state government

Bad choices. That's State Sen. Steven Geller's assessment of the Legislature's ability to set priorities. He's right, but didn't go far enough.

Try embarrassingly bad choices.

According to recently-released U.S. Census data, Florida ranks 50th in per capita spending for education. Dead freakin' last. To put that in perspective, the people in Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia and those other states we've joked at for years, can now justifiably begin laughing about ignorant Floridians. And that was the Legislature's choice before citizens approved the Amendment 1 tax cut.