Texas politics producing tragic embarassments

The current political party in power in Austin - the Republicans - has been so fixated on the singular task of reducing property taxes in Texas that far more meaningful problems have gone unresolved and become tragic embarrassments to all Texans.
And it makes you want to cry.
The criminal negligence surrounding the emergencies that exist within Child Protective Services and the Texas Youth Commission cast a sad shadow across this state. This is how the rest of the nation views how we treat children in need, by starving their budgets to death and then covering up abuse (in the case of TYC).
In testimony, it is disclosed that as many as 40 foster children, with no place to go because of a shortage of foster homes/parents and the resources to hire enough people to process the cases, are forced to sleep in CPS offices. What kind of bullshit is that?!? How dare the state of Texas treat children in that manner?!?
Understaffed workers often place these children in situations, equal or worse than the danger that is being avoided. The case load in Texas for a caseworker is twice the recommended national average and people are fleeing from the professional side.
The TYC situation, where abuse has taken place of young children in TYC facilities (by adults), gone unreported and covered up, is intolerable. Heads should roll but they won't because, now we learn, the TYC information reached the governor’s office before last November’s election. Yet nothing was done and fingers are pointing in every direction. I'm sure we will hear a now familiar refrain, "Mistakes were made." The next politicial to utter that should be shot on the spot.
We should be ashamed of ourselves and of how our so-called representatives in Austin are reacting to this catastrophe. It is a prime example of bad government on the cheap and the all-too-casual dismissal of our social responsibilities for the sake of saving a few pennies here and there. Paying less taxes is fine and dandy if we can afford it. But not if we have to live with such blight on our society, perpetrated by people who workship the almighty dollar more than the human condition.
However, until the voters decide to change the faces making these choices, to vogte these bastards out of office, we will be saddled with such horror stories.
"We get the government we deserve." - Don Henley