AZ Budgets...again

After all of our drama earlier this year I've been hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to use the DES/DDD cuts tag again for a good long time. Unfortunately, it seems that its not going to happen that way. I just posted the first update in quite a while to my EI in AZ blog. I had let it all go because things were chugging along well enough and I just didn't have any new updates. Well now I do. Its just a proposed draft of the budget, but it isn't good at all for kids or families in need. What shocks me most is that the whole document is VERY matter-of-fact about the ill effects that have come from previous cuts, as well as the further ill effects that these cuts would have on children and families, and yet they're still proposing it as the only way out of this mess of a budget. Granted, this is only a draft, but it reflects what we've been hearing through the grapevine for some time.