my tea party

I did my own tea party, I purchased a bag of asphalt and fixed the street in front of my drive way. The city of Tucson is short of cash and maybe my asphalt will keep a cop employed for a day or two, or keep a teacher. all that happened with that tea party was a lot of media attention and over time for cops while they need to be on streets looking for criminals and not tea bagging speeders. Taxes pay for services.

about tha t stupid az tea party crew

you know that original tea part happened because wealth English men were imposing their well on poor Americans. I sometimes think that wealth people are imposing their wills on us by not supporting schools but they are more than willingly to support jails.

We should be sending our young children to prison now the ratio of controlling individuals to inmates is better in a prison and all they have to do is control the uncontrolable, like the arizona legislature.

SO WHEN THEESE PEOPLE MARCH DOWN TOWN, I DO NOT SUPOPORT THEM BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY, THAT THEY DO N OT WORK. AND DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY, AND DON'T CARE FOR THE REST OF US THAT DO.

There are jobs to be had in Tucson, but the magic word is 'skills'
While the daily headlines scream of mass layoffs, there are still jobs to be had locally — if you have the right skills.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/fromcomments/283614.php

1. Comment by francis w. (6565) — March 15,2009 @ 7:02AM
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In times like these many people discover just how worthless their college degrees are. It's a good idea to learn a skill that will always be in demand and be willing to get your hands dirty if that's what it takes to make a living. Right now, a good handyman can make a fortune if he's reliable, reasonable and available.

2. Comment by mike b. (mountainman) — March 15,2009 @ 7:06AM
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Good decisions are not made when everyone is in panic mode. Taking a job without researching your strong points and innate skills is a sure way to end up in a job you hate. Do you really want to answer phones all day long? Is that any kind of existence for anyone with an IQ higher than 85? Or how about the spirit-numbing task of assembly line work at Ventana? Pitched as "cutting-edge" medical innovations, what you would do is "put screw A in hole B" all, day, long. As far as Target, working retail has got to be one of the most demeaning methods of earning a living that exists in America today. Not only do you have to put up with bitchy customers all day, the store expects you to "respect" and "put the customer first" when all you want to do is strangle some of them. When not "serving" your customers, you will be required to dust shelves, open heavy boxes, stock shelves, sweep up, and pretend you give a damn about whether the huge corporation "makes plan."
I guess what I am saying is, don't take just any job. Find something you are interested in first, find the companies that do that, then go after them.


3. Comment by Dave L. (holadavid) — March 15,2009 @ 7:51AM
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The point of this story is that without "college degrees", job seekers lack the skill set to apply for the available jobs. With our repub state's drastic education cuts, our only continues real growth will be the lines at DES and the prison population.

4. Comment by Rod S. (W Dejavu) — March 15,2009 @ 8:58AM
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The only good jobs in Tucson require and education. How good an idea is it to reduce support of education in order to bring in low paying jobs.

Build up the schools, so that well educated, good paying employees and employers what to be here to extend their educations, families, and employment.

This state has declined for 20 years because of the path the Rep legislature has taken concerning education.

The typical well paid employee in Tucson, was not educated in Arizona.

But we Have money for prisons, which appear to be the legislatures growth industry, and even the employees there must have an education.

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1. Comment by be n. (dover) — March 15,2009 @ 12:45AM
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So is Fitz implying that if we had all the money CPS wanted they could prevent ALL child abuse, in the same way the NEA will say more $$$$ will make kids smarter.
Short of putting cameras and monitoring personnel in every domicile with kids, there is no way to prevent child abuse through government intervention.


2. Comment by Jeffrey H. (flibber) — March 15,2009 @ 2:55AM
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Weep, sniffle. Another partisan stab at the Republican legislature. When is this simpleminded partisan propaganda going to stop? Must every problem in the world be seen through a political partisan lens? From the horrid stories where children are the victims, it seems as if druggy parents with live-ins who could care less about the kids who are just in the way, are the main source of the problem. Think these folks are Republicans?


3. Comment by Ron H. (rwhughes) — March 15,2009 @ 6:26AM
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That is the saddest Fitz , I have seen in all the years I have been reading him. It's true and what is sadder is the republican party instead of making a change will go on making excuses. Too sad for words.Nancy Hamilton-Hughes


4. Comment by Lynne G. (5981) — March 15,2009 @ 7:05AM
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Children die while the Republica-controlled legislature fiddles...why are they so interested in preventing death in the womb and don't give a fig for live outside the womb????


