Backpacks for foster kids

I posted the article to this earlier, and coming across the video a second time, it set my mind to wanderin.



There are 6,000 children in foster care in Connecticut in any given month. That's a lot of kids, who's lives seem to always be in transition. But there's an effort underway to give foster kids one simple thing, which may help provide just a little big of stability.

Note: This is bullshit! "It's gonna mean so much..." Oh yeah, we're gonna put you in your 14th foster home, but it's okay now because you get a new backpack! Yep! Uh huh... (I hope you were imagining the bobbing head of the pop-tart who was doing all the talking in the video when you read that last statement)

I already posted my thoughts on this obvious attempt at brainwashing the ignorant here. But the visuals are much more powerful, as the editors pick and choose 2 seconds of the most emotionally charged comments from an hour or more of taped video while the reporter asks, "How do you feel" as if they were getting ready to prescribe you your psyche meds.

It's all about appearances people.

Now before some system suck gets her panties in a bunch, I have nothing against the person who is collecting backpacks for foster children. She is doing this out of the kindness of her heart and you should even send her one, donate it in the name of your favorite family rights group for all I care. It's like my buddy Jb will tell ya, "KINDNESS CAN BECOME ITS OWN MOTIVE. WE ARE MADE KIND BY BEING KIND!!!" So this is not an attack on doing nice things for foster children and don't cheap out just because I'm irritated with the PR Campaign.

What pisses me off about it all is the fact that it is being promoted as the solution to the problem of bouncing kids through the system. New backpack or not, that kid is going to be uprooted again and again like a cute little unwanted puppy regardless of the fact that all of these foster parents have so much love to give for a week or a year.

This is not even an original idea for a CPS Public Relations campaign. I come across crap like this all the time.

Here's one.

Here's another.

And another.

And another.

How many do you want?

See the pattern yet? Don't bother reading all of them, they're all the same.

The problem is that kids are being bounced from home to home. Lets see them come up with a solution for that.

Here's mine...

Stop stealing our children!