I have been abroad. That's irrelevant. What's important in Brewer's "slash-and-burn" approach is that, having eliminated dependent care for state employees with same-sex partners, adult disabled dependent children, unmarried straight couples, and adult students aged above 22, she has consistently balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and most oppressed. Her God placed her in the position for a reason, so she says.
Her governance, instead of following the dictates of "clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, and comforting the afflicted," has been to strip, starve, spurn, and torment. She'll get her just reward from her God, but the voters, having had enough, will turn her out of office because many of the cuts she made directly contradicted the will of the people, expressed through democratic voting.
This short-sighted approach, calculated to ensure her party's dominance, will, let us pray, expose "compassionate conservatism" for the fraud it is. There are conservatives who ARE compassionate and just. She and the political machine she follows have been so long gone over to the dark side, that one despairs of them ever coming back.
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