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Infamous Network/CSM 2011 Success Award Acceptance Speech
On March 22, 2011 we were honored with the Arizona Small Business Development Center's Success Award. The ceremony was held on the lawn of the State Capital in Phoenix.
Even though mine is the name most often mentioned, it has been a team effort the whole way! Success never happens in a vacuum and I would like to again offer sincere gratitude to everyone who has helped, supported, and believed in us over the past 15 years.
I chose to highlight our 'Education Is National Security' sticker at the end of the speech because the children of Arizona clearly don't have much of a voice at the Arizona State Capital. Less than a week before the award ceremony on March 17th, Arizona Senate Republicans passed a budget with the 'steepest cuts' delegated to public education:
"The steepest cuts are to education. Universities are targeted to lose 26 percent of their state funding; K-12 education faces reductions of about 7 percent, even as money from a temporary sales tax is being collected in the name of preventing deep cuts to K-12 education."
Seriously?
Trying to solve the problems of today by short changing our childrens' chance of a better tomorrow is folly! We need the generations coming up to be fully educated, engaged, critical thinking individuals prepared to face the steep challenges that await them! This is the least we can do for them... and the true definition of 'National Security'.
- Jeff
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