Comments on: Brewer looks to horizon; lawmakers just want budget done

By: Irons

Irons — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:17:46 +0000

Problem is icecat, they don’t care whether anything haunts us in the future or not. What they want is their ideology and nothing else. It doesn’t matter if it is good for Arizona or not, it is GOP ideology and control that matters the most to most of the “legislators” here. The electorate be damned

By: icecat

icecat — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:16:56 +0000

Since I moved here in 1995, the one thing that has continued to irk me regarding the Republican leadership in our state government, is that they never plan for the future. So the GOP leadership in the Senate comes up with a so-called balance budget (full of gimmicks) what about next year? What about the major cuts in education and prisons, does anyone think those cuts today, will come back and haunt us in the future?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:33:39 +0000

Unfortunately, there is tremendous apathy among Arizona voters. With (this is a guess) 60% of Arizonans receiving little, or no, benefit from the state other than decent roads to drive on, there is little impetus to care. The other 40% consist of the socially and economically disadvantaged, who need societal dollars to survive, or students, who need a government stipend to continue learning. Neither group is apparently willing to help themselves to the degree necessary for a successful individual outcome.
With a 2010 operating budget of $10 billion that is already $4 billion in the red, the situation seems hopeless. I am in the 60% mentioned above, my roads are good enough, and quite frankly, I don’t care what my elected employees do to save or destroy Arizona. They lost me years ago.