When I talk to employees at CYFD (who will remain anonymous), I hear about all the ‘rights’ given so-called parents on drugs, with no proof that the money provided goes to caring for the children. The criminals in these cases (and they are criminals) are treated with kid gloves–and it is time to take them off! Women having babies out of wedlock, one after another? They should receive NO welfare–get it from their impregnators, or take their children away from them. They have already proved they are incompetent to care for children without a visible means of support! We pay highly for interpreters in our courts (particularly CYFD) to translate for illegal immigrants and even citizens who refuse to learn English! This is America, for God’s sake–learn English! Using MY tax dollars to fund programs for drunks and sex addicts in our prisons? No, it has already been proved that these programs are mostly unsuccessful. If you are going to have them, then charge the inmates! Letting DWI offenders off as easily as we do needs to stop. In fact, if the initial punishment were at least half way strong (a minimum of 6 months in jail and vehicle seizure), you wouldn’t have stupid people getting into their vehicle drunk. But our government is too wimpy and too afraid. Pathetic, just plain pathetic.

And then we have the idiots in this city complaining about the police shootings. The first letter in today’s letters to the editor in the ABQ Journal (4/29) hit i on the nail–these officers are getting idiots off the streets for the rest of us. Hello, the police aren’t shooting at upright citizens!. They are shooting at criminals who just don’t get it. APD is doing a great job, despite the fact we have stupid people living here who don’t think they are. But that is what you get in a state with a pathetic high-school graduation rate–uneducated people making stupid decisions, not to mention people without any common sense.

I could go on and on.