Arizona has a severe state budget crisis. They are cutting police officers, schools, medical clinics, and public services ( as is California). What is the cause of this crisis ? It was caused by the great bank heist of 2008, finance capital and banking, mostly on Wall Street , Goldman Sachs, Chase Banks, Bank of America, AIG, and others, robbed the banks. This cost millions of jobs and the pension savings of millions. BTW. Almost all of the bankers who stole the money were White.
The Republicans and the Tea Party in Arizona is responding by assaulting U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, immigrants, and anyone who might look like an immigrant. Peter Wilson and the Republicans in California did the same in 1994- and won re-election. But, that did not resolve any of the problems.
Arizona, like California, has a crime problem. If you want to be responsible about this issue, we should increase significantly the number of police on the streets. And, to avoid making the problem worse, we should significantly increase the number of teachers in the schools.
Duane Campbell
No comments:
Post a Comment