Arizona's budget woes (and bone-headed Republicanism)

The Republicans in the Arizona Legislature never cease to amaze me. There is this article in today's Arizona Republic about their plan for balancing the budget. Once again, the Republicans in the leg are united in their opposition to borrowing money through bonds to pay for school construction.

I thought our Republican friends believed that government should operate like a business? In case you Republicans don't know (apparently very few of you have worked outside of government or a think-tank), businesses borrow money for capital expenditures. The only reason that I can think of for their position is that they are seeking to make cuts that they don't have to restore because they hate government. How about thinking about how to best to serve our state and put your simplistic and idiotic ideology down for a minute? BTW -- Cutting money from the Department of Economic Security during a recession is pretty dumb, even for our Republican legislature.

This is my favorite part of the article:

Still, the plans drew some comment from people concerned about its priorities.Jack Confer showed up to tell lawmakers that they're reaching too far with their proposal to take $1 million from the budget of the state Osteopathic Board. "We have less than what (you're) asking to take from us," Confer said, noting the agency as of Tuesday had $964,000 in its account.

Classic... You cannot cut more than the agency is allocated...