By now I am sure you have heard about the lady who appearantly adopted children simply to get the money each month and kept the children tied up and handcuffed.  Of course, a story like this should and does outrage us.  However, there was one line in this story that also bugged me.

It appears that the state can't accept responsibility.  It has been my experience that children in state's custody are often emotionally damaged, as much by the situation from which they were removed, as the instability offered by the state.  But, in this situation, the state refused to take any blame for continuing to place children with this lady.  The line in the article states.

Potential adoptive parents must meet strict requirements in order to adopt a child and Leekin would have needed as many as three witnesses per adoption to testify to adoption agencies about her character and parenting abilities.

An ACS spokesperson told ABC News that these witnesses are being probed by authorities.

So, it isn't the state's fault for not following their own policy, it is the witnesses fault.  I don't get it. 

This reminds me of the education system.  The state continues to mess things up, drop our rates go up, reading rates go down, our quality of education declines, but it isn't the system's fault, it's yours, because you don't pay enough taxes, you aren't involved enough, you don't care enough, you take the best and brightest out of the school and homeschool them, yada, yada, yada. 

I have just one thought.  If it's broke, fix it.  If it can't be fixed, get rid of it!!!!