ARIZONA THE DUMBEST

Arizona Republic headlines ... ARIZONA RANKED DUMBEST IN US … COMPARISON OF STATES’ EDUCATION SYSTEM SYSTEMS, PER-PUPIL FUNDING AMONG CRITERIA IN SURVEY …

Might is be that given our proclivity as citizens in a State which blindly follows the fashioned “flavor-of-the-day” propaganda issued by our Political and Corporate leaders we are richly deserving of this dubious distinction…?

Might is be that given our proclivity as citizens in a State which chooses to spend more time, effort and money funding private Corporate agendas with public money, like arenas for football, basketball, baseball and hockey leaving precious little time to ponder the real needs of our state like, quality education for all its citizens, genuinely “safe” drinking water, development of an honestly inclusive border policy with Mexico, addressing the air quality issues thorough our state, attention to public transportation and a growing and aggravated long term water problem we richly deserve to wear the “dunce” cap and the brand it carries…?

Might is be that in a State where we choose to allow our Governor and all our elected public officials on city, county, state and national levels to placate us with nonsensical and totally meaningless 30 second sound bites we deserve the title as the “dumbest” …?

There is a saying that you get what you paid for and I think this is exactly what we bought. We purchased elected public officials who have provided to us, a state and nation of “robots” incapable of holding these public official’s feet to the fire and therefore incapable of demanding they perform not for themselves and their cronies, but for us - all of us.