New Mexico Mercury

Make no mistake about it, Susana has learned a thing or two from her buddies the Koch bros. First she hired Catherine Torres to destroy the Dept. of Health. Since our wonderful gov. took office, case care workers who serve the most needy and helpless clients—folks with Downs Syndrome, the severely retarded, indeed anyone who can’t get by without help—these caregivers who are often family members, and are often the only support for the helpless, are now facing a huge paperwork increase to document in the minutest ridiculous detail every minute, every second, every nanosecond of their patient’s “progress.”

It’s hard to imagine, under many circumstances what progress can be made after taking care of a severely disabled patient who has made no progress in thirty years, but now suddenly to have to be responsible for something that is virtually impossible to accomplish. And now, the caregivers are saddled with all this extra busy work, a huge mountain of irrelevant documentation, to justify their existences.

The results of all this agonizing, confusing and boring labor are shipped from the client’s home directly to the governor’s mansion in lead caskets that the governor can open and review in her spare time when she’s not planning secret audits of every health care non-profit in the state in order to sell them off to Arizona companies, and when she’s not dismantling the medical marijuana program or stripping away Medicaid from the helpless and needy. 

It’s extremely funny how no one can seem to get a handle on all these secret dealings the gov. is engaged in to destroy the health care system.  It’s also very amusing hearing the silent screaming of all these caregivers who are collapsing in despair over this meaningless mountain of crap that must be generated to justify their existence, which of course is unjustifiable. This is a great and bold legacy of which the governor is quite right to puff herself up about because it’s just damn fun to take a machete to people who have no defense and watch them destroyed without a single peep of protest or agony.

Thank you dear and wise and wonderful governor Susana for showing us all the shining path to a beautiful and meaningful future, a future without health care, a future without hope.