Arizona budget Increase spending: Prisons Cut spending:health care, education, technology.

please look for it and post the link!!!!

The funny part of your logic is that Obama and Arizona shouldn't be criticised because other states or previous presidents and politicians are also at fault. Comparable to America's logic that if it isn't working, just keep doing it (Iraq, Oil, No Child Left Behind, Etc). Yeah! But if budgets are decreasing in health care and help for the needy as well as education, as you and the article mentioned, but increasing for incarceration in prisons, no state or politician is free from criticism.

I said blaming Obama for an other Presidents fault is unfair, just as much as for Brewer being blamed for Napolitano's years as Governor. And if Arizona was the ONLY ONE to cut the State budget by cutting Education, Welfare, Health, then fine.. However, we are not and ALL STATES are looking at cuts INCLUDING cuts to POLICE force and FIRE departments. We have yet to do that. So prisons are getting more guards..you think crime is going down?

I'm just saying why is this article so much about Arizona than other States? NO STATE is without fault. Do I like what's happening in AZ, no. But what is the alternative? We know that NO government official is ever going to lower their wages to help out a state, actually I think I did read about one-can't remember who or where-however, that is the exception, not the rule. Or make cuts where it doesn't hurt? Wasn't it the State of IL who raised taxes by 66% recently, and this doesn't upset anyone or hurt families and children? AZ has yet to raise taxes, oh but we are the bad guys.

But if someone is going to upload an article about one State, do the research and show ALL States doing the same. Arizona is not alone in the financial turmoil and hard choices have to be made. They may have repercussions later, but as usual with EVERYONE's thinking, do now, worry tomorrow.

Are you really speaking about arizona the kidnap capital of the world. thee most conservative state in america do you really mean arizona were if you look a certain way your going to be jailed for being not a red neck snuff spitting blue collar cowboy.ms.napilotano, had to work with an all republican house& state senate & janet didn't make arizona one of the most un american states that there is.were congress woman cant stand at a supermarket without being shot!! Yep great job Jane Brewer keep up the great work jane maybe you can help start another great depression opps the republicans already did that well maybe she can reform health care opps oboma already did that as well.I bett jane isn't going to give up her government health care but she's not giving arizonans there health care.yah arizona great place to live if your in the K.K.K!!!

I would agree about the kidnapping rate, however you didn't go far enough w/ your research and failed to mention that most kidnaps happened in Phoenix and then the kidnappers went South to Mexico. Location is everything. BTW, her name is JANICE, AKA Jan Brewer, not Jane. You make it sound as if Arizona is the ONLY State where people get shot and as if NO ONE in the entire US has ever been shot while standing on the streets, in a grocery store, outside of a grocery store, a school, and well, basically anywhere located on US soil. Did you even click on those links where other States are suffering and making the very same decisions. Nah, I didn't think so. Well keep thinking what you want.

Arizona sucks fucking bawlz! Next to Texass, this is the worst, most prejudiced, bunch of fat assholes in the world!

You know your rite a congress woman gets shot every day at a supermarket across america yah rite get your research rite it's not every day that a member of congress gets gunned down .only in arizona would could someone believe that they could murder a government officer & get respect from right wing nut bags I mean republicans. jane jan its all the same she's still the governor of the shit hole state called arizona !! If you wanna get shot in the head at a supermarket or kidnaped please fill free to go visit arizona it's a trip to die for lol

right...I have seen some of the waste that occurs in our schools first-hand, and not just at the elementary or high school level, but what is really appalling to me is the amount of public money that pays for professorial jaunts around the globe where the state picks up the tab, over and over again, so faculty can present a paper at a conference being held for the purpose of .....what?

In the age of the internet and Skype, is it really necessary to pay billions of dollars every year for jet-setter professors to present in person what they can do, as TED has so famously demonstrated, via satellite to a much broader audience?. This globe trotting is considered to be one of the perks of the profession, and higher education administrators are afraid to deal with it honestly and put a stop to it. It's a lot easier to freeze salaries, and cut benefits for the masses than to admit this practice goes on and on and on.

They cut poor people and people who will die soon. If they don't die and protest they will lock them up until they die so they can't go on TV and expose her anymore.

Yes, Skype is not a replacement for actually going out into the real world and learning about other cultures first hand.

I didn't say that, but you really are a smartass sometimes. What are you, twenty something, and you mouth off about people's comments on here all the time as if you are some world wise know-it-all.

No, Skype is not a replacement for learning about other cultures first hand, but I can bet you don't know shit about university culture, and yet you make some Skype comment like that is what I was saying. I'm pretty sure you have no idea how much money is spent on professorial jaunts across the globe. People do need to learn about other cultures first hand, and I'm all for funding student travel and education abroad, but these old farts who have been to the same European cities twenty times to present their same old tired research are the ones I'm talking about, and university administrators know who they are...they just don't want to rock the entitlement boat.

Wait....what?? I'm not talking about that at all.... Obviously that's wrong and we shouldn't cut programs that could cause someone to die if it was cut....I think literally everyone agrees on that. I'm only talking about the wasteful spending that DOES occur in programs including education and healthcare. Are you seriously saying that there's not a single wasted cent in either of those areas?

I know! Why did we not think of this sooner?!

Maybe they can save even more money, and just move classes into prisons instead. Ingenious! Now you don't need to spend for two buildings!