State Agencies Doing Their Job
By terryt52
@terryt52 (243)
United States
March 10, 2011 6:24pm CST
I am a big news person and I read alot. This week I have noticed alot of children killed or hurt by their parents. Of most of them there has been a family and childrens case opened on them. I do not understand what these state agencies are doing that these cases are closed and then a child ends up dead or hurt. Our social services in our state was told they did not give out enough food stamps. Right away they said they were understaffed. I went to the web site for state employees that you can pull up their pay scale and the pension for retirees. I was totally amazed at the pay rate and pensions. My point being if you get 81,000 a year to investigate a child being abuese then why in the heck our all these children being killed and hurt. I do not know how your state operates but our state employees who are hired to protect our children do not do their job. I could go on and on about the cases they have fudged however bottom line we have got to do a better job to protect our children
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3 responses
@laglen (19759)
• United States
11 Mar 11
I understand the understaffed. So how about pay them 40,000 and have half the case load. If they actually care, then this would be a great deal. but then, they will probably strike. 
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
11 Mar 11
I have worked with Social Services for most of my career in Education. The one thing I learned is that the people who work for Social Service tend to be people who think they know what is best for everyone else.
I have know SS Workers who have spent their time trying to keep a mother from having to work and keep their benefits. It seems that they are more concerned with keeping their clients dependent on them and in the system. The last thing the worker wants is to have the client become self sufficient.
@terryt52 (243)
• United States
11 Mar 11
You are exactly right. I did foster care and I have a girl that was thrown out of the system. She is living with me and she is ob entitlements. I push her to get out there and get a job and her social worker tells her just do this and you can keep your benefits that is job security at taxpayers expense. thank you for your ressponse
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
11 Mar 11
I read a news report today about two boys who have not been seen in at least ten years. They were 7 and 9 the last time anyone saw them alive. It only came to light because their adoptive parents got arrested on other charges and suddenly they discover that these two boys just disappeared off the face of the earth ten years ago.
There are a lot of cases where social services fell down on the job. There are other cases where they unnecessarily destroy good families with good parents because they have no oversight and can do things that no one else could do lawfully.
The problem is basically that this is a government agency. There will be inefficiency, overreach, underperformance, mistakes, mishandling and poor employees will continue to be employed regardless.
