The Garden of Earthly Delights

I think the creeping corruption and ineffectualness of Texas state agencies, post consolidation, is nearing critical mass lately. One can see about anywhere one cares to look.

I spoke with a young mother today who baby is deaf, retarded, and struggling for breath with congenital hypothyroidism, the most easily preventable cause of mental retardation there is, because the department of health waited ten days to test her blood samples - the critical time period for reversing the effects of illness. Medical beaurocracys layered in red tape (Medicaid rules) cost this infant a normal life.

Bexar County is auditing CPS from top to bottom because children die of abuse and neglect while in their jurisdiction, but finds resources to harass and victimize single moms with disabled children and home school families. (mysa.com)

In further news from Bexar County, we have 5 x's the national rate for Hepatitis B in newborns, and staggeringly high numbers of liver cancer in population.

Autism in children runs 1/96 now. TEA requires autism programs in every school. This is not enforced, and autism programs are practically non-existent.

Try and get adult mental health care if you are uninsured. Texas doesn't fund it. They leave that task to the county jails - where untreated mental illness winds up sooner or later anyway.

I don't see where any of these problems are getting any better by a voting population that doesn't give a shit about other people, but the cost in the future will be dear.