Government Spending    In Arizona, education bureaucracy growth
has greatly exceeded student growth. Between 2004 and 2008
growth in six key education components in Arizona outpaced the
growth of the number of students plus inflation. At what point
do we question the amount of bureaucracy in the education
system?  Over the last five years, student population has
increased 11 percent, but administrators and managers combined
have increased nearly 46 percent.  As Janet Napolitano leaves
Arizona for greener pastures, we should acknowledge that she was
an innovative governor who changed the culture of her office.
But not in a good way.  Her predecessors recognized the need for
responsible management of the budget. Napolitano's reaction to
both lean and fat budget years was basically the same: spend,
spend, and spend some more. The result is Arizona's huge budget
deficit.  From 2000 to 2008, spending by the Arizona Health Care
Cost Containment System (Arizonas state-funded health program
for low-income families, A