5. Comment by Ralph C. (MidgetMan) — March 15,2009 @ 7:11AM
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Fitz is one sick puppy
Where is Fitz cartoon about the child abuse when an invader drags a small child across the deadly desert?
Oh wait, all Fitz cares about is blaming republicans for every problem on earth.


6. Comment by be n. (dover) — March 15,2009 @ 7:31AM
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#3,4: I understand what Fitz is trying to say, but as #2 points out, child abuse is a parenting issue and government can't make bad parents good and thus it's not a political issue per se. CPS at it's existing levels of funding was horribly dysfunctional with plenty of kids dying who were supposedly being monitored by CPS as well as some kids dying while supposedly being safe in foster care.
Sadly, CPS's track record didn't stop many children from being "hit hard" or worse even in the best of times. And watching that CPS supervisor on the stand in that trial saying she DID NOT CARE made my blood boil. Put her in box in a storage shed and see if she cares then.


7. Comment by Rod S. (W Dejavu) — March 15,2009 @ 8:38AM
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you know figure this one out, the legislature rep for district 26 does not want to kill animals so he will figure out how to tax us to save cats and dogs.
The legislature will allow us to be taxed to support millionaire ball players and their owners.
The major growth business in So Az is prisons, up 6% this year while schools are down.
The legislature will work with lobbyist to introduce new and improved payday loans.
But they sit in a closed room (closet) and starve DES/CPS. they do not support families or family values.
Fitz did not make the situation direct enough.

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1. Comment by siflay h. (raka) — March 12,2009 @ 5:38AM
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I don't get it. Fitz can be so obtuse.
(about as obtuse as a 6 month old with poop streaming out his diaper)
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2. Comment by Jeffrey H. (flibber) — March 12,2009 @ 6:15AM
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Ha, ha. Dose dwatted wepublicans are at it again. The weason our kiddies can't learn.
Ah, yes. Leave it to Fitz to keep things simple with the simple message: Republicans bad, Democrats good. Must be true if it's in a cartoon, the ultimate in depth analysis. Whether your child does good in school, like some kids in recent stories, or whether they do poorly or average all depends on the legislature which has WRECKED their chances to learn forever and wrecked their very lives. At least this is what I'm led to think by this cartoon.
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3. Comment by Rod S. (W Dejavu) — March 12,2009 @ 6:45AM
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education in Arizona is almost equivalent to Mexico. The only reason we have a rating in the 50 states is the fact there are only 50.
Who would come to Arizona with an education if they had children to educate even if they could find a good jobs. A poor education system equals a poor job market. Arizona spends 1/3 less per student than the national average. It isn't just the schools it is the support given from all areas.
Arizona will receive 220,000,000 for education, how will the state legislature figure out to feed their cronies and take it away from children's needs.
All they see this state needing is another version of payday loans, and legal theft of the poor working class.
4. Comment by Cindy L. (ParentX) — March 12,2009 @ 8:08AM
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From the very conservative American Legislative Exchange Council:
Arizona's per-pupil expenditure:1981-1982 $5,955 US ranking = 6th1986-1987 $6,309 US ranking = 31st1996-1997 $5,705 US ranking = 47th2006-2007 $6,248 US ranking = 50th
No - that isn't a typo. We spent $61 less per student in 2007 than we did 20 years ago.
I think the wrecking ball sums it up quite succinctly.
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5. Comment by John E. (JE) — March 12,2009 @ 12:35PM
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A better toon would of been without the wrecking ball from those numbers Cindy.
From what I see the state has not wrecked the education system, it has just not taken care of the system and let it wither on the vine.
Fitz could of done a better toon with the Leg setting in a chair and the school covered with vines in a deteriorated condition, but then that would take more thought then I know Fritz usually puts into his toons.
Been there several times Fritz when you did things on the fly and just as good as this.

on the no bad words, LA day

#4 you got it upside down. Conservatives fucus on words and not facts. The fucus happened the last 8 years. As for the @!)((# words, that is all some of us have left.

today and the fitz cartoon

#5, Joan, I agree with you, but they are taking all the money they can and dictating how to speed the rest. I think technology would be considered administrative costs by the legislature.
Taxes should not be raised right now, but a tax cut never educated a child, or paved a road. These characters in the legislature, and the gov should be talking to Kyle and McCain and telling them to vote for state money.
When you consider the GNP went down 4% last quarter and this legislation is barely 5% of the GNP, it is worth the investment.
A tax cut never helped someone without a job.
Oh well many of my posts have disappeared lately, but at least I wrote a comment.