Sunday's Arizona Republic(-an Party press release outlet) contains an op-ed published under the Governor's name wherein she assesses the reasons for the inability of the state's elected leaders to balance Arizona's budgets.
She looks at previously enacted cuts to...
...the state's work force...
...K-12 education funding...
...University-level education funding...
...prison spending...
...child care enrollees (I think that she is talking about her drastic cuts to KidsCare here)
...and the fact that she, Russell Pearce, and the rest of the Republicans on West Washington will be looking to further decimate education and social safety net programs in the coming year...
And blames the devastating cuts, past and pending, on [drum roll please]...
...the federal health care reform package that was signed into law earlier this year, describing it with the Republican epithet "ObamaCare".
In the op-ed, she blithely ignored...
...the state's increased population over the last decade, requiring an increased, or at least a status-quo, level of services...
...the state's decreased revenues due to both the cratered economy and generations of ideologically-driven but reality-blind tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Arizonans...
...years of papering over the state's structural deficits (caused by the blind revenue-cutting) with accounting tricks like pushing back mandated payments (aka - "kicking the can down the road").
This op-ed, probably written by a puppeteer/staffer but published under Brewer's name, clearly signals that she and her R colleagues have no intention of addressing the state's fiscal crisis in a professional and responsible manner, instead choosing to put their efforts into misdirecting attention away from their continued willful ineptitude.
The Arizona GOP: the party that keeps on giving...the finger to the next generation.
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