So what happened to DCF?

Former Governor Jeb Bush had a problem. The Department of Children and Families. The agency that gives out welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid- The agency that catered to deadbeats and loafers... The ne'er do wells content to soak of the teat of society, giving nothing back. 10 children from 10 fathers, ghettos, junkies, winos, pimps, and whores... Everything his black Republican heart loathed...

After the unceremonious dumping of DCF Secretary Kearney in the wake of the Rylia Wilson debacle, Okie and Christian evangelical, Jerry Reiger, was charged with making a change, relegating DCF to the necessary evil it was, and tacitly saving money by obstructing the applicants. While he later departed amidst a swarm of controversy regarding acceptance of luxury gifts while Secretary, he set forth to transform the agency all together, and how they went about it was downright diabolical, if what I suspect is actually true.

When I first read the request for bids for public assistance eligibility determination as I sat in my office between clients, I was incredulous. Who in the world would ever privatize the welfare system? They already didn't pay us very well, our offices were in the ghetto and in shambles, and the computer system, F.L.O.R.I.D.A., was (is) a relic of the COBOL era... Turns out welfare can be a lucrative business, somehow attracting the likes of defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Guess building things that kill poor people abroad just wasn't cutting it, so they expanded to finding ways to screw the poor at home...

Anyway, it wasn't long until rumors circulated that Florida was on the brink of privatization. It just cost too much to run the agency as is, and somehow a for-profit company could turn a nickel and do it all for less... We would all have to reapply for our jobs, but there were no guarantees of anything... Fortunately for us, the state would also give us a chance to save ourselves. The department could put together an A-Team of employees, design our own department, and if we could stay competitive with the private firms, we might just keep our jobs. As soon as I heard this I realized that there was probably no intention to privatize, really- just screw the system up so badly that people would just give up trying to get welfare...Keep our jobs? After what happened to the department, few ended up wanting to.

The long and the short of it is that a bunch of out-of-touch administrator types formed a brain-trust and came up with what was know as Moderinzaion which stood for God knows what apart from a total cluster fuck that gets clusterier every day.