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    TX: Broken, Unsupervised Programs

    Texas Conservative Review
    by Gary Polland

    Has Texas Government Become Dysfunctional?

    TCR wonders what has happened? In the last year, three major state agencies have come under fire for criminal activity, and/or for incompetence and/or for ineptitude.

    The three agencies are the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT).

    With TYC, the question is who was watching the store, how could guards and administrators be involved in the sexual abuse of children? Why didn't anyone do anything about it for so long?

    Clearly, the wrong people were put in charge and the TYC board oversight was virtually non-existent. The TYC board finally resigned at Governor Perry's request after the Senate voted to abolish it. The hiring of Thomas Stickrath who led Ohio reforms in youth corrections as a consultant is another good step. Maybe he wants to run TYC? It's clear we need a hands-on board that is not hoodwinked by an administrator cover up.

    CPS problems have long been chronicled since it became a part of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services and it continues to have problems. Despite legislative reforms which improved investigations into abused children last session, the system still has major issues and the caseworkers who actually try to help parents are essentially drowning due to huge turnover in workers (40% in Harris County-Houston). For those remaining, too many cases, too many court appearances and in some instances, marginally qualified workers. As for the good ones, they are underpaid. The CPS Administration has bastardized a program to help African-American families with their family problems into a quota system that has the effect of reducing African-American children in the system, making it harder to be removed from high-risk situations.

    The most recent high profile disaster was a multi-relative placement of children (moved four times in six months) and not removed to foster care, which was revealed by KHOU-TV in Houston. The final score: one dead child and one with a sexually transmitted disease. This is another broken state agency that needs fresh, quality leadership and sweeping out of the incompetent, of the cronies and the hangers-on. The state has work to do here.

    Finally, the Texas equivalent of the CIA, the Texas Department of Transportation. TCR continues to be astonished as to all the secret and confidential dealings of the agency. Hopefully the appointment of Ned Holmes of Houston will help here.

    But clearly, the agency needs to be accountable to the Governor and Legislature on the TransTexas Corridor contract deal with rumors of limitations on free state roads. The deals need to be looked at, evaluated and approved after a public hearing by our elected, not appointed, leadership.


    Republicans are supposed to be better managers than Democrats. It is time to start showing it, don't you think? Cleaning up these agencies would be a good start.
    THE POOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN MY AVATAR CROSSED OVER THE WRONG BORDER FENCE!!!

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    Has Texas Government Become Dysfunctional?
    That's begging the question...

    Now look at the State of the Union, and who was Governor of Texas prior to becoming (Emperor) President!

    As I have been saying for a long time, neither Democrats nor Republicans are accountable to anyone but the Corporate Masters that choke-chain them into submission with their "contributions".

    It would be a bad dog that actually bit the hand that feeds it, no? All I see in political office is 3-legged, 20 year old, arthritic "Taco Bell" Pinschers with no teeth, and a yipping, yapping and annoying "give me more treats" whining!

    Time to put those dogs down---they have had their good life! In with some Dobermans, Bulldogs, and Greyhounds, perhaps a few German Shepherds too! That would liven the hand-biting!
    Title 8,U.S.C.§1324 prohibits alien smuggling,conspiracy,aiding and
    abetting!

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