Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, files push for Levi Johnston to spend nude modeling

[The Patriot]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_sarah_palins_daughter_bristol_charges_playgirl_ model_levi_johnston_is_a_deadbeat.html

Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol wants her baby-daddy Levi Johnston to pay a chunk of the money he's made from his nude modeling centerfolds to pay child support for their year-old son, the gossip website TMZ reported Friday.

"I have received limited and sporadic financial assistance from Levi," Bristol, daughter of the former vice-presidential candidate, said in a sworn statement

Bristol claims Johnston raked in "in excess of $105,000 in 2009 through various media interviews and modeling related activities," according to TMZ, but has paid her only $4,400 since their son Tripp was born on Dec. 27, 2008.

She is seeking $1,750 a month in temporary child support for their son Tripp, pending a permanent child support order.

Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, said his client has paid Palin more than $10,000 since the child was born, and noted that Johnston doesn't make money off of every appearance.

When Bristol filed a petition for full legal custody of Tripp in November, she claimed that, "Levi is not yet mature enough to take on significant parental responsibilities."

The handsome, soft-spoken but intellectually challenged Johnston posed nude for Playgirl in December and has done celebrity gigs for Vanity Fair, Entertainment Tonight and Oprah.

bkates@nydailynews.com

[Liberty Star]

Disgraced politician grandma Palin may not be the best example of moral living but won't that be "dirty money"?

[The Patriot]

http://www.nolanchart.com/article6043.html

The Great Custody & Child Support Scam
The American family is the last bastion of defense against the ever expanding tyranny of the socialist-welfare state and corrupt bureaucrats who would usurp dominion and subjugate our citizenry.
by Jake Morphonios
(conservative libertarian)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

A series of social-welfare policies promulgated by President Lyndon Johnson were enacted in the 1960's and came to be known as the "Great Society". The intent of these programs was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice among the inner city poor. After 30 years, however, the result of these financial incentives has been the destruction of the traditional father-mother-child family unit among this demographic and the subjugation of millions of Americans to ghettoes, often rife with violence and crime.

By the 1970's the US government estimated that the skyrocketing costs of these social-welfare programs, which cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, would bankrupt the federal treasury. Politicians proposed myriad solutions but the entrenched welfare regime was not going to give up its power without a fight.

In the 1980's and early 1990's, the efforts of Presidents Reagan and Bush to reform welfare failed. Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled Congress again tried to enact welfare reform, but it wasn't until President Bill Clinton joined in the fray that any substantive change occurred. Unfortunately, rather than reduce the welfare state, politicians greatly expanded it. The chief adjustment to the welfare system occurred under Title IV-D. The gravitational pull of the welfare bureaucracy had now sucked into its control middle and upper class Americans. If the welfare policies of the 1960's were disastrous, those of the 1990's were apocalyptic.

In the beginning, state welfare agencies gave financial assistance, such as food stamps and housing, to low income recipients. Because the federal government was subsidizing these state welfare programs, it decided to try to get some of its money back by going after "deadbeat dads" who were supposedly getting low income women pregnant and then abandoning all responsibilities for their children.

Under Title IV-D mandates, when a woman applied for welfare benefits she was obligated to simultaneously apply for legal services to establish the paternity of these "deadbeat" fathers and then collect child support from them. Naturally, some of the money would end up in the coffers of child support collection agencies. Like sharks smelling blood, bureaucrats began a feeding frenzy, devouring the resources of innocent fathers.

Under the welfare reforms of the 1990's, state governments were drafted into the child support collection racket. The federal government began providing millions of dollars to state governments that met child support collection quotas. Because states are largely free to use this money to fund their budgets as they wish, child support collection became a very lucrative business. It came as no surprise that as states competed against each other for federal funds they began to impose outrageous child support orders against more and more men - thus increasing the pool of potential "deadbeats" from which they could demand money. Pulled into this Orwellian nightmare were millions of middle and upper class men who had never abandoned their children and had no history of abdicating parental responsibilities. The original intent of Title IV-D was now history, and no man was safe from the insatiable addiction of state bureaucrats to free federal monies.

Have you ever wondered why fathers lose custody of their children in more than 85% of all family court custody cases? Well now you know. The government, including family courts other parties in the divorce-for-profit industry, receives an avalanche of funding by systematically separating men from their children. The less time a man is given with his child, the more child support he is ordered to pay - and the more money that the government can forcibly collect from him.

How is this scam accomplished? Why isn't there more outrage? For tyranny to succeed, it must employ effective propaganda. The myth of the "deadbeat dad" is perpetuated by the media, by governments, by the family court system and even by well-intentioned citizens who claim to want to "save the children".

A middle-class dad who is involuntarily divorced by his wife and loses custody of his children through no fault of his own, who does his best to care for his children in spite of the unjust system of family law that has stripped him of his parental rights is not a deadbeat. Yet he will be vilified on the nightly news, his face will appear on Wanted posters and pizza boxes for child support arrearages, he will have his wages garnished, his drivers' license suspended and his reputation ruined. And though he is innocent of any wrongdoing, he will receive neither sympathy nor support. His money now belongs to the government, and the full force of the child support industry will compel him to pay or he will be thrown in jail without mercy. Welcome to the United States of America.

In his masterful work, 1984, George Orwell penned the infamous slogan of Big Brother:

"War is Peace - Freedom is Slavery - Ignorance is Strength"

In 2009, perhaps Mr. Orwell would add to his list the official slogan of the expanded and improved powers of Big Brother:

"Marriage is Encumbrance - Divorce is Entitlement - Bureaucracy is Enrichment"

The American family is the last bastion of defense against the ever expanding tyranny of the socialist-welfare state and corrupt bureaucrats who would usurp dominion and subjugate our citizenry. If the institutions of fatherhood and the family fail to withstand this liberty eroding plague of despotism, the fulfillment of Orwell's vision of the future will be complete.

[Elwar]

It's quite obvious that the media is using Levi to smear Palin...

I'm no fan of Palin but it's sick the lengths they'll go to smear someone...even as far as following him to his nude shoot.

[BlackTerrel]

Shouldn't this be in the "TMZ" section?

[JXL78]

The nolanchart article is very interesting but that really doesn't apply here. Levi makes a shit load off of making fun of the Palin family. Something about that seems wrong. He wouldn't get any of that cash if it weren't for them.

[TheConstitutionLives]

Shouldn't this be in the "TMZ" section?

Yep.

Why is this E-Channel garbage considered worthy news on this forum? I thought we here were intellectually better than to give a sh*t about this tabloid crap which is irrelevant . I guess not. This topic belongs in the forum's "Dumbed Down American Topics" section.

[Kotin]

this bullshit does not belong on this forum.

[2young2vote]

"Levi is not yet mature enough to take on significant parental responsibilities."

Um...who is the one who needs the money again? The fact that they had that baby when they weren't ready tells me that BOTH aren't mature enough.