How about we start by not overcharging exorbitant amounts and gouging prisoners and their families before we increase the 1984 levels in prisons?! The whole US prison industry is so damn corrupt its infuriating.
One of the kids needed a medical authorization approved by the parent so I naively waltz into the local jail and say, "I have a piece of paper for so-and-so to review and sign"
Oh boy, they laughed and laughed at me. You idiot, only lawyers can do that. And her lawyer for her criminal case isn't going to be here for awhile. They said we could talk to her for like $10/min on a video conference system (she still couldn't sign anything) I was like, yeah but I am here face to face, they laughed again. That isn't safe. Only lawyers can talk face to face, you must talk through a video chat system located on site for a nominal fee.
Screw this. So we played the song and dance that involves shuffling papers to court appointed lawyers, waiting several weeks, and this latency made every tiny insignificant element of us providing the best care to these children absolutely impossible.
We quit foster care after 3 months.
Incidentally, an excellent question to add to your interview repetoire:
- What are the responsibilities of this position?
- What are the authorities of this position?
Plugging the phrase into Google Ngram Viewer and Google Book Search is interesting. Big bump at about 1920:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=responsibility...
Responsibility without authoirty is unfair, as well as dangerous, because it risks a sort of shifting blame. You may have seen this state of things among workmen, or between foremen and workmen, but any executive who is worthy of the name will be very careful to delegate both the responsibility for the results and the necessary authority to carry it through.
https://books.google.com/books?id=DT61kZUpxTsC&pg=PA63&dq=%2...
Well known is the fact that responsibility without authority, like authority without responsibility, is doomed to failure.
https://books.google.com/books?id=IGpOAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA9&dq...
I don't know how you can make this claim when you even admit in the very next sentence that the prisons get kickbacks... an obvious incentive to keep gouging the prices?
Then, I don't have any idea how you then turn it into a conversation about higher taxes? As if when someone is being exploitative but the taxpayers should make up the difference between the grift and how it should be?
How does any of what you are saying make any sense? I am just misunderstanding your point here?