I also agree that it's bullshit that she's letting the tax payer care for her sped son while she's wasting money like this, but it's also just a shithouse thing for a mother to do to her son. Lucas deserves to be in the fartbox because he's a greedy, lazy sex pest. But you'd imagine Myrna would have better maternal instincts than to ler her son rot away with stage four kidney disease in a government run group home.
I agree on principle and believe she was a driving force in Lucas being the way he is. Sure, he's a deranged tard, but he wasn't a mentally incapacitated tard that was destined to be like this. I'm not saying Lucas was ever gonna have a "normal" life or anything like that, but he could have easily had a stable career at one of those places that employee people of his variety. He could have probably made enough to live on his own and drive a shitty car while receiving less government subsidies. She simultaneously coddled and ignored him in the worst possible that led Lucas to Malon Place.
However, at this time, WTF could she do for him?
Maybe it'd be more feasible now since he's calmed down greatly, but that's likely due in part to being force-fed pills. She'd never do that. She'd let him roam around free-range style, he'd return to his normal zany behaviors, and he'd end up becoming an uncontrollable menace to society once again. Lucas unironically needs the state to provide structure and subsidies for him to have any quality of life. That's the unfortunate and crazy thing about it because he's somehow both:
- The prototypical use case for someone who absolutely should receive government support and autonomy defined by the state. (Now there's an extremely valid argument as to whether he should be institutionalized or not, but he's "thriving" as much as he can thrive right now.)
- Such an ungrateful reprobate that everyone who observes him is keenly aware that all the resources he receives are wasted, so what's the point in even trying.
It sucks that Myrna waived all responsibility of Lucas for the US taxpayer to take care of, but the only way she improve the situation is build a time machine. Whether the solution to improving Lucas via time machine is raising him properly or aborting him is a different question.