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1. Comment by be n. (dover) — March 15,2009 @ 12:45AM
Ratings: -3 +11
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
Ratings: -3 +11
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
Ratings: -8 +4
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
Ratings: -5 +2
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
Ratings: -3 +5
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
Ratings: -1 +4
#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
Ratings: -0 +0
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.