Ah, that makes sense ...

They're in trouble. They often don't do a very good job. The laws they follow are contradictory and perverse. They are overworked, under-trained, under-funded, under-supported, under or wrongly staffed.

What to do? Why cut their funding, of course.

Child Protective Services faces legislative changes, may see its funding cut by Josh Brodesky

"Some of the legislative changes under consideration would make CPS case records more open, allow CPS workers to file missing persons reports, give them greater access to criminal history records and open state employee records to the public in the same way as municipal and county employee records.

"But with the state roughly a billion dollars in the red, there is also the prospect that the beleaguered agency will take a funding hit, even as it tries to meet public expectations for improvement."

Cutting funding when the opposite may be needed is how the red-mind works. But then there are a lot of the red-minded in the Arizona legislature.