I write this in response to two diaries:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Social workers have a hard job. They are called upon to do hard things that would be difficult for anyone to do. Like take babies from their parents. Social Workers are not the bad guys. The problem is they get really bad press. Why?
When a Department of Human Services worker is a fucktard layabout or maybe just untrained, children die. And if it burns or bleeds, it is News. Sometimes they make mistakes because their case loads are overwhelming. And everyday civil service competence is so boring. Try and do without it. You won't like what happens.
And when people, who have never negotiated the social safety net that is The Welfare, receive the advice to take their disabled or dependent children/adults to the homeless shelter, the People get savage with indignation. And rightfully so. But you do not GET IT. Here IT is.
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