor standards. When I called the on it they fired me, but even the US department of labor uses racketeering of this type. The states save tons of money, provide lousy services to the mentally ill, veterans and elderly and pocket the difference in the federal block grants. We get paid by the "billable hour" and if clients don't show up we stay at work unpaid answering phones,supervising paraprofessionals and doing paperwork for free because they don't pay you for the time it takes to do it, but they will take your license if you don't. Now they are privatizing jails and even protective services. Soon they will send their enforcers after people like me who complain about it. I'm ready for them.
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